Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes About Responsibility

Quotes about: Responsibility

• Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Growing Up, Freedom, 4th Of July

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.152, Westminster John Knox Press

• Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Motivational, Strength, Being Yourself

  "You Learn by Living".

• In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Life, Motivational, Running

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.12, Westminster John Knox Press

• Our children should learn the general framework of their government and then they should know where they come in contact with the government, where it touches their daily lives and where their influence is exerted on the government. It must not be a distant thing, someone else's business, but they must see how every cog in the wheel of a democracy is important and bears its share of responsibility for the smooth running of the entire machine.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Running, Children, Responsibility

• Curiously enough, it is often the people who refuse to assume any responsibility who are apt to be the sharpest critics of those who do.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Responsibility, People, Assuming

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.157, Westminster John Knox Press

• One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In stopping to think through the meaning of what I have learned, there is much that I believe intensely, much I am unsure of. In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And, the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Running, Philosophy, Believe

  "You Learn by Living" by Eleanor Roosevelt, (Foreword), 1960.

• The choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Being Yourself, Responsibility, Personal Accountability

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.12, Westminster John Knox Press

• This freedom of which men speak, for which they fight, seems to some people a perilous thing. It has to be earned at a bitter cost and then — it has to be lived with. For freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Freedom, Responsibility, Fighting

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.152, Westminster John Knox Press

• I know that given great responsibility men sometimes change, but Mr. Nixon's Presidency would worry me.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Responsibility, Men, Worry

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

• A democratic form of government, a democratic way of life, presupposes free public education over a long period; it presupposes also an education for personal responsibility that too often is neglected.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Education, Women, School

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1995). “What I Hope to Leave Behind: The Essential Essays of Eleanor Roosevelt”, Carlson Pub

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