Quotes about Responsibility

Shame arises from the fear of man; conscience from the fear of God.

A church debt is the devil's salary.

Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and inexcusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let men label you as they may.

We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.

Every dog is entitled to one bite.

He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses, though he be not drunk.

To do my duty in that state of life unto which it shall please God to call me.

It is thy duty oftentimes to do what thou wouldst not; thy duty, too, to leave undone that thou wouldst do.

No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty.

He who is shipwrecked twice is foolish to blame the sea.

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as they tie their cravats, there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little.