Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

- Johnson, Gerald W.

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

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

Waitley, Denis

Good men prefer to be accountable.

Edwardes, Michael

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

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

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 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

Nobody can do it for you.

Cordiner, Ralph

10.

One must care about a world one will not see.

Russell, Bertrand

11.

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.

12.

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

Waitley, Denis

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Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

15.

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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Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Orwell, George

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Each is responsible for his own actions.

Hunt, H. L.

18.

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

19.

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

Aristotle

20.

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

21.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

Hill, Napoleon

24.

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

Didion, Joan

25.

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

Browne, Harry

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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

27.

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

King, Billie Jean

28.

The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.

Proverb

29.

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

Brown, Les

30.

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

Hill, Napoleon

31.

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

32.

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

Carlzon, Jan

33.

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

Scott, Sir Walter

34.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Hunt, Roy L.

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

Brown, Les

40.

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

James, Cyril

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

42.

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

Powell, John Enoch

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

Bible

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In dreams begin responsibility.

Yeats, William Butler