Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

- James, Cyril

Best Quotes about Responsibility

In dreams begin responsibility.

Yeats, William Butler

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

One must care about a world one will not see.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Bible

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

They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Warhol, Andy

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

10.

The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.

Proverb

11.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

12.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

13.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

14.

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

Carlzon, Jan

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Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Orwell, George

16.

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

Strabo, Mikhail

17.

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

18.

You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.

Ford, Henry

19.

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

Hill, Napoleon

20.

Accountability breeds response-ability.

Covey, Stephen R.

21.

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

Simmons, Joe

22.

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

23.

We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

Hay, Louise L.

24.

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.

25.

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

Brown, Les

26.

Responsibility is the price of greatness.

Churchill, Winston

27.

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

28.

Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Gordimer, Nadine

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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

30.

Be more aware of responsibility than you are of your rights.

31.

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

Robertson, Walter S.

32.

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

James, Cyril

33.

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with -- a man is what he makes of himself.

Bell, Alexander Graham

34.

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.

35.

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

Quayle, Dan

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

Didion, Joan

39.

The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

40.

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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

Tecumseh

42.

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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If people concentrated on their responsibilities, others would have their rights.

Briscoe, Stuart

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Good men prefer to be accountable.

Edwardes, Michael

45.

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

Moliere

48.

You must accept responsibility for your actions, but not the credit for your achievements.

Waitley, Denis

49.

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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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