Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

An individual without information can't take responsibility. An individual with information can't help but take responsibility.

- Carlzon, Jan

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

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

Baluch, Joy

Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Didion, Joan

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

Massie, Allan

Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Gordimer, Nadine

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

Bach, Richard

No one will dare maintain that it is better to do injustice than to bear it.

Aristotle

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

10.

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

Scott, Sir Walter

11.

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

12.

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

Brown, Les

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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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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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Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Stoppard, Tom

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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

19.

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

Robertson, Walter S.

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A human being's first responsibility is to shake hands with himself.

Winkler, Henry

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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

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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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Good men prefer to be accountable.

Edwardes, Michael

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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An individual without information can't take responsibility. An individual with information can't help but take responsibility.

Carlzon, Jan

32.

The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.

Proverb

33.

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

Powell, John Enoch

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

Tecumseh

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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Responsibility is the price of greatness.

Churchill, Winston

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

Waitley, Denis

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Each is responsible for his own actions.

Hunt, H. L.

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

Brown, Les

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No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

Hill, Napoleon

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

45.

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

46.

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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Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Orwell, George

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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

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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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Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert