Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

- Rockefeller, John D.

Best Quotes about Responsibility

Accept the consequences of your actions in order to become the agent of your mental, physical, spiritual and material success.

Brown, Les

I don't remember, I didn't do it. That's my story, and I'm sticking to it

Simmons, Joe

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

The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.

Proverb

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Johnson, Gerald W.

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

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

Maher, Bill

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

Bach, Richard

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

Newman, Mildred

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Hunt, Roy L.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

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Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Orwell, George

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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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Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Stoppard, Tom

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Each is responsible for his own actions.

Hunt, H. L.

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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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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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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

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Responsibility is the price of greatness.

Churchill, Winston

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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 superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others.

Shula, Don

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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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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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Nobody can do it for you.

Cordiner, Ralph

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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Gordimer, Nadine

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Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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One must care about a world one will not see.

Russell, Bertrand

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Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Robbins, Anthony

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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.