Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

- Waitley, Denis

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Didion, Joan

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

Hunt, Roy L.

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

Bach, Richard

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

Brown, Les

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

No one will dare maintain that it is better to do injustice than to bear it.

Aristotle

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

Browne, Harry

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In dreams begin responsibility.

Yeats, William Butler

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

14.

Each is responsible for his own actions.

Hunt, H. L.

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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

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

Briscoe, Stuart

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One must care about a world one will not see.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

Hill, Napoleon

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

25.

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

Milgram, Stanley

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We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Orwell, George

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

Maher, Bill

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

Bible

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

Allen, R. C.

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The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.

Proverb

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All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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.