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Quotes About Responsibility

Over the times thou hast no power. . . . Solely over one man thou hast quite absolute power. Him redeem and make honest.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Dally not with other folk's spouses or money.
~ Benjamin Franklin
It is up to each voter to evaluate honesty and competency in a factual, therefore fair way.
~ Bill O'Reilly
When one wanted one's interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to be over honest, else he might not be up to other people's tricks.
~ George Eliot
The smart employer looks not for perfection but for an explanation of how the consequences of a dishonorable act affected the candidate and others.
~ Bruce Weinstein
Maturity is when you're able to say, 'It's not just them. It's me.
~ Criss Jami, Healology
Can I be trusted? Can you? I can be trusted with some things, but not all things, just like you.
~ Donna Lynn Hope
Keeping secrets from your father will only lead to trouble.
~ S.R. Ford, Mimgardr
It is our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them, and have the honesty to say to people, 'There are no easy solutions here.'
~ Malcolm Turnbull
Too often we honor swagger and bluster and the wielders of force; too often we excuse those who are willing to build their own lives on the shattered dreams of others.
~ Robert Kennedy
Do your duty and leave the rest to Providence.
~ Stonewall Jackson
There's no greater challenge and there is no greater honor than to be in public service.
~ Condoleezza Rice
Lord, bring honor to thy Son at my expense, whatever the cost, and send me the bill. It is my reasonable service - He paid mine.
~ Carl Baugh
Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
~ Alexander Pope
There is a true glory and a true honor: the glory of duty done--the honor of the integrity of principle.
~ Robert E. Lee
The honor of a country depends much more on removing its faults than on boasting of its qualities.
~ Giuseppe Mazzini
Pointing fingers, trying to catch each other in scandal does not bring honor to this House.
~ Mark Foley
I will answer anything I can with honor, but not about others.
~ John Brown
Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
~ Ben Jonson
There is never one absolutely right thing to do. All you can do is honor what you believe, accept the consequences of your own actions, and make the best out of what happens.
~ Garth Nix
Honor your commitments with integrity.
~ Les Brown
If there is one thing the past years have taught us, it is the importance of a keen and high sense of honor in those who handle our governmental affairs.
~ Millicent Fenwick
The greater the power that deigns to serve you, the more honor it demands of you.
~ Socrates
There's more honor in investment management than in investment banking.
~ Charlie Munger