The price of greatness is responsibility.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Churchill states that being great requires accepting significant duty and burden.
- In plain terms
- Greatness comes with heavy duties.
- What can you take from it?
- Accept responsibility to achieve greatness.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What responsibility do you carry?
- Is greatness worth the cost?
Another view
It ignores the cost of power.
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