Quotes about Responsibility

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.

Let no guilty man escape, if it can be avoided. No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty.

Let wickedness escape as it may at the bar, it never fails of doing justice upon itself; for every guilty person is his own hangman.

Happy [is] the man who knows his duties!

Being asked one day what was the surest way of remaining happy in this world, the Emperor Sigismund of Germany replied: "Only do in health what you have promised to do when you were sick."

Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth.

Each man is his own absolute lawgiver and dispenser of glory or gloom to himself, the maker of his life, his reward, his punishment.

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labours of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received.