Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

- King, Billie Jean

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

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

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

Accept the consequences of your actions in order to become the agent of your mental, physical, spiritual and material success.

Brown, Les

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

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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

King, Billie Jean

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

Tecumseh

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

Briscoe, Stuart

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

Hunt, Roy L.

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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.

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Responsibility is the price of greatness.

Churchill, Winston

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

Simmons, Joe

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Each is responsible for his own actions.

Hunt, H. L.

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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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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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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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The way to avoid responsibility is to say, I've got responsibilities.

Bach, Richard

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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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Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Nobody can do it for you.

Cordiner, Ralph

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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If you load responsibility on a man unworthy of it he will always betray himself.

Heckscher, August

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

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One must care about a world one will not see.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Brown, Les

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Gordimer, Nadine

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No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.