Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

- Orwell, George

Best Quotes about Responsibility

Only you can hold yourself back, only you can stand in your own way. Only you can help yourself.

Strabo, Mikhail

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

Hunt, Roy L.

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

James, Cyril

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

Johnson, Gerald W.

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

King, Billie Jean

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

Powell, John Enoch

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

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

Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Stoppard, Tom

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Winkler, Henry

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The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others.

Shula, Don

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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.

Brown, Les

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

Quayle, Dan

18.

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

Heckscher, August

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

Brown, Les

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Brown, Les

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The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.

Proverb

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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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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 choose the thoughts and actions that will lead you on to success.

Allen, R. C.

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No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Carlzon, Jan

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Good men prefer to be accountable.

Edwardes, Michael

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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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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Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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