best quotations about
Responsibility |
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Quotations
 | Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well. — Dwight Eisenhower, 1890-1969, American general & President 21 likes |
 | Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong. — Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Prime Minister, Nobel 1953 17 likes |
 | No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec, 1906-1966, Polish author of maxims 14 likes |
 | Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility. — Sigmund Freud, 1856-1939, Austrian psychologist, founder of psychoanalysis 13 likes |
 | When the decision is up before you-and on my desk I have a motto which says “The buck stops here” -the decision has to be made. — Harry Truman, 1884-1972, American President [1945-1953] 8 likes |
 | Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. — George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish writer, Nobel 1925 6 likes |
 | Responsibility is the price of freedom. — Elbert Hubbard, 1856-1915, American writer 6 likes |
| The price of greatness is responsibility. — Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Prime Minister, Nobel 1953 5 likes |
 | Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame. — Erica Jong, 1942-, American writer 5 likes |
 | Nobility obligates. Noblesse oblige. — Duc de Levis, 1764-1830, French politician & author of maxims (meaning: nobility or a high position extends beyond titles and requires fulfillment of social responsibilities especially in leadership roles) 4 likes |
 | Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility. — Charles de Gaulle, 1890-1970, French President 4 likes |
| Three of life's most important areas: work, love, and taking responsibility. — Sigmund Freud, 1856-1939, Austrian psychologist, founder of psychoanalysis 4 likes |
 | The margin is narrow, but the responsibility is clear. — John Kennedy, 1917-1963, American President [1961-1963] 3 likes |
| If not us, who? If not now, when? — John Kennedy, 1917-1963, American President [1961-1963] 3 likes |
 | Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility. — Peter Drucker, 1909–2005, Austrian management guru 3 likes |
| Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them. — Elbert Hubbard, 1856-1915, American writer 3 likes |
 | There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this: Deny your responsibility. — Lyndon Johnson, 1908-1973, American President [1963-1969] (about withdrawing from Vietnam) 3 likes |
 | To be a man is to be responsible: to be ashamed of miseries you did not cause; to be proud of your comrades' victories; to be aware, when setting one stone, that you are building a world. — Antoin de Saint-Exupéry, 1900-1940, French writer 3 likes |
 | You are not a failure until you start blaming others for your mistakes. — John Wooden, 1910-2010, American basketball coach 3 likes |
 | The mark of the neurotic: to imagine that you're the only one who cares deeply for anything. — Mignon McLaughlin, 1913-1983, American magazine editor 2 likes |
| One day you are an apprentice, and everybody’s pet; the next, you are coldly expected to deliver. There is never sufficient warning that the second day is coming. — Mignon McLaughlin, 1913-1983, American magazine editor 2 likes |
| We did not choose to be the guardians of the gate, but there is no one else. — Lyndon Johnson, 1908-1973, American President [1963-1969] 2 likes |
| You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. — Antoin de Saint-Exupéry, 1900-1940, French writer 2 likes |
 | One of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual responsibility is the difficulty of finding somebody to blame your problems on. — P.J. O’ Rourke, 1947-2022, American columnist & writer 2 likes |
 | We seem to be getting closer and closer to a situation where nobody is responsible for what they did, but we are all responsible for what somebody else did. |
| Maturity is not a matter of age. You have matured when you are no longer concerned with showing how clever you are, and give your full attention to getting the job done right. Many never reach that stage, no matter how old they get. |
 | I recommend that the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the West Coast. |
 | I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done. |
| No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path. |
 | A mother, who is really a mother, is never free. |
 | We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse. |
 | Those who can command themselves command others. |
 | It is not for me to judge another man's life. I must judge, I must choose, I must spurn, purely for myself. For myself, alone. |
 | All the shrewdness of “man” seeks one thing: to be able to live without responsibility. |
| 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. |
| It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong. |
Funny Quotes
 | Life's a lot more fun when you're not responsible for your actions. — Bill Watterson, 1958-, American cartoonist 3 likes |
Ancient Greek
 | A king and a general has many cares. Πόλλ’ ανδρί βασιλεί και στρατηλάτη μέλει. — Euripides, 480-406 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian ‐ Iphigeneia at Aulis 4 likes |
