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Quotes About Responsibility

You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.
~ Martial
People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It spares them the ordeal of thinking for themselves and taking responsibility for what they know.
~ Brooks Atkinson
Fear to do ill, and you need fear else.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Fear naturally quickens the flight of guilt.
~ Samuel Johnson
An [officer] is still a human being. When that fear kicks in, you never know what can happen.
~ Method Man
That courage which arises from the sense of our duty, and from the fear of offending Him that made us, acts always in a uniform manner, and according to the dictates of right reason.
~ Joseph Addison
Those who do not fear the sword they wield have no right to wield a sword at all. ~Shuhei Hisagi
~ Tite Kubo
Tears throw a veil over our faults and allow us to accuse fate without fear or contradiction.
~ Italo Svevo
He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
~ Seneca the Younger
They who talk much of destiny, their birth-star, etc., are in a lower dangerous plane, and invite the evils they fear.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
While neurological studies have tried to identify components responsible for fear and greed, the impact on finance is less clear.
~ Andrew Lo
Once you've got a task to do, it's better to do it than live with the fear of it.
~ Joe Abercrombie
With fear of stating the obvious: Freedom belongs to 'We the People,' not 'They the Politicians.'
~ John Ridley
I did my fair share of stupid stuff in high school, like anyone. I had a healthy fear of my parents, and I certainly never wanted to disappoint them. That would be the worst thing I could ever do.
~ Christine Lakin
Take responsibility and make a relationship the best it can be. We're all afraid of being hurt. Get rid of that fear. Be in the moment and enjoy the relationship - or you'll ruin it.
~ Moran Atias
One of the biggest fears of players in a shootout is letting your teammates down.
~ Alan Shearer
It's not the gods But our own hearts We need to fear. The evil starts Against all odds Not there but here.
~ Vikram Seth
We are not accountable for the sins of "Adam".
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
I fear some of our leaders today have lost the courage to stand up. What we have now are politicians. They won't offer real plans, and only stand up when they want to blame someone else.
~ Susana Martinez
We fear doing too little when we should do more. Then atone by doing too much, when perhaps we should do less.
~ Robert Trout
When you get people standing up saying, 'I'm going to just tell the truth; what do we have to fear?,' it encourages others, and it creates a counterresponse.
~ Ron Suskind
Fear keepes and looks to the vineyard, and not the owner.
~ George Herbert
The fear of doing right is the grand treason in times of danger.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
To misuse one's talent, to be cavalier about it, to set it aside because of fear or sloth is unpardonable.
~ James Lee Burke