Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

- Holland, Josiah Gilbert

Best Quotes about Responsibility

An individual without information can't take responsibility. An individual with information can't help but take responsibility.

Carlzon, Jan

The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.

Proverb

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

It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do for which we are accountable.

Moliere

One must care about a world one will not see.

Russell, Bertrand

Only you can hold yourself back, only you can stand in your own way. Only you can help yourself.

Strabo, Mikhail

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Shula, Don

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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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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To shun one's cross is to make it heavier.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

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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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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

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

Bible

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

Brown, Les

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

Warhol, Andy

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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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Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Good men prefer to be accountable.

Edwardes, Michael

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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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The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.

Milgram, Stanley

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

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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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Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Robertson, Walter S.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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Nobody can do it for you.

Cordiner, Ralph

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

Briscoe, Stuart

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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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Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Stoppard, Tom

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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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Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Orwell, George

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

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

Johnson, Gerald W.

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No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

Hill, Napoleon

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