Quotes About Responsibility

Let men not ask what the law requires, but give whatever freedom demands.

The man who always takes and never gives is not a leader. He is a parasite.

So easily do weak men put in high positions turn villains.

If God has called you to something, He will equip you to be what He has called you to be. If He has called you to be a responsible, faithful, diligent leader, as a man, He will equip you to do that.

The worst day in a man's life is when he sits down and begins thinking about how he can get something for nothing.

When a man makes up his mind to thrash another, he must also make up his mind to be a little thrashed himself.

Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.

Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her.

Any idiot can get an airplane off the ground, but an aviator earns his keep by bringing it back anytime, anywhere, under any circumstances that man and God can dream up.

God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail.

If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.

Democracy demands that little men should not take big ones too seriously; it dies when it is full of little men who think they are big themselves.

A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.

A man who is more concerned with being a good man than being good at being a man makes a very well-behaved slave.

I am the attorney general of the United States. But I am also a black man.

The weakest man is the one who is able to correct his moral defects, but doesn't take action.

A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.

It is a lot of responsibility. But I enjoy being a father. Thats one of the best parts of my life. I feel like, man, thats one of the greatest things Ive got going on, being a father.

We are not truly civilized if we concern ourselves only with the relation of man to man. What is important is the relation of man to all life.

A militia, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves... and include all men capable of bearing arms.

Judging is a lonely job in which a man is, as near as may be, an island entire.

The people who could do most to improve the situation of so many women and children are in fact, men.

The Lord will never permit me or any other man who stands as president of this church to lead you astray.

I never could believe that Providence had sent a few men into the world, ready booted and spurred to ride, and millions ready saddled and bridled to be ridden.