Quotes about Responsibility
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
Ultimate freedom is a man's right to choose his attitude.
— Viktor E. Frankl
Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.
— Hannah More
Can any man or woman choose duties? No more than they can choose their birthplace or their father and mother.
— George Eliot
It is in the middle that human choices are made; the beginning and the end remain with God. The decrees of God are birth and death, and in between those limits man makes his own distress or joy.
— Oswald Chambers
It was never in my heart to slight any man, but only that man should be kept in his place and not sit in the room of God.
— Anne Hutchinson
Man is the only living species that has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.
— Ayn Rand