Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

- Trine, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

Baluch, Joy

The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.

Milgram, Stanley

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

Bible

Good men prefer to be accountable.

Edwardes, Michael

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

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

Carlzon, Jan

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

Shula, Don

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.

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

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

Powell, John Enoch

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

Newman, Mildred

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In dreams begin responsibility.

Yeats, William Butler

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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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Accountability breeds response-ability.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Heckscher, August

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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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No one will improve your lot if you do not yourself.

Brecht, Bertolt

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Nobody can do it for you.

Cordiner, Ralph

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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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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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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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One must care about a world one will not see.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Stoppard, Tom

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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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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No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

Hill, Napoleon

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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Gordimer, Nadine

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

Allen, R. C.

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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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Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Orwell, George

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

Waitley, Denis

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All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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The way to avoid responsibility is to say, I've got responsibilities.

Bach, Richard

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Each is responsible for his own actions.

Hunt, H. L.

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

Brown, Les

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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.