Quotes about Responsibility
Sometimes my sin is not what I do; it also describes what I don't do when I know I should.
— Thomas a Kempis
We shall not be asked what we have read but what we have done; not how well we have spoken but how well we have lived.
— Thomas a Kempis
If you take on too much, your overcommitted schedules will become monsters that interfere with my agenda for you.
— Thomas a Kempis
a surety, at the Day of Judgment it will be demanded of us, not what we have read, but what we have done; not how well we have spoken, but how holily we have lived.
— Thomas a Kempis
On the day of judgment, surely, we shall not be asked what we have read but what we have done; not how well we have spoken but how well we have lived.
— Thomas a Kempis
Of a surety, at the Day of Judgment it will be demanded of us, not what we have read, but what we have done; not how well we have spoken, but how holily we have lived.
— Thomas a Kempis
Justice is in subjects as well as in rulers.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Man has free choice, or otherwise counsels, exhortations, commands, prohibitions, rewards and punishments would be in vain.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Shepherds of the flock should . . . seek the good of their flock, and every ruler the good of the people subject to him.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
The rich do not act improperly if they before others take possession of property that was in the beginning common and share the property with others. But the rich sin if they indiscriminately prevent others from using the property.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
O Liberty...! is it well To leave the gates unguarded?
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich