Quotes about Responsibility
Middle age is when you have a choice of two temptations and choose the one that will get you home earlier.
— Anonymous
A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.
— John Updike
Man is not the creature of circumstances, Circumstances are the creatures of men.
— Benjamin Disraeli
The life of a conscientious clergyman is not easy. I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain. I would rather have chancery suits upon my hands than the cure of souls.
— Samuel Johnson
Conscience is a cur that will let you get past it but that you cannot keep from barking.
— Anonymous
Shame arises from the fear of man; conscience from the fear of God.
— Samuel Johnson
A church debt is the devil's salary.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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.
— Mark Twain
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.
— Anonymous
Every dog is entitled to one bite.
— Anonymous
He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses, though he be not drunk.
— Epictetus
To do my duty in that state of life unto which it shall please God to call me.
— Anonymous