Quotes About Responsibility

If you're a man in your twenties or thirties, and you have yet to make your fortune, I would urge you not to get married.

There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.

There is one excuse for every mistake a man can make, but only one. When a fellow makes the same mistake twice he's got to throw up both hands and own up to carelessness or cussedness.

For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.

There's already been black presidents who've been corrupt, so it doesn't strike me that having a black man in office means he's going to be the Messiah.

If it is man's privilege to be independent, it is equally his duty to be inter - dependent.

The White man pays Reverend Martin Luther King so that Martin Luther King can keep the Negro defenseless.

Men ought to be most annoyed by the sufferings which come from their own faults.

I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life, unable to influence the unfolding events which surround him.

Whatever my doubts, however heavy the burden, I feel that I must accept the task of helping to make this nation and this world a better place to live in - for all men, black and white alike.

The oppressed must never allow the conscience of the oppressor to slumber. Religion reminds every man that he is his brother's keeper.

There should be a colossal mother going about the world to turn men over her lap and give them the slipper. They pine for it.

Riches are a blessing or a curse to a man according as he has or has not a heart to make good use of them.

The missing link between animals and a truly humane mankind is man himself, who does not yet see himself as a part of the world, claiming it instead for himself.

Stealing is a lazy man's way. Something for nothing, leaves you hell to pay.

No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.

The man who disobeys his parents will have disobedient sons.

When one married a man, it was clear to me, one married also the sink and the stove.

Women are not men's equals in anything except responsibility. We are not their inferiors, either, or even their superiors. We are quite simply different races.

Man's life comes from God: it is his image and imprint, as sharing in his breath of life. God therefore is the sole Lord of this life: Man cannot do with it as he wills.

Assist a man in raising a burden; but do not assist him in laying it down.

If Jupiter should hurl a bolt whenever men sin, His armory would quickly be empty.

A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life.

Of all debts, men are least willing to pay their taxes; what a satire this is on government.