Quotes About Responsibility

The girl has to be, you know, "the man," who is going to take care of everybody.

My children have made me a better man, which is - in the end, that's probably more important than two more comedy specials or being in better shape.

A man should live his life a certain way not because of some divine authority, but because of a personal moral obligation to himself and others.

A man does not mind being blamed for his faults, and being punished for them, and he patiently suffers much for them; but he becomes impatient if he is required to give them up.

Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always right, and the errors are always those of man.

Are we not also married to conscience which we would love to get rid of often enough since it is more bothersome than a man or a woman ever could become?

The man who occupies the first place seldom plays the principal part.

Public business must always be done by somebody. It will be done by somebody or other. If wise man decline, others will not; if honest man refuse it, others will not.

When each man sets his own house in order, the whole world will be in order.

It's a hard world, neighbors, if a man's oath must be his master.

Man becomes virtually an automaton in the loss of his individuality and responsibility. He is the harp of a thousand strings played upon by a divine hand, but not a man!

I cannot bear to think that our young men are merely living four years in a country club and spending their lives wholly in a spirit of calculation and snobbishness.

Man is emphatically self-made.

If we are disappointed that men give little heed to what we utter is it for their sake or our own?

No man will ever be a big executive who feels that he must, either openly or under cover, follow up every order he gives and see that it is done-nor will he ever develop a capable assistant.

Don't believe that jazz about there's nothing you can do, "turn on and drop out, man" - because you've got to turn on and drop in, or they're going to drop all over you.

It is sad, indeed, to see how man wastes his opportunities. How many could be made happy, with the blessings which are recklessly wasted or thrown away.

It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens.

Ah, why should all mankind For one man's fault, be condemned, If guiltless?

The man who says to one, go, and he goeth, and to another, come, and he cometh, has, in most cases, more sense of restraint and difficulty than the man who obeys him.

A kind of second childhood falls on so many men. They trade their violence for the promise of a small increase of life span. In effect, the head of the house becomes the youngest child.

But you must give him some sign, some sign that you love him... or he'll never be a man. All his life he'll feel guilty and alone unless you release him.

Men seem to be born with a debt they can never pay no matter how hard they try.

Man has become our greatest hazard, and our only hope.