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

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

Browne, Harry

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Winkler, Henry

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

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

Powell, John Enoch

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

Simmons, Joe

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Hunt, Roy L.

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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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They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Warhol, Andy

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Orwell, George

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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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We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Robertson, Walter S.

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

Brown, Les

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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I am responsible for everything except for my very responsibility, for I am not the foundation of my being. Therefore everything takes place as if I were compelled to be responsible. I am abandoned in the world... in the sense that I find myself suddenly alone and without help, engaged in a world for which I bear the whole responsibility without being able, whatever I do, to tear myself away from this responsibility for an instant.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.

Proverb

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

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

King, Billie Jean

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

Maher, Bill

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Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Aristotle

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Responsibility is the price of greatness.

Churchill, Winston

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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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One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice president, and that one word is to be prepared.