Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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.

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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

No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Stoppard, Tom

No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

Responsibility is the price of greatness.

Churchill, Winston

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

Tecumseh

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

Bach, Richard

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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

14.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Massie, Allan

16.

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

Powell, John Enoch

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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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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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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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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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Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing... they themselves must in the very nature of things be their own best helpers.

Smiles, Samuel

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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.

Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Milgram, Stanley

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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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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

30.

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

Brown, Les

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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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

35.

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

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

Carlzon, Jan

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The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.

Proverb

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Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

Wilson, Woodrow T.