Wendell Phillips Quotes

Anything which tends to bring a greater sense of responsibility to individuals should be encouraged.

Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.

In your pursuit of your passions, always be young. In your relationship with others, always be grown-up. Set a standard, and stay faithful to it.

Going to school is cool, being accountable is cool, being responsible is cool. Those things are the cool things to do.

Once you realize that you're in something that you've always wanted and you don't want to lose it, you behave differently. And that means the integrity, the professionalism, and knowing what's right from wrong and still making choices that you probably wouldn't have made.

Maturity: Be able to stick with a job until it is finished. Be able to bear an injustice without having to get even. Be able to carry money without spending it. Do your duty without being supervised.

Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.

Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, gives us manhood or womanhood fiber.

You need responsibility in life.

Most of us don't mind doing what we ought to do when it doesn't interfere with what we want to do, but it takes discipline and maturity to do what we ought to do whether we want to or not.

My father instilled attention to detail and a sense of duty and responsibility.

He instilled in me to be patient and understanding - my father would always hold me accountable, he taught me the importance of following things through, being responsible.

When I was younger I got accused of gamesmanship but I grew out of it.

Basically, discipline, effort, patience and courage are hugely important core values for kids to grow up embracing.

I have a strong head on my shoulders... I've always been grounded. People would think not because of who I am, but I've always been raised with that sense of morals from my dad and my mother.

Responsiblity is the great developer of men.

As we make and keep commitments, even small commitments, we begin to establish an inner integrity that gives us the awareness of self-control and the courage and strength to accept more of the responsibility for our own lives. By making and keeping promises to ourselves and others, little by little, our honor becomes greater than our moods.

The things I really learned, I learned from watching my parents. They take care of business. Always have.

I think that's good that I have to watch how I act and what I say. I think that's a part of growing up.

I fought for the values of responsibility, and I'm not a man who does not accept his responsibilities.

I sometimes let people down, especially when I was younger. I was cavalier about what people told me. Part of growing up is learning when to shut up.

A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

There's a need for accepting responsibility - for a person's life and making choices that are not just ones for immediate short-term comfort. You need to make an investment, and the investment is in health and education.

In order to be responsible, you need some discipline in your life.