Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

- Simmons, Joe

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

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

Warhol, Andy

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Brown, Les

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

Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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One must care about a world one will not see.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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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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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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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

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Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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We are responsible for actions performed in response to circumstances for which we are not responsible.

Massie, Allan

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

Tecumseh

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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If people concentrated on their responsibilities, others would have their rights.

Briscoe, Stuart

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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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The important thing is to concentrate upon what you can do -- by yourself, upon your own initiative.

Browne, Harry

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

Milgram, Stanley

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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Accountability breeds response-ability.

Covey, Stephen R.

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No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

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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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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Gordimer, Nadine

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

Robertson, Walter S.

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

Hunt, Roy L.

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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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Nobody can do it for you.

Cordiner, Ralph

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

Maher, Bill

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Each is responsible for his own actions.