Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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.

Best Quotes about Responsibility

Each is responsible for his own actions.

Hunt, H. L.

We are responsible for actions performed in response to circumstances for which we are not responsible.

Massie, Allan

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

Tecumseh

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

Waitley, Denis

We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Quayle, Dan

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

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

Brown, Les

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Brown, Les

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

Newman, Mildred

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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.

18.

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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Link, Henry C.

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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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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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Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Maher, Bill

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

Browne, Harry

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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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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Gordimer, Nadine

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

Milgram, Stanley

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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In dreams begin responsibility.

Yeats, William Butler

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Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Stoppard, Tom

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

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Good men prefer to be accountable.

Edwardes, 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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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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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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Nobody can do it for you.

Cordiner, Ralph

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

Robertson, Walter S.

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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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Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Orwell, George

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

Powell, John Enoch

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

Bach, Richard

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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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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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Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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