Quotes About Responsibility

Men at some time are masters of their fates. The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.

The President hears a hundred voices telling him that he is the greatest man in the world. He must listen carefully indeed to hear the one voice that tells him his is not.

The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.

A man marries one woman to escape from many others, and then chases many others to forget he's married to one.

No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.

Some must follow and some command, through all are made oclay.

It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.

Only one-fourth of the sorrow in each man's life is caused by outside uncontrollable elements, the rest is self-imposed by failing to analyze and act with calmness.

The earth flourishes, or is overrun with noxious weeds and brambles, as we apply or withhold the cultivating hand. So fares it with the intellectual system of man.

You are giving a little man a biscuit to eat, and you put a barrel of flour more taxes on top of his head to carry.

[A ruler is merely] the trustee of the rights of other men and he must always stand in dread of having in some way violated these rights.

Animals... are there merely as a means to an end. That end is man.

The minister who keeps back hell from his people in his sermons is neither a faithful nor a charitable man.

One of the greatest disservices you can do a man is to lend him money that he can't pay back.

A man is not much if he can't depend on himself, and nothing if others can't depend on him.

Show me a man with a great golf game, and I'll show you a man who has been neglecting something.

A man may well bring a horse to water but he cannot make him drink.

Men's happiness or misery is [for the] most part of their own making.

The man who once cursed his fate, now curses himself - and pays his psychoanalyst.

Well, there are some things a man just can't run away from.

Without passion, men are not willing to pay any price or bear any burden to set the captives free.

We already know that anonymous letters are despicable. In etiquette, as well as in law, hiring a hit man to do the job does not relieve you of responsibility.

Every fallen woman represents a man as guilty as herself, who escapes human detection, but whose soul lies open before God.

It is our duty to be faithful, not with eye service as men pleasers.