Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

- Massie, Allan

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

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

Briscoe, Stuart

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

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

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

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

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

No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

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

Hunt, Roy L.

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

Maher, Bill

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Tecumseh

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

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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Accountability breeds response-ability.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Milgram, Stanley

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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

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

Browne, Harry

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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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One must care about a world one will not see.

Russell, Bertrand

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Each is responsible for his own actions.

Hunt, H. L.

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

Didion, Joan

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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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It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do for which we are accountable.

Moliere

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Warhol, Andy

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

Heckscher, August

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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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We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

Hay, Louise L.

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