Quotes About Responsibility

I never knew a man who was good at making excuses who was good at anything else.

We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American Eagle in order to feather their own nests.

Even when opportunity knocks, a man still has to get up off his seat and open the door.

Your experience will be a lesson to all of us men to be careful not to marry ladies in very high positions.

Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. Give a man a poisoned fish, you feed him for the rest of his life.

I exist not to be loved and admired, but to love and act. It is not the duty of those around me to love me. Rather, it is my duty to be concerned about the world, about man.

To get the best out of your men, they must feel that you are their real leader and must know that they can depend upon you.

I began to see what people were capable of doing. Anyone who moved through those years without understanding that man produces evil as a bee produces honey, must have been blind or wrong in the head.

The greatest evils in the world will not be carried out by men with guns, but by men in suits sitting behind desks

The appeal to the white man's pocket has ever been more effectual than all the appeals ever made to his conscience.

To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards of men.

If man is not fit to govern himself, how can he be fit to govern someone else?

Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself. [It is a matter of choice, not chance.] Such is the first principle of existentialism.

Freedom is what we all seek, but it's what we do with that freedom that ultimately defines our character. In the end, a man's character cements his fate, good or bad.

What will finally destroy us is not communism or fascism, but man acting like God.

God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.

Unless the will is free, man has no freedom; and if he has no freedom he is not a moral agent, that is, he is incapable of moral action and also of moral character.

There aren't any great men. There are just great challenges that ordinary men like you and me are forced by circumstances to meet.

How good we are as preachers depends - not altogether, but (make no mistake!) primarily - on how good we are as men.

You can do anything in the world if you say "Hey man, don't blame me, the devil made me do it. It's an easy way to escape responsibility."

Man has it all in his hands, and it all slips through his fingers from sheer cowardice.

The man who does things makes mistakes, but he doesn't make the biggest mistake of all-doing nothing.

Educate the children and it won't be necessary to punish the men.

What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.