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Quotes About Responsibility

Few men are admired by their servants.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Sometimes the stereotypes that a lot of people have are of black men in jail or who don't take care of their kids, so I think it's always important to have that.
~ Morris Chestnut
The most difficult art is not in the choice of men, but in giving to the men chosen the highest service of which they are capable.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Every man who is worth thirty millions and is not wedded to them, is dangerous to the government.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
A man made for public life and authority never takes account of personalities; he only takes account of things, of their weight and their conseqences.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
How many really capable men are children more than once during the day!
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Every day I'm reassessing what I've been taught against what I see, and the man I need to be if I'm going to call myself a leader of anybody.
~ Nate Parker
To leave the world a little better than you found it. That's the best a man can ever do.
~ Paul Auster
It's not what enters men's mouth that is evil," said the alchemist. It's what comes out of their mouths that is.
~ Paulo Coelho
The fault is in the system and not in the men.
~ Peter Drucker
But married once, a man is stak'd or pown'd, and cannot graze beyond his own hedge.
~ Philip Massinger
It is as expedient that a wicked man be punished as that a sick man be cured by a physician; for all chastisement is a kind of medicine.
~ Plato
Every unjust man is unjust against his will.
~ Plato
The prudent man really frames his own fortunes for himself.
~ Plautus
Men who marry wives very much superior to themselves are not so truly husbands to their wives as they are unawares made slaves to their position.
~ Plutarch
The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.
~ Publilius Syrus
Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Human beings are free except when humanity needs them.
~ Orson Scott Card
When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also.
~ Oscar Wilde
And certainly once a man begins to neglect his domestic duties he becomes painfully effeminate, does he not? And I don't like that. It makes men so very attractive.
~ Oscar Wilde
According to the state of a man's conscience, so do hope and fear on account of his deeds arise in his mind.
~ Ovid
To say that God's sovereignty is limited by man's freedom is to make man sovereign.
~ R. C. Sproul
So that every man lawfully ordained must bring a bow which hath two strings, a title of present right and another to provide for future possibility or chance.
~ Richard Hooker
A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.
~ Richard M. Nixon