Quotes about Responsibility

The well-meaning white people, I said, had to combat, actively and directly, the racism in other white people. And

I got on top of a car and began waving my arms and yelling at them to quiet down. They did quiet down, and then I asked them to disperse - and they did.

He said, one time, that no true leader burdened his followers with a greater load than they could carry, and no true leader sets too fast a pace for his followers to Keep up.

If unwilling to rise in the morning, say to thyself, 'I awake to do the work of a man.

Remember how long you have been putting off these things, and how often you have received an opportunity from the gods, and yet do not use it.

He who eats my bread does my will.

How ridiculous not to flee from one's own wickedness, which is possible, yet endeavour to flee from another's, which is not.

He that sinneth, sinneth unto himself. He that is unjust, hurts himself, in that he makes himself worse than he was before. Not he only that committeth, but he also that omitteth something, is oftentimes unjust.

Justice: so that you'll speak the truth, frankly and without evasions, and act as you should—and as other people deserve.

If you were asked to spell the name Antoninus, would you rap out each letter at the top of voice, and then, if your hearers grew angry, grow angry yourself in turn? Rather, would you not proceed to enumerate the several letters quietly one by one? Well then; remember that here in life every piece of duty is likewise made up of its separate items. Pay careful attention to each of these, without fuss and without returning temper for temper, and so ensure the methodical completion of your task.

Who himself is not the cause of his own unrest? Reflect how no one is hampered by any other; and that all is as thinking makes it so.

I have no right to do myself an injury. Have I ever injured anyone else if I could avoid it?