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Quotes About Responsibility

The man that brings ant-infested faggots into his hut should not grumble when lizards begin to pay him a visit.
~ Chinua Achebe
A promise unkept will take a man's mind.
~ Claire Vaye Watkins
Laws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man's origin, capacity and responsibility.
~ Clarence Darrow
A man blessed with a good mamma and a good wife has no right to complain about anything else.
~ Claude Pepper
So long as a man attends to his business the public does not count his drinks. When he fails they notice if he takes even a glass of root beer.
~ Corra May Harris
Integrity is fundamental to being men. Integrity means being truthful, but it also means accepting responsibility and honoring commitments and covenants.
~ D. Todd Christofferson
You young men of the priesthood, resolve to live the way you should. Don't be caught up in some of the silly things that are going on in the world, but bear in mind what has been given to you.
~ David B. Haight
For all of higher civilization's recorded history, becoming a man was defined overwhelmingly as taking responsibility for a family.
~ Dennis Prager
The more wealth a man has, the louder his children talk.
~ E. W. Howe
As a man handles his troubles during the day, so he goes to bed at night a General, Captain, or Private.
~ E. W. Howe
I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.
~ Edmund Burke
Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.
~ Elbert Hubbard
Responsibiliti es gravitate to the man who can shoulder them and the power to him who knows how
~ Elbert Hubbard
A young man is stirred and stimulated by the consciousness of how much depends upon his own exertions: a young girl is oppressed by it.
~ Elizabeth Missing Sewell
It's nine o'clock on Sunday night/Do you know where your man is?
~ Elle Varner
If you think you control things that are in the control of others, you will lament. You will be disturbed and you will blame both gods and men.
~ Epictetus
Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
~ Finley Peter Dunne
Man only blames himself in order that he may be praised.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
There is scarcely any man sufficiently clever to appreciate all the evil he does.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Few men know all the ill they do.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A man is perhaps ungrateful, but often less chargeable with ingratitude than his benefactor is.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The man who meets with a failure attributes this failure rather to the ill will of another than to fate.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
That whatever a man says, promises, or resolves in passion he must stick to later on when he is cold and sober--this demand is among the heaviest burdens that weigh on humankind.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
The rights which a man arrogates to himself are relative to the duties which he sets himself, and to the tasks which he feels capable of performing.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche