Robert Baden-Powell Quotes

You cheat yourself when you don't do what it is you're supposed to do. You have an obligation to learn everything that you can.

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

Consult duty not events.

Doing what you want to do is easy. Doing what you have to do is hard.

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

There is nothing in the universe that I fear, but that I shall not know all my duty, or shall fail to do it.

You need responsibility in life.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Every day carries with it a responsibility.

There's no excuse for losing for me.

Duty, then is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more; you should never wish to do less.

We all know our duty better than we discharge it.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

I will never do a record without some sense of responsibility.

Once you take a role, you have to do it properly and do it justice.

I have a strong sense of responsibility. I like to be directed, it's true. If I didn't like that, I'd do something else.

It's about working when nobody's watching.

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

One must work; one must work. I have done what I could.

It is the solemn obligation of a leader always to be a leader. Even when - perhaps especially when - you don't feel like being a leader.

Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.

I realize that much will be asked of me, yet I am resolved to accept it as a great and splendid task.

Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

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

But there is a corollary to freedom and that's personal responsibility, and the real challenge is how you generate that personal responsibility without imposing it.