Quotes About Responsibility

It is hard to rescue a man from the slough of luxury and idleness combined. If anything can do it, it is a cradle filled annually.

God has given a great deal to man, but man would like something from man.

Being a father is the most rewarding thing a man whose career has plateaued can do.

Men regard it as their right to return evil for evil and, if they cannot, feel they have lost their liberty.

When we say that a man controls himself, we must specify who is controlling whom.

Every man's actions belong to him.

I see man more as an instrument or an agent more than anything else.

If I'd had fame early on, I'd have been able to abuse it in the way that a young man should.

A man separated from his reflective belt is no man at all.

A truly obedient man does not discriminate between one thing and another, since his only aim is to execute faithfully whatever may be assigned to him.

You can't be a real man if you don't look out for your kids. They need you.

We want men to rule the nation who care more for and love better the nation's welfare than gold and silver, fame or popularity.

Prosperity knits a man to the world.

Any man who does not like dogs and want them about does not deserve to be in the White House.

It is difficult for men in high office to avoid the malady of self-delusion

Inanimate objects are harmless indeed, Mr. Mortmain. But one cannot always say the same of the men who use them.

It is my happy privilege to be able to stand here and tell you that if you elect me you will have elected a governor who has made no promises of preferment to any man or group.

Nothing that man ever invents will absolve him from the universal necessity of being good as God is good, righteous as God is righteous, and holy as God is holy.

Idle men tempt the devil to tempt them.

I am clearly vulnerable on the question of socializing under circumstances not appropriate for a married man.

I don't think a manager should be judged by whether he wins the pennant, but by whether he gets the most out of the twenty-five men he's been given.

No man is a good citizen, a good neighbor, a good friend, or a good man just because he obeys the law. The intrinsic worth is determined mainly by the intrinsic make-up.

The thing that haunts a man the most is what he isn't ordered to do.

When you hang a man, you better look at him.