Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

- Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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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

2.

Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

3.

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

Brown, Les

4.

Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

5.

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

Waitley, Denis

6.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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

8.

No man was ever endowed with a right without being at the same time saddled with a responsibility.

Johnson, Gerald W.

9.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

10.

In dreams begin responsibility.

Yeats, William Butler

11.

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

Brown, Les

12.

You have to do it yourself, no one else will do it for you. You must work out your own salvation.

Popplestone, Charles E.

13.

One must care about a world one will not see.

Russell, Bertrand

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Accountability breeds response-ability.

Covey, Stephen R.

15.

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

James, Cyril

16.

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

17.

Each is responsible for his own actions.

Hunt, H. L.

18.

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

19.

The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.

Proverb

20.

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

Moliere

21.

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

Winkler, Henry

22.

Accept the consequences of your actions in order to become the agent of your mental, physical, spiritual and material success.

Brown, Les

23.

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

Browne, Harry

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

Didion, Joan

25.

Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Stoppard, Tom

26.

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

27.

All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gandhi, Mahatma

28.

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

Shula, Don

29.

Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Robbins, Anthony

30.

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Orwell, George

31.

One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice president, and that one word is to be prepared.

Quayle, Dan

32.

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

33.

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

Maher, Bill

34.

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

Briscoe, Stuart

36.

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

Heckscher, August

37.

Be more aware of responsibility than you are of your rights.

38.

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.