Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

- Wilson, Woodrow T.

Best Quotes about Responsibility

Good men prefer to be accountable.

Edwardes, Michael

Nothing strengthens the judgement and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

To shun one's cross is to make it heavier.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

The important thing is to concentrate upon what you can do -- by yourself, upon your own initiative.

Browne, Harry

To be a man is to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the sight of what seems to be unmerited misery. It is to take pride in a victory won by one's comrades. It is to feel, when setting one's stone, that one is contributing to the building of the world.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice president, and that one word is to be prepared.

Quayle, Dan

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.

Depree, Max

Everyone has a responsibility to not only tolerate another person's point of view, but also to accept it eagerly as a challenge to your own understanding. And express those challenges in terms of serving other people.

Guthrie, Arlo

A man carries his success or his failure with him, it does not depend on outside conditions.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

10.

From my tribe I take nothing I am the maker of my own fortune.

Tecumseh

11.

I am responsible for everything except for my very responsibility, for I am not the foundation of my being. Therefore everything takes place as if I were compelled to be responsible. I am abandoned in the world... in the sense that I find myself suddenly alone and without help, engaged in a world for which I bear the whole responsibility without being able, whatever I do, to tear myself away from this responsibility for an instant.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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I guess more players lick themselves that are ever licked by an opposing team. The first thing any man has to know is how to handle himself.

Mack, Connie

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We are accountable only to ourselves for what happens to us in our lives.

Newman, Mildred

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Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.

Channing, William Ellery

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Each of us has the right and the responsibility to asses the road which lie ahead and those over which we have traveled, and if the feature road looms ominous or unpromising, and the road back uninviting-inviting, then we need to gather our resolve and carrying only the necessary baggage, step off that road into another direction. If the new choice is also unpalatable, without embarrassment, we must be ready to change that one as well.

Angelou, Maya

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You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

Hill, Napoleon

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We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

Reagan, Ronald

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Psychologically I should say that a person becomes an adult at the point when he produces more than he consumes or earns more than he spends. This may be a the age of eighteen, twenty-five, or thirty-five. Some people remain unproductive and dependent children forever and therefore intellectually and emotionally immature.

Link, Henry C.

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You take on the responsibility for making your dream a reality.

Brown, Les

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Champions take responsibility. When the ball is coming over the net, you can be sure I want the ball.

King, Billie Jean

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We have a Bill of rights. What we need is a Bill of responsibilities.

Maher, Bill

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No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

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We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.

Scott, Sir Walter

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I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity an obligation; every possession, a duty.

Rockefeller, John D.

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All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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If you load responsibility on a man unworthy of it he will always betray himself.

Heckscher, August

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I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life. Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have ? life itself.

Anderson, Walter

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Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.

Waitley, Denis

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You have to do it yourself, no one else will do it for you. You must work out your own salvation.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, gives us manhood or womanhood fiber.

Crane, Frank

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Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will -- his personal responsibility.

Schweitzer, Albert

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Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Orwell, George

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Each is responsible for his own actions.

Hunt, H. L.

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The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.

Milgram, Stanley

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I was taught very early that I would have to depend entirely upon myself; that my future lay in my own hands.

Mills, Darius Ogden

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You must choose the thoughts and actions that will lead you on to success.

Allen, R. C.

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No man was ever endowed with a right without being at the same time saddled with a responsibility.

Johnson, Gerald W.

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Only you can hold yourself back, only you can stand in your own way. Only you can help yourself.

Strabo, Mikhail

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God, Private Enterprise and government have made me what I am, and now they have to take some of the blame.

Baluch, Joy

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Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you, never excuse yourself.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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I don't remember, I didn't do it. That's my story, and I'm sticking to it

Simmons, Joe

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Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.

Brown, Les

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Unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall much be required. [Luke 12:48]

Bible

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Nothing happens by itself. It all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions.

Stein, Ben

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Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Robbins, Anthony

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We are responsible for actions performed in response to circumstances for which we are not responsible.

Massie, Allan

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The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

Didion, Joan

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The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.

Tracy, Brian