Famously Said Random quote

Quotes about responsibility

87 quotes from 73 people

Most readBy personPage 1 of 6

The United States stands at the pinnacle of world power. This is a solemn moment for the American democracy. For with primacy in power is joined an awe-inspiring accountability for the future.
Winston Churchill1874–1965
- America
Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn’t. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let me label you as they may.
Mark Twain1835–1910Papers of the Adam Family (1939), Part VI: “Two Fragments from a Suppressed Book Called ‘Glances at History’ or ‘Outlines of History’ “
Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.
Colin Powell1937–2021The Powell Principles (2003)
The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill1874–1965The Second World War (1939–1945)
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
George Bernard Shaw1856–1950Maxims for Revolutionists (1903), #25
- Liberty
Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility. In the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have is the ability to take on responsibility.
MKMichael Kordaborn 1933Success! (1977)
- Success
If an American is to amount to anything he must rely upon himself, and not upon the State; he must take pride in his own work, instead of sitting idle to envy the luck of others. He must face life with resolute courage, win victory if he can, and accept defeat if he must, without seeking to place on his fellow man a responsibility which is not theirs.
Theodore Roosevelt1858–1919
Errors are inevitable. The mark of character is not refusing to recognize them, but acknowledging them and taking responsibility.
Andrew Sullivanborn 1963
- Failure
Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.
Booker T. Washington1856–1915Up From Slavery (1901), Chapter XI: Making Their Beds Before They Could Lie On Them
Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them; power to the man who knows how.
Elbert Hubbard1856–1915“J.B. Runs Things,” Short Stories and Index: Elbert Hubbard’s Selected Writings, Part 14 (1923), p. 278
I repeat that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people, and for the people all springs, and all must exist.
Benjamin Disraeli1804–1881Vivian Grey (1826), Book VI, Chapter 7
- Power
There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.
POP. J. O'Rourke1947–2022The Liberty Manifesto (1993)
- Freedom
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.
Ronald Reagan1911–2004Speech at the Republican National Convention, Platform Committee Meeting, Miami, Florida” (31 July 1968)
- Laws
Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Thomas Carlyle1795–1881Signs of the Times (1829)
- Work
There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
Robert Louis Stevenson1850–1894Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)
- Happiness