Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Responsibility

Accountability breeds response-ability.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

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

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

Didion, Joan

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

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

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

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Nobody can do it for you.

Cordiner, Ralph

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All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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In dreams begin responsibility.

Yeats, William Butler

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

Bach, Richard

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

Milgram, Stanley

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Orwell, George

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Warhol, Andy

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The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.

Proverb

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

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

Brown, Les

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

Shula, Don

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Life's heaviest burden is to have nothing to carry.

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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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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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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We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

Hay, Louise L.

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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Gordimer, Nadine

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One must care about a world one will not see.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Hunt, Roy L.