Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

Nobody can do it for you.

- Cordiner, Ralph

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

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

Brown, Les

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

Moliere

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

Brecht, Bertolt

No man was ever endowed with a right without being at the same time saddled with a responsibility.

Johnson, Gerald W.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Heckscher, August

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

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

Massie, Allan

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

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Winkler, Henry

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

Maher, Bill

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

Newman, Mildred

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

Shula, Don

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

Waitley, Denis

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The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.

Proverb

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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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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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Accountability breeds response-ability.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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 will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions.

Powell, John Enoch

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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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As novices, we think we're entirely responsible for the way people treat us. I have long since learned that we are responsible only for the way we treat people.

Lane, Rose Wilder

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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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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

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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Gordimer, Nadine

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

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

Tecumseh

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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 dreams begin responsibility.

Yeats, William Butler

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

Didion, Joan

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

Brown, Les

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Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Robbins, Anthony

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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

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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 alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic