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Quotes About Responsibility

It's important to me that a man is good at taking care of people.
~ Emily VanCamp
I told my parents, 'You've taken care of me all my life, helped me through college. You've been awesome, but now it's my turn to be my own man.'
~ Eric Close
How do people come up with a date and a time to take life from another man? Who made them God?
~ Ernest Gaines
The self-made man is often proud of a poor job.
~ Ethel Mumford
It's the wise man who stays home when he's drunk.
~ Euripides
Circumstances rule men and not men rule circumstances.
~ Euripides
Lucky is the man who has been successful with his children and not got ones who are notorious disasters.
~ Euripides
Some men take good care of a car; others treat it like one of the family.
~ Evan Esar
The responsibility of a man is to lead his family.
~ Ezra Taft Benson
I don't want to talk in terms of miracles. I think this is a very serious situation. But I do want to talk in terms of Bush becoming a man of the hour, and I think this is way to do it.
~ F. Murray Abraham
There is no inevitability in history except as men make it.
~ Felix Frankfurter
Action men are the unvoluntary slaves of wise men.
~ Fernando Pessoa
The last man that makes a joke owns it.
~ Finley Peter Dunne
Mark what a generosity and courage (a dog) will put on when he finds himself maintained by a man, who to him is instead of a God
~ Francis Bacon
No man is born unto himself alone; Who lives unto himself, he lives to none.
~ Francis Quarles
For the credit of virtue we must admit that the greatest misfortunes of men are those into which they fall through their crimes.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.
~ Francois Rabelais
No man should have a political office because he wants a job.
~ Franklin Knight Lane
A man should not play the coward to his deeds. He should not repudiate them once he has performed them. Pangs of conscience are indecent.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Without the errors involved in the assumptions of ethics, man would have remained an animal. Thus has he taken himself as something higher and imposed rigid laws upon himself.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Denn was ist Freiheit? Dasz man den Willen zur Selbstverantwortlichkeit hat.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
When a man reaches his maturity in understanding and in years, the feeling comes over him that his father was wrong to beget him.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
Man has not the right to turn aside and heed not what is happening in the world around him, and this I maintain on moral grounds of the highest order.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky