Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

- Brecht, Bertolt

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

Warhol, Andy

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.

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

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

Shula, Don

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

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

In dreams begin responsibility.

Yeats, William Butler

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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Responsibility is the price of greatness.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Didion, Joan

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Newman, Mildred

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

Hunt, Roy L.

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

Brown, Les

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

Robertson, Walter S.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Aristotle

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

Waitley, Denis

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Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Orwell, George

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

Maher, Bill

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

Briscoe, Stuart

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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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All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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 individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.