Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

- Brown, Les

Best Quotes about Responsibility

Responsibility is the price of greatness.

Churchill, Winston

Each is responsible for his own actions.

Hunt, H. L.

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

Brown, Les

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

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

Brecht, Bertolt

One must care about a world one will not see.

Russell, Bertrand

Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Gordimer, Nadine

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

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

12.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

14.

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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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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You must choose the thoughts and actions that will lead you on to success.

Allen, R. C.

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

Shula, Don

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Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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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The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.

Proverb

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

Briscoe, Stuart

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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

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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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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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Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Orwell, George

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

Brown, Les

27.

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

Browne, Harry

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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

31.

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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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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Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Robbins, Anthony

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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

35.

No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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

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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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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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We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Didion, Joan

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Nobody can do it for you.

Cordiner, Ralph

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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 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