Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Browne, Harry

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

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

Winkler, Henry

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

Baluch, Joy

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

Brown, Les

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I will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions.

Powell, John Enoch

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One must care about a world one will not see.

Russell, Bertrand

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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

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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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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

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Accountability breeds response-ability.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Hunt, Roy L.

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

Bible

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

Robertson, Walter S.

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Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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Life's heaviest burden is to have nothing to carry.

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.

Proverb

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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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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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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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More power than all the success slogans ever penned by human hand is the realization for every man that he has but one boss. That boss is the man -- he -- himself.

Heatter, Gabriel

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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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All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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

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Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Robbins, Anthony

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Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Orwell, George

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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Gordimer, Nadine

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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.