Quotes About Responsibility

For however often a man may receive an obligation from you, if you refuse a request, all former favors are effaced by this one denial.

We ought not to quit our post without the permission of Him who commands; the post of man is life.

Marriage is an institution that teaches a man regularity, frugality, temperance, forbearance and many other splendid virtues he would not need had he stayed single.

When men don't fear god, they give themselves to evil

As a man, there's a part of me that feels I should still be going out and doing a proper day's work.

A man is responsible for his ignorance.

It is imperative that good people, men and women of principle, be involved in the political process; otherwise we abdicate power to those whose designs are almost entirely selfish.

All social life, stability, progress, depend upon each man's confidence in his neighbor, a reliance upon him to do his duty.

A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.

We're living in times where men commit crimes and crime don't have a face.

Give a man free hands, and you'll know where to find them.

Black women must challenge black men to live up to their best in every arena of the culture - at job, at home, in school and in religious arenas.

If we do not help a man in trouble, it is as if we caused the trouble.

Weak men act to satisfy their needs, stronger men their duties.

There will be life after Mandela. On my last day I want to know that those who remain behind will say: 'The man who lies here has done his duty for his country and his people.'

Men never do good unless necessity drives them to it; but when they are free to choose and can do just as they please, confusion and disorder become rampant.

If a man owns land, the land owns him.

A book is a loaded gun in the house next door...Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man?

Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.

There are some men in this world who are born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your father's one of them.

It is as hard to get a man to stay at home after you've married him as it was to get him to go home before you married him.

Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man

Often even a whole city suffers for a bad man who sins and contrives presumptuous deeds.

Let it be a settled principle ...that men's salvation, if saved, is wholly of God; and that man's ruin, if lost, is wholly of himself.