Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

I know that no one can really stop me but myself and that really no one can help me but myself.

- Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

Didion, Joan

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

I know that no one can really stop me but myself and that really no one can help me but myself.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Brown, Les

No man was ever endowed with a right without being at the same time saddled with a responsibility.

Johnson, Gerald W.

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

Browne, Harry

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.

10.

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

Aristotle

11.

No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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From my tribe I take nothing I am the maker of my own fortune.

Tecumseh

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

17.

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

Bible

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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

20.

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

Warhol, Andy

21.

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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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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We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

Hay, Louise L.

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No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

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Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Orwell, George

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All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Nobody can do it for you.

Cordiner, Ralph

28.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Each is responsible for his own actions.

Hunt, H. L.

31.

I don't remember, I didn't do it. That's my story, and I'm sticking to it

Simmons, Joe

32.

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

Winkler, Henry

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

Carlzon, Jan

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

Robertson, Walter S.

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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 superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others.

Shula, Don

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Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Robbins, Anthony

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

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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In dreams begin responsibility.

Yeats, William Butler

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A free man is as jealous of his responsibilities as he is of his liberties.

James, Cyril

48.

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

Maher, Bill

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A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with -- a man is what he makes of himself.

Bell, Alexander Graham

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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