Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

Much has been given us, and much will rightfully be expected from us. We have duties to others and duties to ourselves; and we can shirk neither. We have become a great nation, forced by the fact of its greatness into relations with other nations of the earth, and we must behave as beseems a people with such responsibilities.

To me, a leader is someone who holds her- or himself accountable for finding potential in people and processes. And so what I think is really important is sustainability.

A new era of responsibility is here.

I have gone from being a 21-year-old with wide eyes to a 24-year-old woman. With success comes a lot of responsibility and power.

I have to be a leader now. I need to shoulder responsibility more than I used to. It's changed me, but I'm OK with that.

Today, we are shapers of the world of tomorrow. That is plain truth. There is no way we can duck the responsibility, and there is no reason why we should.

We seek your blessings and we seek your support. On one side there is the Shahzada and on the other side there is a tea seller. There is Namdaar and there is a Kamdaar. But we assure that after assuming responsibility we will not rest for a minute. All the time will be for the people.

We have a lot of things to work through. But the American people need to have confidence that we're going to change things, but we're going to move us in to a direction of more decisions and more choices, and not a diminishing of responsibility and care that people are really relied upon.

If the whole world followed you, would you be pleased with where you took it?

America undermines its own ideals when it ignores the very values it is promoting around the world. You cannot ask other people in the world to follow the law and act responsibly if we don't do the same... and being afraid is not an excuse.

They've picked their heads up off the ground, and they now have a lot to carry on their shoulders.

There is a place in the world for anyone in the world who says, "I'll take care of it."

If you want to know why your people are not performing well, step up to the mirror and take a peek.

Far too many people make promises they can never keep. They may have the best intentions in the world to keep their promise-but if they have not made a plan to keep it, they will not be able to do it.

Politicians have responsibility to act if the public opinion changes.

It is not time to tell the leaders to realize how important education is - they already know it - their own children are in good schools. Now it is time to call them to take action.

America, our endless blessings bestow an enduring burden. But as Americans, we welcome our responsibility to lead.

Good governance depends on ability to take responsibility by both administration as well as people.

Leadership deals with people and their dynamics, which are continually changing. The challenge of leadership is to create change and facilitate growth.

What you learn from that first, and I don't call it 'trial by fire,' I call it 'baptism by fire,' is that you are going to have to take all of the responsibility, because basically when it gets right down to it, you are going to get all of the blame, so you might as well have made all of the decisions that led to people either liking it or disliking it. There's nothing worse than hearing somebody say 'Oh, you made that movie? I thought that movie sucked,' and you have to agree with them, you know?

I think that’s a responsibility that I have, to push possibilities, to show people: “This is the level that things could be at.”

A great nation cannot abandon its responsibilities. Responsibilities abandoned today return as more acute crises tomorrow.

Stop talking about how you care about people. Show me something. Show me a policy. Show me a policy where you take responsibility.

The buck stops with me, but I can tick off dozens of very good senior executives that are responsible for hundreds or thousands of people who work for me.

My leadership began to take flight when I allowed myself to press people to change-whether they thanked me or cursed me.