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Quotes About Responsibility

To become a man is to be responsible; to be ashamed of miseries that you did not cause.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, the necessity of being the man you are and not another. You are free to be that man, but not another.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Man provides his own goods and his own evils, neither God nor the Devil has anything to do with it.
~ Ariana Franklin
The man of the house can destroy the pleasure of the household, but he cannot make it. That rests with the woman, and it is her greatest privilege.
~ Arthur Helps
Hitherto man had to live with the idea of death as an individual; from now onward mankind will have to live with the idea of its death as a species.
~ Arthur Koestler
Poe wrote like a drunkard and a man who is not accustomed to pay his debts.
~ Arthur Twining Hadley
Give a man secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden; give him nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert.
~ Arthur Young
A man's rights are not violated by a private individual's refusal to deal with him.
~ Ayn Rand
No man can have a right to impose an unchosen obligation , an unrewarded duty or an involuntary servitude on another man. There can be no such thing as " the right to enslave .
~ Ayn Rand
A man who seeks escape from the responsibility of supporting his life by his own thought and effort, and wishes to survive by conquering, ruling and exploiting others, is NOT an Individualist.
~ Ayn Rand
A viler evil than to murder a man, is to sell him suicide as an act of virtue.
~ Ayn Rand
There is no such thing as a lousy job - only lousy men who don't care to do it.
~ Ayn Rand
It is a high patriotic duty that we support and sustain the men who have been placed in position of difficulty, burden, responsibility, and even danger as the result of our suffrages.
~ Bainbridge Colby
Young men need to show women the respect they deserve and recognize sexual assault and to do their part to stop it.
~ Barack Obama
Men have to take more responsibility. Men have to intervene
~ Barack Obama
The only reason I send a single young man or woman in uniform anywhere in the world is because I think it's necessary to keep us safe.
~ Barack Obama
You wouldn't show up to a great job with a terrible resume, so don't show up to a great man with a terrible past.
~ Behdad Sami
If there is no God, then man sometimes thinks he is god, and sometimes tries to live like a god.
~ Ben Stein
The most powerful men are not public men: a public man is responsible, and a responsible man is a slave. It is private life that governs the world.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
In a discreet man's mouth, a public thing is private.
~ Benjamin Franklin
None can do a man so much harm as he doeth himself.
~ Benjamin Whichcote
Repentance doth alter a man's case with God: and therefore repentance should alter the case between one man and another.
~ Benjamin Whichcote
An idol is what man makes and then has to carry. God makes a man and then carries him.
~ Benjamin Whichcote
Mankind's suffering belongs to all men.
~ Bernard Kouchner