Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

Heckscher, August

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

Massie, Allan

From my tribe I take nothing I am the maker of my own fortune.

Tecumseh

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

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

Good men prefer to be accountable.

Edwardes, Michael

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

Powell, John Enoch

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

Nobody can do it for you.

Cordiner, Ralph

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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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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

12.

The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.

Proverb

13.

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

Browne, Harry

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

Brown, Les

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

Rockefeller, John D.

16.

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

Didion, Joan

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

Waitley, Denis

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Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Orwell, George

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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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God, Private Enterprise and government have made me what I am, and now they have to take some of the blame.

Baluch, Joy

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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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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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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 superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others.

Shula, Don

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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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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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Responsibility is the price of greatness.

Churchill, Winston

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

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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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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One must care about a world one will not see.

Russell, Bertrand

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In dreams begin responsibility.

Yeats, William Butler

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No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

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

40.

Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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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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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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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The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.

Milgram, Stanley

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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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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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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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Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Stoppard, Tom

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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Gordimer, Nadine

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

Maher, Bill