Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

Best Quotes about Responsibility

All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gandhi, Mahatma

We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Brown, Les

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

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

One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice president, and that one word is to be prepared.

Quayle, Dan

Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Newman, Mildred

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Accountability breeds response-ability.

Covey, Stephen R.

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One must care about a world one will not see.

Russell, Bertrand

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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

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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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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Gordimer, Nadine

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No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Waitley, Denis

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No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

Hill, Napoleon

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Good men prefer to be accountable.

Edwardes, Michael

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Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Tecumseh

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

Bach, Richard

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

Milgram, Stanley

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In dreams begin responsibility.

Yeats, William Butler

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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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Each is responsible for his own actions.

Hunt, H. L.

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Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Hunt, Roy L.

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

Brown, Les

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Aristotle

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

Warhol, Andy

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Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Orwell, George

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

Shula, Don

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

Winkler, Henry

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

Bible

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

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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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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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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.