Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

- Gordimer, Nadine

Best Quotes about Responsibility

Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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.

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

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

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

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

Brecht, Bertolt

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you, never excuse yourself.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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

Briscoe, Stuart

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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

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Good men prefer to be accountable.

Edwardes, Michael

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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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

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Nobody can do it for you.

Cordiner, Ralph

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All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Waitley, Denis

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No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

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

Hunt, Roy L.

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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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Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Orwell, George

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

Brown, Les

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Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Stoppard, Tom

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

Waitley, Denis

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

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

Browne, Harry

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

Brown, Les

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

Newman, Mildred

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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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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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In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for finding himself. If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.

Merton, Thomas

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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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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Accountability breeds response-ability.

Covey, Stephen R.

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