Quotes About Responsibility

The national task that had been incumbent upon me for 18 years is hereby confirmed.

Adam betrayed God. Pierre betrayed the god man. (Adam a trahi Dieu. Pierre a trahi l'homme dieu)

But if the rooster crows, this is not for the farmer. (Mais si le coq a chanté, - Ce n'est pas pour le fermier.)

Cowards excuse themselves by the children. Heroes excuse the children. (Les lâches s'excusent par les enfants. - Les héros excusent les enfants.)

Find a scapegoat is wanting to destroy the ruins. (Trouver un bouc émissaire, - C'est vouloir les ruines détruire.)

The mark in the snow shows a weight. Who refuses his choices refuses oneself. (La marque dans la neige vit un poids. Se refuse qui refuse ses choix)

The wedding is to be sentenced for life for good past conduct. (Le mariage, c'est être condamné A vie pour bonne conduite passée)

It is not the young people that degenerate they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.

A married man with a family will do anything for money.

Change begins at home

There's light enough for wot I've got to do.

I wear the chain I forged in life....I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.

Nobody's enemy but his own.

The mistake was made of putting some of the trouble out of King Charles's head into my head.

In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.

You are fettered," said Scrooge, trembling. "Tell me why?" "I wear the chain I forged in life," replied the Ghost. "I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.

They are Man's and they cling to me, appealing from their fathers. This boy is Ignorance and this girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased.

There are some upon this earth of yours who lay claim to know us, and who do their deeds of passion, pride, ill-will, hatred, envy, bigotry, and selfishness in our name; who are as strange to us and all our kith and kin, as if they had never lived. Remember that, and charge their doings on themselves, not us.

We forge the chains we wear in life.

Man," said the Ghost, "if man you be in heart, not adamant, forbear that wicked cant until you have discovered What the surplus is, and Where it is. Will you decide what men shall live, what men shall die?

So does a whole world, with all its greatnesses and littlenesses, lie in a twinkling star. And as mere human knowledge can split a ray of light and analyse the manner of its composition, so, sublimer intelligences may read in the feeble shining of this earth of ours, every thought and act, every vice and virtue, of every responsible creature on it.

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

We need be careful how we deal with those about us, when every death carries to some small circle of survivors, thoughts of so much omitted, and so little done- of so many things forgotten, and so many more which might have been repaired! There is no remorse so deep as that which is unavailing; if we would be spared its tortures, let us remember this, in time.

In short, I should have liked to have had the lightest license of a child, and yet be man enough to know its value