Quotes about Responsibility

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment and learn again to exercise ... his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.

Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.

If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.

We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday's burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.

Within the first few months I discovered that being a president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or be swallowed.

I beg leave to assure the Congress that no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this arduous employment at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness. I do not wish to make any profit from it.

The buck stops here.

One of the greatest evils of the day among those outside of prison is their sense of futility. Young people say, What is the sense of our small effort? They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time; we can be responsible only for the one action of the present moment.

If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.

There is no such thing as concealment. Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.

Courageous leaders face unpleasant and even devastating situations with equanimity, then act firmly to bring good from trouble, even if their action is unpopular. Leadership always faces natural human inertia and opposition. But courage follows through with a task until it is done.