Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

You have to do it yourself, no one else will do it for you. You must work out your own salvation.

- Popplestone, Charles E.

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

Hunt, Roy L.

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

Shula, Don

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

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

Newman, Mildred

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

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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.

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

Brown, Les

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

Warhol, Andy

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Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Robbins, Anthony

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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

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

Heckscher, August

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

Winkler, Henry

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Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Stoppard, Tom

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

Milgram, Stanley

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Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will -- his personal responsibility.

Schweitzer, Albert

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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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In dreams begin responsibility.

Yeats, William Butler

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

Bach, Richard

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

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

Moliere

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Responsibility is the price of greatness.

Churchill, Winston

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

Robertson, Walter S.

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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Gordimer, Nadine

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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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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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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

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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

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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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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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No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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

Waitley, Denis

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No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

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Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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