Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

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

If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.

Brown, Les

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

I don't remember, I didn't do it. That's my story, and I'm sticking to it

Simmons, Joe

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

Maher, Bill

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Gordimer, Nadine

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

Allen, R. C.

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

Heckscher, August

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

Bible

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

Briscoe, Stuart

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

James, Cyril

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

Waitley, Denis

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

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

Robertson, Walter S.

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

Brown, Les

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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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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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Accountability breeds response-ability.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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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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A man carries his success or his failure with him, it does not depend on outside conditions.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Each is responsible for his own actions.

Hunt, H. L.

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

Winkler, Henry

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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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Nobody can do it for you.

Cordiner, Ralph

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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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Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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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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One must care about a world one will not see.