Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

I know that no one can really stop me but myself and that really no one can help me but myself.

- Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

Best Quotes about Responsibility

The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others.

Shula, Don

A human being's first responsibility is to shake hands with himself.

Winkler, Henry

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

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for finding himself. If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.

Merton, Thomas

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

Milgram, Stanley

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.

Frankl, Viktor E.

Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Stoppard, Tom

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

Massie, Allan

10.

Good men prefer to be accountable.

Edwardes, Michael

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In dreams begin responsibility.

Yeats, William Butler

12.

No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

13.

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

14.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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No one will improve your lot if you do not yourself.

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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Accountability breeds response-ability.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Responsibility is the price of greatness.

Churchill, Winston

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

Allen, R. C.

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Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing... they themselves must in the very nature of things be their own best helpers.

Smiles, Samuel

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The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.

Hunt, Roy L.

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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

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A free man is as jealous of his responsibilities as he is of his liberties.

James, Cyril

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Each is responsible for his own actions.

Hunt, H. L.

29.

When we have begun to take charge of our lives, to own ourselves, there is no longer any need to ask permission of someone.

O'Neil, George

30.

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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An individual without information can't take responsibility. An individual with information can't help but take responsibility.

Carlzon, Jan

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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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Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.

Stirner, Max

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If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.

Brown, Les

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You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

Rohn, Jim

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Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do for which we are accountable.

Moliere

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Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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The only way to get rid of responsibilities is to discharge them.

Robertson, Walter S.

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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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I know that no one can really stop me but myself and that really no one can help me but myself.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Maher, Bill

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The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that's the day you start to the top.

Simpson, O. J.

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No one will dare maintain that it is better to do injustice than to bear it.

Aristotle

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

Newman, Mildred

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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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Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility. In the final analysis, the only quality that all successful people have is the ability to take on responsibility.

Korda, Michael