Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

- Warhol, Andy

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

Brown, Les

Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Milgram, Stanley

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

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

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

Strabo, Mikhail

Nobody can do it for you.

Cordiner, Ralph

Accountability breeds response-ability.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Newman, Mildred

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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 price of greatness.

Churchill, Winston

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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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All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Bible

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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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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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Gordimer, Nadine

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No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

Hill, Napoleon

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Each is responsible for his own actions.

Hunt, H. L.

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

Moliere

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

Maher, Bill

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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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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 ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.

Hunt, Roy L.

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

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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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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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Each of us has the right and the responsibility to asses the road which lie ahead and those over which we have traveled, and if the feature road looms ominous or unpromising, and the road back uninviting-inviting, then we need to gather our resolve and carrying only the necessary baggage, step off that road into another direction. If the new choice is also unpalatable, without embarrassment, we must be ready to change that one as well.

Angelou, Maya

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

Robertson, Walter S.

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

Winkler, Henry

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

Browne, Harry

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One must care about a world one will not see.

Russell, Bertrand

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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 superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others.

Shula, Don

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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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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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We are responsible for actions performed in response to circumstances for which we are not responsible.

Massie, Allan

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

Briscoe, Stuart

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We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

Hay, Louise L.

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