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Quotes About Responsibility

Let every man teach his son, teach his daughter, that labor is honorable.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
If every man was as true to his country as he was to his wife, we'd be in a lot of trouble.
~ Rodney Dangerfield
The man who puts into the marriage only half of what he owns will get that out.
~ Ronald Reagan
Take up the White Man's burden -- send forth the best ye breed -- go, bind your sons to exile to serve your captives need.
~ Rudyard Kipling
The sky and the earth and the waters and the things that are in them, the fishes, and the birds and the trees are not evil. All these are good; it is evil men who make this evil world.
~ Saint Augustine
Heaven never helps the man who will not help himself
~ Sophocles
A cowardly leader is the most dangerous of men.
~ Stephen King
No human being, man, woman, or child, may safely be entrusted to the power of another; for no human being may safely be trusted with absolute power.
~ Suzanne La Follette
No man who is not willing to bear arms and to fight for his rights can give a good reason why he should be entitled to the privilege of living in a free community.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
Sir, I have quarrelled with my wife; and a man who has quarrelled with his wife is absolved from all duty to his country.
~ Thomas Love Peacock
We repose an unwise confidence in any government, or in any men, when we invest them officially with too much, or an unnecessary quantity of, discretionary power.
~ Thomas Paine
Papa wasn't man enough, couldn't stand up to his responsibilities. Instead of taking care of me, he'd rather live lavishly.
~ Tupac Shakur
Khaled Said was a young man just like me, and what happened to him could have happened to me.
~ Wael Ghonim
The forgotten man... He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is to pay.
~ William Graham Sumner
No man who owns his own house and lot can be a Communist. He has too much to do.
~ William Levitt
My faith is that the only soul a man must save is his own.
~ William O. Douglas
Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
~ Samuel Johnson
All good men and women must take responsibility to create legacies that will take the next generation to a level we could only imagine.
~ Jim Rohn
Whatever spiteful fools may say, Each jealous ranting yelper, No woman ever went astray, Without a man to help her
~ Abraham Lincoln
Whatever is dirty, it is women's job to clean up, or drive some man to clean up, and that goes for everything from cellar to senate.
~ Agnes Macphail
Ladies ...any man that lusts after you will answer to God for his mental adultery...but you will answer to God if you provoked him by the manner in which you are dressed.
~ Albert Martin
A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten,' he does not say 'My men were beaten.'
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
What is common to many is least taken care of, for all men have greater regard for what is their own than what they possess in common with others.
~ Aristotle
God's designs may be frequent justification for our actions, but it is we, the "self-made men", who take the credit.
~ Arthur Erickson