Quotes About Responsibility

The man who would be fully employed should procure a ship or a woman, for no two things produce more trouble.

It is the duty of every man to uphold the dignity of every woman.

To avert disaster, we have not only to teach men to make things but to teach them to have complete moral control over what they make.

To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man. [Lat., In totum jurare, nisi ubi necesse est, gravi viro parum convenit.]

One man by delaying saved the state for us.

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.

Unhappily, no man exists who has not in his own person become, to some amount, a stockholder in the sin, and so made himself liable to a share in the expiation.

Man is unique in that, unlike animals, he knows he is going to die, and unlike animals he can do something about it.

Speak to your people as to men that must be awakened, either here or in hell.

It is generally true that all that is required to make men unmindful of what they owe to God for any blessing, is, that they should receive that blessing often and regularly.

Being a president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep on riding or he is swallowed.

That government is best which governs not at all; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.

It is truly enough said that a corporation has no conscience, but a corporation of conscientious men is a corporation with a conscience.

England expects every man to do his duty

I've never hanged a man. It is the law that has done it.

I go by the great republican principle, that the people will have the virtue and intelligence to select men of virtue and wisdom [to the offices of government].

A man is accountable to no person for his doings.

There is one thing, Emma, which a man can always do if he chooses, and that is his duty; not by manoeuvring and finessing, but by vigour and resolution. - Mr. Knightley

The pleasure a man of honor enjoys in the consciousness of having performed his duty is a reward he pays himself for all his pains.

A woman is easily governed, if a man takes her in hand.

We are not naïve enough to ask for pure men; we ask merely for men whose impurity does not conflict with the obligations of their job.

The existentialist says at once that man is anguish.

God's forgiveness is the only thing. And, well, I take full responsibility for the adultery. It was my fault and, you know, no matter what went on, the man has to take responsibility; and I do

The Bible declares that on the sixth day God created man. Right then and there, God should have demanded a damage deposit.