Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

- Waitley, Denis

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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

Brown, Les

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

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

James, Cyril

Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Gordimer, Nadine

The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.

Proverb

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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

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Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Stoppard, Tom

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Each is responsible for his own actions.

Hunt, H. L.

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The way to avoid responsibility is to say, I've got responsibilities.

Bach, Richard

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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No man was ever endowed with a right without being at the same time saddled with a responsibility.

Johnson, Gerald W.

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

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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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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

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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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Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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The important thing is to concentrate upon what you can do -- by yourself, upon your own initiative.

Browne, Harry

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

Maher, Bill

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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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One must care about a world one will not see.

Russell, Bertrand

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Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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 dare maintain that it is better to do injustice than to bear it.

Aristotle

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Waitley, Denis

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Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.

Brown, Les

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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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We are responsible for actions performed in response to circumstances for which we are not responsible.

Massie, Allan

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

Newman, Mildred