Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

- Baluch, Joy

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

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

It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do for which we are accountable.

Moliere

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

Milgram, Stanley

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

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

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Baluch, Joy

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

Bach, Richard

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Good men prefer to be accountable.

Edwardes, Michael

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Each is responsible for his own actions.

Hunt, H. L.

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I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Warhol, Andy

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

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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

Tecumseh

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Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Stoppard, Tom

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Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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 man carries his success or his failure with him, it does not depend on outside conditions.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Brown, Les

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Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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 man was ever endowed with a right without being at the same time saddled with a responsibility.

Johnson, Gerald W.

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

Robertson, Walter S.

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We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

Hay, Louise L.

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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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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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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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Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Robbins, Anthony

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

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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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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 individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

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

Schweitzer, Albert