Quotes About Responsibility

My father instilled in me an attitude that you couldn't really enjoy yourself unless you had done something to deserve it. So, my childhood was spent working on farms or local shops or, when I got older, in banks.

Like, in high school, I was a good student and got straight As. It was very strict and you couldn't do well there unless you studied very hard, but every time there was any trouble, I was the first person they would be talking to.

Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.

It's sort of easy to make a challenge. It's very hard to put the full fate of your government behind the challenge and make it happen. That's real leadership.

All the men and women whom I have faced at that final moment, convince me that in what I have done, I have not prevented a single murder.

There are so many responsible, nice, kind guys out there. Why marry a fixer-upper?

The commonest fallacy among women is that simply having children makes them a mother - which is as absurd as believing that having a piano makes one a musician.

Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers.

Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.

I call on men and boys everywhere to join us. Violence against women and girls will not be eradicated until all of us - men and boys - refuse to tolerate it.

Men are not only women's unpaid bodyguards, they actually pay to be a woman's bodyguard.

The idea of blaming alcohol or drugs or quote-unquote "promiscuity" is a false path. The real issue is that men should not hurt women.

Women will never be taken seriously until they accept full responsibility for their sexuality.

A truly equal world would be one where women ran half our countries and companies and men ran half our homes.

If we're going to have better choices for women, we've got to have better choices for men.

You have a chance to save lives! If you don't take it, you may regret it!

Women really do want to be on time. It's just that everything starts so darn early.

Women sometimes forgive a man who forces the opportunity, but never a man who misses ones.

It is morally obscene to regard wealth as an anonymous, tribal product and to talk about 'redistributing' it.

The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperon.

If the world was taking care of women, women would take care of the world.

The only reason that they say, 'Women and children first' is to test the strength of the lifeboats.

If I stumbled badly in doing the job, I think it would have made life more difficult for women, and that was a great concern of mine and still is.

Women blame men for their own singlehood.