Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

- Brown, Les

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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.

Nothing happens by itself. It all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions.

Stein, Ben

Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Good men prefer to be accountable.

Edwardes, Michael

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

Brown, Les

10.

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

Brown, Les

11.

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

Maher, Bill

14.

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

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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

18.

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

Brown, Les

19.

Responsibility is the price of greatness.

Churchill, Winston

20.

All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

23.

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

Warhol, Andy

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Unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall much be required. [Luke 12:48]

Bible

25.

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

Powell, John Enoch

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

Allen, R. C.

28.

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

Hunt, Roy L.

29.

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

Shula, Don

30.

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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No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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One must care about a world one will not see.

Russell, Bertrand

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Accountability breeds response-ability.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you, never excuse yourself.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Robertson, Walter S.

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

Tecumseh

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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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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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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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Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Orwell, George

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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.