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Quotes About Responsibility

Women tend to immediately take responsibility if somebody messes up with both of us saying it's our fault. Men are quite happy for it to be your fault it seems like.
~ Colin Farrell
The superior man governs men, according to their nature, with what is proper to them, and as soon as they change what is wrong, he stops.
~ Confucius
A Chief must show no fear, no worry... A Chief is a leader first, and a man second.
~ Cressida Cowell
We must not close our eyes to the fact that there are conspiring men who would pollute young boys, and girls of corresponding age, for sake of increasing profits.
~ David O. McKay
Man has done a lot to make himself dangerous and animals get the worst of all of it. But then, man too is an animal.
~ Don Van Vliet
I'd rather get ten men to do the job than to do the job of ten men.
~ Dwight L. Moody
Financial sense is knowing that certain men will promise to do certain things, and fail.
~ E. W. Howe
To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
~ Edmund Burke
A man's duty? To be ready -- with rifle or rood -- to defend his home when the showdown comes.
~ Edward Abbey
A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
~ Elbert Hubbard
Why can't a man stand alone? Must he be burdened by all that he's taught to consider his own? His skin and his station, his kin and his crown, his flag and his nation They just weigh him down
~ Elvis Costello
Law intends indeed to do service to human life, but it is not able when men do not choose to accept her services; for it is only in those who are obedient to her that she displays her special virtue.
~ Epictetus
If any be unhappy, let him remember that he is unhappy by reason of himself alone. For God hath made all men to enjoy felicity and constancy of good.
~ Epictetus
The paradoxical and tragic situation of man is that his conscience is weakest when he needs it most.
~ Erich Fromm
The man who obeys is nearly always better than the man who commands.
~ Ernest Renan
Much is said about the burdens and responsibilities of married men. Responsibilities indeed there are, if they but felt them: but as to burdens what are they?
~ Ernestine Rose
All the research shows that being married, with all its ups and downs, is by far the most effective way of making young men law-abiding and giving them a sense of purpose and self-worth.
~ Ferdinand Mount
More men are guilty of treason through weakness than any studied design to betray.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
. . . in the end, there is nothing a man can do that a woman can't, except be a father.
~ Frank Pittman
A married man turns his staffe into a stake.
~ George Herbert
At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper. . . .
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
If every man, ...ceased to hate and blame every other man for his own failures and shortcomings, we would see the end of every evil in the world, from war to backbiting.
~ Grace Metalious
By twice born men a widow must not be appointed to ,cohabit with any other ,than her husband , for they who appoint ,her to another ,man , will violate the eternal law.
~ Guru Nanak