Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

- Orwell, George

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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

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

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

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

Responsibility is the price of greatness.

Churchill, Winston

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

Bible

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We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Robertson, Walter S.

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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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No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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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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Nobody can do it for you.

Cordiner, Ralph

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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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Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Orwell, George

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Each is responsible for his own actions.

Hunt, H. L.

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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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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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Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.

Waitley, Denis

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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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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Gordimer, Nadine

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

Didion, Joan

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

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

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Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Brown, Les

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It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

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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

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

Brown, Les

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

Winkler, Henry

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

Shula, Don

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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 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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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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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