Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

- Scott, Sir Walter

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

Good men prefer to be accountable.

Edwardes, Michael

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

Allen, R. C.

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

Moliere

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

Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Robbins, Anthony

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.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

10.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

14.

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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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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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

17.

Each is responsible for his own actions.

Hunt, H. L.

18.

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

Brown, Les

19.

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

Powell, John Enoch

20.

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

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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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No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

Hill, Napoleon

23.

In dreams begin responsibility.

Yeats, William Butler

24.

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

25.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

28.

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

Scott, Sir Walter

30.

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

Shula, Don

31.

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

Heckscher, August

32.

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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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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One must care about a world one will not see.

Russell, Bertrand

35.

Accountability breeds response-ability.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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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

38.

No one will dare maintain that it is better to do injustice than to bear it.

Aristotle

39.

Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Newman, Mildred

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