Quotes about Responsibility
A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
— Joseph Addison
Where one man reads the Bible, a hundred read you and me.
— DL Moody
Let every man, every corporation, and especially let every village, town, and city, every county and State, get out of debt and keep out of debt. It is the debtor that is ruined by hard times.
— Rutherford B. Hayes
Every man's happiness is his own responsibility.
— Abraham Lincoln
No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
— GK Chesterton
If there be a man before me who says that the wrath of God is too heavy a punishment for his little sin, I ask him, if the sin be little, why does he not give it up?
— Charles Spurgeon
Untilled ground, however rich, will bring forth thistles and thorns; so also the mind of man.
— Teresa of Avila
A politician is a man who understands government, and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead 10 or 15 years.
— Harry S. Truman
Not stones, nor wood, nor the art of artisans make a state; but where men are who know how to take care of themselves, these are cities and walls.
— John Quincy Adams
It is infinitely easier to suffer in obedience to a human command than to accept suffering as free, responsible men.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
At the day of Doom men shall be judged according to their fruits. It will not be said then, did you believe? But, were you doers or talkers only?
— John Bunyan
We make men without chests and expect from them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.
— CS Lewis