Quotes About Responsibility

Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance.

Thought is the parent of the deed.

There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.

Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness.

The ghostly consciousness of wrong.

Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.

No lie you can speak or act but it will come, after longer or shorter circulation, like a bill drawn on Nature's Reality, and be presented there for payment—with the answer, No effects.

Fire is the best of servants; but what a master!

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.

Every noble crown is, and on earth will forever be, a crown of thorns.

Be not the slave of Words.

Do the duty which lieth nearest to thee! Thy second duty will already have become clearer.

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.

If something be not done, something will do itself one day, and in a fashion that will please nobody

Not what I Have," continues he, "but what I Do is my Kingdom.

let him who gropes painfully in darkness or uncertain light, and prays vehemently that the dawn may ripen into day, lay this other precept well to heart, which to me was of invaluable service: 'Do the duty which lies nearest thee,' which thou knowest to be a Duty! Thy second duty will already have become clearer.

Where thou findest a Lie that is oppressing thee, extinguish it. Lies exist there only to be extinguished; they wait and cry earnestly for extinction.

Till thirty the Spartans did not suffer a man to marry: but how many men here under thirty; coming to produce not one sufficient citizen, but a nation and a world of such!

What are you doing in God's fair Earth and Task-garden; where whosoever is not working is begging or stealing? Wo, wo to themselves and to all, if they can only answer: Collecting tithes, Preserving game!

Man is without Duty round him; except it be "to make the Constitution." He is without Heaven above him, or Hell beneath him; he has no God in the world.

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Thirteen thousand dollars a year is not enough to raise a family. That's not enough to pay your bills and save for their future. That's barely enough to provide for even the most basic needs.

A man wrote a letter to the IRS saying, "I have been unable to sleep knowing that I have cheated on my income tax. I have understated my taxable income and have enclosed a check for $150. If I still can't sleep, I will send the rest.