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Quotes About Responsibility

There is a price tag on human liberty. That price is the willingness to assume the responsibilities of being free men. Payment of this price is a personal matter with each of us.
~ James Monroe
The murder of a man is still murder, even in wartime.
~ Manfred von Richthofen
A young man should ask himself not if it is his duty to go to the heathen, but if he may dare stay at home. The command is so plain: "Go."
~ Lottie Moon
The rich man who gives to the poor does not bestow alms but pays a debt.
~ Ambrose
The ultimate test of a man's conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.
~ Gaylord Nelson
Blessed the man and woman who is able to serve cheerfully in the second rank - a big test.
~ Mary Slessor
The disease of men is that they neglect their own fields and go to weed the fields of others.
~ Mencius
Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.
~ Louis D. Brandeis
A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
The clothes make the man. The children working in sweatshops make the clothes. Therefore, the children working in sweatshops make the man.
~ Demetri Martin
Tell me, do you spend time with your family? Good. Because a man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man.
~ Marlon Brando
A man can fail, but he isn't a failure until he blames someone else.
~ J. Paul Getty
Father, make of me a crisis man. Bring those I contact to decision. Let me not be a milepost on a single road; make me a fork, that men must turn one way or another on facing Christ in me.
~ Jim Elliot
Man's highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.
~ Émile Zola
Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.
~ Herbert Hoover
A man can take a little bourbon without getting drunk, but if you hold his mouth open and pour in a quart, he's going to get sick on it.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
To be a real man or woman, you've got to know what you believe in. You've got to understand that your actions have consequences and that they are connected to everything that you are.
~ Sister Souljah
When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself.
~ Jacques Yves Cousteau
We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.
~ Calvin Coolidge
We do not say that a man who takes no interest in public affairs is a man who minds his own business. We say he has no business being here at all.
~ Pericles
An early-rising man is a good spouse but a bad husband.
~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Most men worry about their own bellies and other people's souls, when we all ought to be worried about our own souls and other people's bellies.
~ Yisroel Salanter
Evangelism is not a professional job for a few trained men, but is instead the unrelenting responsibility of every person who belongs to the company of Jesus.
~ D. Elton Trueblood
We say here that if you fall down in the United States, the ambulance man must feel for your wallet before he feels for your pulse.
~ George Galloway