Robert E. Lee Quotes

It's absolutely true that unless you can instill discipline upon yourself, you will never be able to lead others.

It is unjust to exact that men shall do out of deference to our advice what they have no desire to do for themselves.

The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

When any of us thinks of ourselves as a role model - whether that's as a parent being observed by their kids or a leader under the microscope of their followers - it creates a natural stepping up of how we carry ourselves and what we expect from ourselves.

If you choose to do something, then you shouldn't say it's a sacrifice, because nobody forced you to do it.

We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility.

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

There comes a point when a man must refuse to answer to his leader if he is also to answer to his own conscience.

I believe everybody is responsible for what they do themselves.

I think self-reliance and self-responsibility and self-accountability will help you as a parent, a teacher, as a citizen as a friend.

Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.

I believe the reason for my early independence is sport, through which I learnt at an early stage to take care of myself and be disciplined.

I'm really only responsible for my own actions.

An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual.

Years ago I learned to be totally responsible for Dionne Warwick. I will not wait for opportunities. I will create them.

No one teaches you how to be a famous person; no one teaches you how to be a role model. It's something you have to do on your own.

True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to well, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to do.

We were elected to lead and sometimes we just have to do the right thing.

Above all, we know that although Americans can be led to make great sacrifices, they do not like to be driven.

The individual is not accountable to society for his actions, insofar as these concern the interests of no person but himself.

Liberty is often a heavy burden on a man. It involves that necessity for perpetual choice which is the kind of labor men have always dreaded.

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

Whoever can, should.

A great man’s actions are determined, if not foreordained, by his character.

Man must assume responsibility for the direction of his life and destiny.