Quotes About Responsibility

My old man taught me two things: 'Mind own business' and 'Always cut cards.'

Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power.

The history of the world shows that when a mean thing was done, man did it; when a good thing was done, man did it.

Serving on a jury forces a man to make up his mind and declare himself about something. Men don't like to do that. Sometimes it's unpleasant.

When a man spends his relief checks on green whiskey his children have a way of crying from hunger pains.

A man who is not interested in politics is not doing his patriotic duty toward maintaining the constitution of the United States.

A man who can be provoked by a tweet should not have his fingers anywhere near the nuclear codes.

The man who acts the least, upbraids the most.

Every father was his own man. He did what he wanted. If your mother went shopping, your father never went with her.

A man must feel he runs things, but as long as you control yourself, you control him.

Sometimes a man does what he'd most like to avoid.

Women who bring up children by themselves do it heroically, they do it against all odds, men who don't feel responsible for being part of their child's life create real strains on that family.

A man divorcing would never be accused of choosing career over children.

That was the tragedy. Not that one man had the courage to be evil. But that millions had not the courage to be good.

At what point does a man turn into a monster? I don't believe that it's when he does horrible things, but when he accepts that he's able to do them, and that he does them well.

As a young man, you get to a point in your life where you feel like you have grown up and have to make decisions and not having that father figure in your life to guide you to making those decisions.

A boy becomes a man when a man is needed

Man himself has become our greatest hazard and our only hope. So that today, St. John the apostle may well be paraphrased: In the end is the Word, and the Word is Man - and the Word is with Men.

A boy gets to be a man when a man is needed. Remember this thing. I have known boys forty years old because there was no need for a man.

A man is no better than he has to be.

Let guilty men remember, their black deeds Do lean on crutches made of slender reeds.

You cannot lay remorse upon the innocent nor lift it from the heart of the guilty. Unbidden shall it call in the night, that men may wake and gaze upon themselves.

It is not enough to be ready to go where duty calls. A man should stand around where he can hear the call!

I am convinced that in times such as these, every man must be a soldier, in substance as well as in name.