Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

Simmons, Joe

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

Powell, John Enoch

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

Schweitzer, Albert

Responsibility is the price of greatness.

Churchill, Winston

Only you can hold yourself back, only you can stand in your own way. Only you can help yourself.

Strabo, Mikhail

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Newman, Mildred

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

Brown, Les

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

10.

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

11.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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In dreams begin responsibility.

Yeats, William Butler

15.

Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

16.

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

Shula, Don

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

Robertson, Walter S.

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You take on the responsibility for making your dream a reality.

Brown, Les

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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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The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.

Proverb

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Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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

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

Allen, R. C.

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Briscoe, Stuart

28.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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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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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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A human being's first responsibility is to shake hands with himself.

Winkler, Henry

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

James, Cyril

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Nobody can do it for you.

Cordiner, Ralph

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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

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Orwell, George

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

Tecumseh

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

45.

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

Carlzon, Jan

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that's the day you start to the top.