Hyman Rickover Quotes

Responsibility is a unique concept. It can only reside and inhere in a single individual. You may share it with others, but your portion is not diminished. You may delegate it, but it is still with you. You may disclaim it, but you cannot divest yourself of it. 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.

I must be responsible and accountable for my actions.

If I have made a mistake in the design, then I'm the one who should pay for it. I certainly would not ask somebody else to fly a plane if I were afraid to do it myself.

Don't try to shift your responsibilities on to somebody else.

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...

People are supposed to be responsible.

We need to hold ourselves accountable for the work we do and the choices we make.

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

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

And no practical definition of freedom would be complete without the freedom to take the consequences. Indeed, it is the freedom upon which all the others are based.

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

Do not make excuses, whether it's your fault or not.

Responsibility is the price every man must pay for freedom.

No one is responsible under liberalism.

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

The words It's not my fault! should never again come from your mouth. The words It's not my fault! have been symbolically written on the gravestones of unsuccessful people ever since Eve took her first bite of the apple.

I think you need to make responsibility something that's not just a word.

If you don't accept responsibility for your own actions then you are forever chained to a position of defense.

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?

I wish I had fair justification for not being as informed as I should be, but I don't.

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

A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility.

I am here to accept responsibility for that which I did. I will not accept responsibility for that which I did not do.

When you blame yourself, you learn from it. If you blame someone else, you don't learn nothing, cause hey, it's not your fault, it's his fault, over there.

Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.