Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

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

Only you can hold yourself back, only you can stand in your own way. Only you can help yourself.

Strabo, Mikhail

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

Waitley, Denis

The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.

Proverb

Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Shula, Don

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

Tecumseh

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

10.

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

Warhol, Andy

11.

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

Moliere

12.

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

Allen, R. C.

13.

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

King, Billie Jean

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Maher, Bill

17.

Each is responsible for his own actions.

Hunt, H. L.

18.

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

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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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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

21.

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

Brown, Les

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

Massie, Allan

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

Aristotle

25.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Bach, Richard

31.

Good men prefer to be accountable.

Edwardes, Michael

32.

In dreams begin responsibility.

Yeats, William Butler

33.

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

Winkler, Henry

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

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

39.

A free man is as jealous of his responsibilities as he is of his liberties.

James, Cyril

40.

Nobody can do it for you.

Cordiner, Ralph

41.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Briscoe, Stuart

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Responsibility is the price of greatness.

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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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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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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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