Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

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Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

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

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

Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Robbins, Anthony

The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.

Hunt, Roy L.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

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.

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

Shula, Don

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The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.

Proverb

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

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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 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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Accountability breeds response-ability.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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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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All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

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

Briscoe, Stuart

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Maher, Bill

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

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Winkler, Henry

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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 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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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

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Gordimer, Nadine

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

Robertson, Walter S.