Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

- Didion, Joan

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

Allen, R. C.

Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Stoppard, Tom

Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

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

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

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

King, Billie Jean

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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

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Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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 man was ever endowed with a right without being at the same time saddled with a responsibility.

Johnson, Gerald W.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

19.

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

Bach, Richard

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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

21.

All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Moliere

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The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.

Proverb

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Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Orwell, George

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

Briscoe, Stuart

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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

Tecumseh

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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

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

Browne, Harry

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

Waitley, Denis

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

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Nobody can do it for you.

Cordiner, Ralph

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

Brown, Les

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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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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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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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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.