Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

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Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Good men prefer to be accountable.

Edwardes, Michael

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

If you load responsibility on a man unworthy of it he will always betray himself.

Heckscher, August

The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.

Proverb

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

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

Responsibility is the price of greatness.

Churchill, Winston

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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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We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

Hay, Louise L.

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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 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

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

Shula, Don

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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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Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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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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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Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Orwell, George

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Accountability breeds response-ability.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Didion, Joan

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

Hunt, Roy L.

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

James, Cyril

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

Powell, John Enoch

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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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

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You take on the responsibility for making your dream a reality.

Brown, Les

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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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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 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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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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No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

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No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

Hill, Napoleon

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Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Robbins, Anthony

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Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Stoppard, Tom

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

Winkler, Henry

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

Briscoe, Stuart

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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.