Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

Best Quotes about Responsibility

God, Private Enterprise and government have made me what I am, and now they have to take some of the blame.

Baluch, Joy

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

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

Brown, Les

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Orwell, George

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

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

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

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

Carlzon, Jan

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

James, Cyril

11.

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

Scott, Sir Walter

12.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Tecumseh

14.

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

15.

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

Allen, R. C.

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Unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall much be required. [Luke 12:48]

Bible

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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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Each is responsible for his own actions.

Hunt, H. L.

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

Powell, John Enoch

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

Newman, Mildred

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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

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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

25.

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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Good men prefer to be accountable.

Edwardes, Michael

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Johnson, Gerald W.

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

Warhol, Andy

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Nobody can do it for you.

Cordiner, Ralph

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Shula, Don

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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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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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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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You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Accountability breeds response-ability.

Covey, Stephen R.

43.

No one will improve your lot if you do not yourself.

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Gordimer, Nadine

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Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Stoppard, Tom

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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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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