Quotes About Responsibility

For action is indeed the sole medium of expression for ethics.

We certainly do not forget you, so soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our merit. We cannot help ourselves.

It is not what we think or feel that makes us who we are. It is what we do. Or fail to do...

I was so anxious to do what is right that I forgot to do what is right.

There is one thing, Emma, which a man can always do if he chooses, and that is his duty; not by manoeuvring and finessing, but by vigour and resolution. - Mr. Knightley

Well, my dear, said Mr. Bennet, when Elizabeth had read the note aloud, if your daughter should have a dangerous fit of illness—if she should die, it would be a comfort to know that it was all in pursuit of Mr. Bingley, and under your orders.

I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward filial disobedience.

What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.

There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it.

My illness, I well knew, had been entirely brought on by myself by such negligence of my own health, as I had felt even at the time to be wrong. Had I died, it would have been self-destruction.

A person who is knowingly bent on bad behavior, gets upset when better behavior is expected of them.

for when people are determined on a mode of conduct which they know to be wrong, they feel injured by the expectation of any thing better from them.

As a brother, a landlord, a master, she considered how many people's happiness were in his guardianship! -- How much of pleasure or pain it was in his power to bestow! -- How much of good or evil must be done by him!

Do not defer it. What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.

When a woman has five grown-up daughters, she ought to give over thinking of her own beauty.

Men never know when things are dirty or not; women will have their little nonsenses and needless cares.

I do not play this instrument so well as I should wish to, but I have always supposed that to be my own fault because I would not take the trouble of practicing.

Men never know when things are dirty or not

There is one thing...which a man can always do, if he chuses[sic], and that is, his duty.

It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not, what they ought to be, so are the nation.

Married women, you know, may be safely authorised. It is my party. Leave it all to me. I will invite your guests. No, he calmly replied, there is but one married woman in the world whom I can ever allow to invite what guests she pleases to Donwell, and that one is- Mrs. Weston, I suppose, interrupted Mrs. Elton, rather mortified. No, Mrs. Knightley; and, till she is in being, I will manage such matters myself.

consequence has its tax;...

If I mistake not, a strong sense of duty is no bad part of a woman's portion.

There is one thing, Emma, which a man can always do, if he chuses, and that is, his duty; not by manoeuvring and finessing, but by vigour and resolution.