Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

Responsibility is the price of greatness.

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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.

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

No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Champions take responsibility. When the ball is coming over the net, you can be sure I want the ball.

King, Billie Jean

We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

Hay, Louise L.

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

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

Bach, Richard

We are accountable only to ourselves for what happens to us in our lives.

Newman, Mildred

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

Allen, R. C.

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Nobody can do it for you.

Cordiner, Ralph

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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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The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Brown, Les

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

Heckscher, August

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Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Robbins, Anthony

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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 walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Robertson, Walter S.

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Accountability breeds response-ability.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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

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The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.

Proverb

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Browne, Harry

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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

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

Maher, Bill

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Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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In dreams begin responsibility.

Yeats, William Butler

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

Milgram, Stanley

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Briscoe, Stuart

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One must care about a world one will not see.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Brown, Les

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

Didion, Joan

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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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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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Responsibility is the price of greatness.

Churchill, Winston