Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

- Hunt, Roy L.

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Orwell, George

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

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

Newman, Mildred

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

Brown, Les

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

Milgram, Stanley

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In dreams begin responsibility.

Yeats, William Butler

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

14.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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

Winkler, Henry

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Shula, Don

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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

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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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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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Each is responsible for his own actions.

Hunt, H. L.

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

Briscoe, Stuart

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

James, Cyril

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

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

Quayle, Dan

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

Bible

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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