Quotes about Responsibility
Within our awe we only know that all we own we owe.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
No man is free who is not a master of himself, that the more liberties we enjoy, the more discipline we need.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
The obligation falls upon us to foster in ourselves the sensibilities that modernity has suppressed or even denigrated. ... Without awe, our lives are impoverished, our society decays.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
It is in deeds that man becomes aware of what his life really is.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Just as man is not alone in what he is, he is not alone in what he does. A mitsvah is an act which God and man have in common.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
He is in need of the work of man for the fulfillment of His ends in the world.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Rabbi Tarfon said: "You are not called upon to complete the task, yet you are not free to evade it." Whatever we do is only a partial fulfillment; the rest is completed by God.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Every man's happiness is his own responsibility.
— Abraham Lincoln
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God cannot retain it.
— Abraham Lincoln
Let us have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
— Abraham Lincoln
in times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.
— Abraham Lincoln
I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
— Abraham Lincoln