Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

- Strabo, Mikhail

Best Quotes about Responsibility

One must care about a world one will not see.

Russell, Bertrand

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

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

Waitley, Denis

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

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

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

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

Briscoe, Stuart

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Didion, Joan

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

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

Heckscher, August

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

Shula, Don

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

Maher, Bill

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

Powell, John Enoch

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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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Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Stoppard, Tom

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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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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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Each is responsible for his own actions.

Hunt, H. L.

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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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Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Orwell, George

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

Warhol, Andy

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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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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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Life's heaviest burden is to have nothing to carry.

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

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All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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