Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes about Responsibility

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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.

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

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

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

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