Quotes About Responsibility

There is no escape - man drags man down, or man lifts man up.

The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.

Those who tread 'adult' as a term of approval cannot hope to be considered adult themselves. When I became a man I put away childish things, along with the desire to be very grown up.

A man should be jailed for telling lies to the young.

A hard lesson had been learned--that man himself suffers most when his hand despoils the earth and robs it of its legitimate fruits.

God knows how many things a man misses by becoming smug and assuming that matters will take their own course.

Let every man shovel out his own snow, and the whole city will be passable," said Gamache. Seeing Beauvoir's puzzled expression he added, "Emerson." "Lake and Palmer?" "Ralph and Waldo.

When things haven't gone well for you, call in a secretary or a staff man and chew him out. You will sleep better and they will appreciate the attention.

Never ask a man where's he's been. If he's out on legitimate business, he doesn't need an alibi. And, girls, if he has been out on illegitimate business, it's your own fault.

God is going to punish the white man for his misdeeds toward black people.

Pray look upon the plants and birds, the ants, spiders, and bees, and you will see them all exerting their nature, and busy in their station. Pray, shall not a man act like a man?

Motherhood: 24/7 on the frontlines of humanity. Are you man enough to try it?

Responsiblity is the great developer of men.

It's very easy for some men and in some cases women to sit back and say with 20-20 hindsight, "Tsk-tsk, should have done more." But it doesn't account for the reality.

There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world, with as much dispatch as they would do a dish of fritters.

The man fitted for affairs and authority never considers individuals, but things and their consequences.

The public spirit is in the hands of the man who knows how to make use of it.

He who cannot look over a battlefield with a dry eye, causes the death of many men uselessly.

These men were wrongfully rejected, the veterans. The fighting man should never have been blamed for Vietnam.

The happily married man with a large family is the test pilot for me.

Men heap together the mistakes of their lives, and create a monster they call Destiny.

... Societies aren t made of sticks and stones, but of men whose individual characters, by turning the scale one way or another, determine the direction of the whole.

Not only is the old man twice a child, but also the man who is drunk.

As the government is, such will be the man.