Responsibility By Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes & Sayings

Our children must learn ... to face full responsibility for their actions, to make their own choices and cope with the results ... the whole democratic system ... depends upon it. For our system is founded on self-government, which is untenable if the individuals who make up the system are unable to govern themselves. — Eleanor Roosevelt

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 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 his own weight, this is a frightening prospect. — Eleanor Roosevelt

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

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

I was brought up Catholic, and even as a little girl I was affected by the idea of giving back - doing something for the needy, something of significance. — Joan Ganz Cooney

Religion is always a patron of the arts, but its taste is by no means impeccable. — Aldous Huxley

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual you have an obligation to be one. — Eleanor Roosevelt

The choices we make are ultimately our responsibility. — Eleanor Roosevelt

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

meaning indifferent to the distinction between things. It is not, on the whole, that natural phenomena and entities themselves are disappearing; rather that there are fewer people able to name them, and that once they go unnamed they go to some degree unseen. Language deficit leads to attention deficit. As — Robert Macfarlane

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

I am not afraid that you will hurt me. If you do, the scars won't last for eternity. People hurt each other all the time. Especially when they care for each other. — Leah Thomas

From the slave ship to the citizenship we faced a lot of bullship — Amiri Baraka

Should I worship Him from fear of hell, may I be cast into it. Should I serve Him from desire of gaining heaven, may He keep me out. But should I worship Him from love alone, He reveals Himself to me, that my whole heart may be filled with His love and presence. — Sadhu Sundar Singh

You not only have a right to be an individual. You have a responsibility. — Eleanor Roosevelt

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 I believe intensely, much I am unsure of. But this, at least, I believe with all my heart: 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. Hyde — Eleanor Roosevelt

And often the result of daring greatly isn't a victory march as much as it is a quiet sense of freedom mixed with a little battle fatigue. — Brene Brown