Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

One must care about a world one will not see.

- Russell, Bertrand

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

Aristotle

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Brown, Les

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Orwell, George

No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

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

Winkler, Henry

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

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

10.

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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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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Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.

Proverb

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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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Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Stoppard, Tom

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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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As novices, we think we're entirely responsible for the way people treat us. I have long since learned that we are responsible only for the way we treat people.

Lane, Rose Wilder

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Each is responsible for his own actions.

Hunt, H. L.

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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

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

Newman, Mildred

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Scott, Sir Walter

26.

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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One must care about a world one will not see.

Russell, Bertrand

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We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

Hay, Louise L.

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Accountability breeds response-ability.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Maher, Bill

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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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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 will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions.

Powell, John Enoch

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Warhol, Andy

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

Waitley, Denis

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

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

41.

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

Tecumseh

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

Milgram, Stanley

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

Allen, R. C.

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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

Simmons, Joe

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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Gordimer, Nadine

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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