Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

- James, Cyril

Best Quotes about Responsibility

Each is responsible for his own actions.

Hunt, H. L.

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity an obligation; every possession, a duty.

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Warhol, Andy

Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

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

Maher, Bill

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

One must care about a world one will not see.

Russell, Bertrand

10.

Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Robbins, Anthony

11.

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

12.

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

Aristotle

13.

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

Winkler, Henry

15.

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

16.

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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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

18.

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

Didion, Joan

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

Powell, John Enoch

21.

Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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

23.

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

24.

The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.

Proverb

25.

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

Hunt, Roy L.

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No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

Hill, Napoleon

27.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

28.

I know that no one can really stop me but myself and that really no one can help me but myself.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

29.

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.

30.

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

31.

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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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.

34.

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

James, Cyril

35.

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

Browne, Harry

37.

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

Bible

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Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Stoppard, Tom

40.

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

Scott, Sir Walter

42.

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

Hill, Napoleon

43.

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

Simmons, Joe

44.

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

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

Brown, Les

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

Briscoe, Stuart

49.

From my tribe I take nothing I am the maker of my own fortune.

Tecumseh

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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.