Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

Briscoe, Stuart

It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Aristotle

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

Shula, Don

Everyone has a responsibility to not only tolerate another person's point of view, but also to accept it eagerly as a challenge to your own understanding. And express those challenges in terms of serving other people.

Guthrie, Arlo

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

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

Nobody can do it for you.

Cordiner, Ralph

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Orwell, George

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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

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Good men prefer to be accountable.

Edwardes, Michael

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

Didion, Joan

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

Brown, Les

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Responsibility is the price of greatness.

Churchill, Winston

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Gordimer, Nadine

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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 walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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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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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One must care about a world one will not see.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Tecumseh

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

Simmons, Joe

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Robertson, Walter S.

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I will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions.

Powell, John Enoch

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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

Allen, R. C.

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

37.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Brown, Les

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Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Hunt, Roy L.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Winkler, Henry

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Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will -- his personal responsibility.