Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

- Brecht, Bertolt

Best Quotes about Responsibility

All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

Winkler, Henry

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

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

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

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

Maher, Bill

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

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Orwell, George

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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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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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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

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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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Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Stoppard, Tom

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

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Accept the consequences of your actions in order to become the agent of your mental, physical, spiritual and material success.

Brown, Les

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Bible

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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In dreams begin responsibility.

Yeats, William Butler

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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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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Gordimer, Nadine

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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

Carlzon, Jan

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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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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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Nobody can do it for you.

Cordiner, Ralph

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

Aristotle

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No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Brown, Les

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Freedom is a package deal -- with it comes responsibilities and consequences.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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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

46.

The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.

Proverb

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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One must care about a world one will not see.

Russell, Bertrand

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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