Hyman Rickover Quotes

Responsibility is a unique concept... You may share it with others, but your portion is not diminished. You may delegate it, but it is still with you... If responsibility is rightfully yours, no evasion, or ignorance or passing the blame can shift the burden to someone else. Unless you can point your finger at the man who is responsible when something goes wrong, then you have never had anyone really responsible.

With freedom goes responsibility, a responsibility that can only be met by the individual himself.

The great escape of our times is escape from personal responsibility for the consequences of one's own behavior.

A common lament of the World War II generation is the absence today of personal responsibility

Start with the notion that yours is the sole responsibility unless there's powerful evidence to the contrary

No one is responsible under liberalism.

People need responsibility. They resist assuming it, but they cannot get along without it.

It is pretty hard to talk about responsibility unless you have exercised it yourself.

Responsibility cannot be shared.

Responsibility does not only lie with the leaders of our countries or with those who have been appointed or elected to do a particular job. It lies with each of us individually.

We must not fail, individually, for if we fail, we fail twice - for ourselves and for those who could have been helped, if we had done our duty.

Eventually we all have to accept full and total responsibility for our actions, everything we have done, and have not done.

There is no one that can share your responsibility. It it is your responsibility you must carry it on and you must be responsible for your actions. At the end of the day we all are being challenged, sooner or later, by our destiny. And it's up to us to make all the difference in this life. If not you, who else?

If you have a problem with my answer that's your problem, not my problem.

It is a sin not to do what one is capable of doing.

Any political agenda and organization which doesn't begin with personal responsibility is just half the argument. It's just not going to succeed.

In dreams begins responsibility.

Not only will you be held accountable for the things you do, but you will be held responsible for the very thoughts you think.

If the history of the Day of Atonement has anything to say to us now it is: never relieve individuals of moral responsibility. The more we have, the more we grow.

The European model is in danger if we obliterate the principle of personal responsibility.

I believe everybody is responsible for what they do themselves.

It is easier to do one's duty to others than to one's self. If you do your duty to others, you are considered reliable. If you do your duty to yourself, you are considered selfish.

I'm really only responsible for my own actions.

Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.

I must be responsible and accountable for my actions.