Quotes About Responsibility

When a man begins to feel that he is the only one who can lead in this republic, he is guilty of treason to the spirit of our institutions.

Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too.

In my opinion, any man who can afford to buy a newspaper should not be allowed to own one.

Well, if I am a man, a man I must become.

Ingratitude to man is ingratitude to God.

Boys forget what their country means by just reading "the land of the free" in history books. Then they get to be men, they forgeteven more. Liberty's too precious a thing to be buried in books.

You should not consider a man's age but his acts.

At this club, all I see is great backing all the way down for me and I will be judged on results like the next man. (on being Manchester City manager)

To be a real man is to be unattached - not from responsibility or justice - but from those dependencies that inhibit responsibility and justice.

A great man knows the value of greatness; he dares not hazard it, he will not squander it.

Let's not be too quick to blame the human race for everything. A great many species of animals became extinct before man ever appeared on earth.

Everyone is a self-made man. Only the successful admit it.

A man can be a parent without knowing it: a woman cannot.

Children are the root of all evil.... Happy the man who has his quiver empty.

For my part, I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses,--the very easiest to be deadened when wakened, and in some never wakened at all.

The most important thing my father taught me is that every man has to stand up for his rights.

Many a man can save himself if he admits he's done wrong and takes his punishment.

It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of his own folly.

There ought to be more scrupulous honesty in big business men than in any other human relation. For big business requires teamwork on a gigantic scale.

Some men think that the globe is a sponge that God puts into their hands to squeeze for their own garden or flower-pot.

Every man may claim the fullest liberty to exercise his faculties compatible with the possession of like liberties by every other man.

Nature has not implanted any power in man that was not meant to be exercised at times, though too often our powers have been abused.

The man who procrastinates is always struggling with misfortunes.

I long for the day when advertising will become a business for a grown man.