Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

- Stoppard, Tom

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Allen, R. C.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Carlzon, Jan

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

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

God, Private Enterprise and government have made me what I am, and now they have to take some of the blame.

Baluch, Joy

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

Scott, Sir Walter

10.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Each is responsible for his own actions.

Hunt, H. L.

12.

All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gandhi, Mahatma

13.

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

Quayle, Dan

14.

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

Newman, Mildred

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Responsibility is the price of greatness.

Churchill, Winston

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Accountability breeds response-ability.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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 burden one likes is cheerfully carried.

Proverb

19.

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

Moliere

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

Didion, Joan

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You must accept responsibility for your actions, but not the credit for your achievements.

Waitley, Denis

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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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As novices, we think we're entirely responsible for the way people treat us. I have long since learned that we are responsible only for the way we treat people.

Lane, Rose Wilder

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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

27.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Shula, Don

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

Warhol, Andy

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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

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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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One must care about a world one will not see.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Gordimer, Nadine

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Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Stoppard, Tom

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

Briscoe, Stuart

41.

In dreams begin responsibility.

Yeats, William Butler

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Orwell, George

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