Quotes About Responsibility

It is a great pity but tis certain from every day's observation of man, that he may be set on fire like a candle, at either end provided there is a sufficient wick standing out.

What makes a man a man? It's the choices he makes. Not how he starts things but how he finishes them.

If you think you're a leader, and you look over your shoulder and there ain't nobody following you, man, you're just takin' a walk.

A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.

You may be sure that when a man begins to call himself a realist he is preparing to do something that he is secretly ashamed of doing.

The great man is to be the servant of mankind, not they of him.

The world owes nothing to any man, but every man owes something to the world.

Man has free choice, or otherwise counsels, exhortations, commands, prohibitions, rewards and punishments would be in vain.

Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.

No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.

The school-room sends men to the Legislature, to the bench, and the executive office. The bar-room sends them to the scaffold and hell.

Those men who destroy a healthful constitution of body by intemperance as manifestly kill themselves as those who hang or poison or drown themselves.

I finally understand for a woman it ain't easy trying to raise a man.

Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.

Occasionally, a man must rise above principles.

Education is the only interest worthy the deep, controlling anxiety of the thoughtful man.

One of the evils of democracy is, you have to put up with the man you elect whether you want him or not.

Who is the Forgotten Man? He is the clean, quiet, virtuous, domestic citizen, who pays his debts and his taxes and is never heard of out of his little circle.

I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses.

What infinite heart's-ease Must kings neglect that private men enjoy! And what have kings that privates have not too, Save ceremony, save general ceremony?

Men of great and shining qualities do not always succeed in life, but the fault lies more often in themselves than in others.

I would have given my own life if I could have undone the killing of white men by my people.

The earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of earth. If men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves.

Men do not settle down. Men surrender.