Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

Best Quotes about Responsibility

No man was ever endowed with a right without being at the same time saddled with a responsibility.

Johnson, Gerald W.

No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

In dreams begin responsibility.

Yeats, William Butler

Each is responsible for his own actions.

Hunt, H. L.

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

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

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

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

Brown, Les

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

James, Cyril

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Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Nobody can do it for you.

Cordiner, Ralph

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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

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We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

Hay, Louise L.

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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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Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Stoppard, Tom

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You have to do it yourself, no one else will do it for you. You must work out your own salvation.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

Maher, Bill

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Bible

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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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All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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

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

Newman, Mildred

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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Good men prefer to be accountable.

Edwardes, Michael

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

Waitley, Denis

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Accountability breeds response-ability.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Didion, Joan

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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

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Responsibility is the price of greatness.

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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One must care about a world one will not see.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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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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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