Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

- Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

Warhol, Andy

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

Shula, Don

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

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

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

Powell, John Enoch

In dreams begin responsibility.

Yeats, William Butler

No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Maher, Bill

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Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Accountability breeds response-ability.

Covey, Stephen R.

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The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.

Proverb

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

Robertson, Walter S.

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

Moliere

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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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Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Aristotle

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Simmons, Joe

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

Tecumseh

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

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

Massie, Allan

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

Heckscher, August

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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

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

Briscoe, Stuart

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Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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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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All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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