Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will -- his personal responsibility.

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Allen, R. C.

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

Rohn, Jim

Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Robbins, Anthony

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.

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

Browne, Harry

Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Gordimer, Nadine

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

Powell, John Enoch

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

Brown, Les

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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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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 price of greatness.

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Hunt, Roy L.

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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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Accountability breeds response-ability.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Brown, Les

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Good men prefer to be accountable.

Edwardes, Michael

31.

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

Robertson, Walter S.

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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 must care about a world one will not see.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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You take on the responsibility for making your dream a reality.

Brown, Les

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

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

Briscoe, Stuart

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

James, Cyril

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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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No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

Hay, Louise L.

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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

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

Winkler, Henry