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Quotes About Responsibility

The test of a government is not how popular it is with the powerful and privileged few but how honestly and fairly it deals with the many who must depend on it.
~ Jimmy Carter
To sin is a human business, to justify sins is a devilish business.
~ Leo Tolstoy
The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right.
~ William Safire
He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.
~ Charles Peguy
Be sure to live up to your reputation for honesty and goodness, because many souls who believe you to be honest and good have placed themselves in your hands.
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
Once you place that crown of liar on your head, you can take it off again, but it leaves a stain for all time.
~ Terry Goodkind
An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
~ Alexander Pope
A bright future beckons. The onus is on us, through hard work, honesty and integrity, to reach for the stars.
~ Nelson Mandela
You have to pretend like you want to use a condom. I like to say something fun when I bring it up, but honest. I'll be like, 'You're going to want to wear this. I've had a busy month.
~ Amy Schumer
Things have no power that humans don't put there.
~ Terry Pratchett
I have three daughters and I find as a result I played King Lear almost without rehearsal.
~ Peter Ustinov
Honesty is an active verb, not a passive noun. Go out of your way to be truthful, beginning with the things that you say to yourself.
~ Joe Tye
It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.
~ Albert Einstein
TV is a major force in our lives - a FORCE. It must be handled very carefully, both its censure and its artistic honesty.
~ Bill Bixby
He who prorogues the honesty of today till to-morrow will probably prorogue his to-morrows to eternity.
~ Johann Kaspar Lavater
Everybody makes honest mistakes, but there's no such thing as an honest cover-up.
~ Price Pritchett
It is an eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that where one member suffers, all the members suffer with it
~ Jimmy Buffett
Honesty, capacity, and industry are nowhere more indispensable than in public employment.
~ William McKinley
I don't want to be a hero, I don't want to ever let you down.
~ Ozzy Osbourne
We must neither behave as children by resisting honesty, nor allow ourselves to be treated as children by having honesty withheld.
~ John H. McWhorter
When I go home, I try to raise my children with honesty and integrity and teach them to take care of the world and of each other.
~ Kevin Bacon
The fun of talk is to explore, but much of it and all that is irresponsible should not be written. Once written you have to stand by it. You may have said it to see whether you believed it or not.
~ Ernest Hemingway
fishing teaches a stern morality; inculcates a remorseless honesty.
~ Virginia Woolf
Vote to protect your family. Vote for honesty, integrity, and accountability.
~ Rush Limbaugh