Quotes about responsibility

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

Simmons, Joe on responsibility   

"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. on responsibility   

"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 on responsibility   

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander on responsibility   

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander on responsibility   

"Nothing strengthens the judgement and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility."

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady on responsibility
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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 on responsibility   

"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 on responsibility   

"Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them."

Stoppard, Tom on responsibility   

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

Strabo, Mikhail on responsibility
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"From my tribe I take nothing I am the maker of my own fortune."

Tecumseh on responsibility   

"As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is up to us."

Toynbee, Arnold on responsibility   

"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 on responsibility   

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo on responsibility   

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

Unknown, Source on responsibility   

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

Unknown, Source on responsibility   

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

Unknown, Source on responsibility   

"No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood."

Unknown, Source on responsibility   

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

Waitley, Denis on responsibility   

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

Waitley, Denis on responsibility   

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

Warhol, Andy on responsibility
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"Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life."

Wilson, Woodrow T. on responsibility   

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

Winkler, Henry on responsibility   

"In dreams begin responsibility."

Yeats, William Butler on 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 on responsibility   

"Living things take priority over non-living things."

Little, Meg on responsibility   

"“The most important wings on an airplane are on the pilot”"

T. Allen McArtor on responsibility   

"Responsibility is the ability to give a response, that is, an answer for what I have or have not done. Essentially, responsibility means maturity."

Vanderlinden, Natasha on responsibility