Quotes about Responsibility

You cannot imagine a more certain rule or a more powerful suggestion than this, that all the blessings we enjoy are divine deposits which we have received on this condition that we distribute them to others.

If it seems more horrible to kill a man in his own house, then in a field,...it ought surely to be deemed more atrocious to destroy a fetus in the womb before it has come to light.

Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls it tolls for thee.

But I do nothing upon myself, and yet I am my own executioner.

Send not to know For whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee.

Any man's death diminishes me, for I am involved with mankind.

No man is an island, Entire of itself. Each is a piece of the continent, A part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less. As well as if a promontory were. As well as if a manor of thine own Or of thine friend's were. Each man's death diminishes me, For I am involved in mankind. Therefore, send not to know For whom the bell tolls, It tolls for thee.

I never talk about being leaders and all the rest of it. I can only remember one or two occasions in my life when I actually issued orders, and I felt thoroughly miserable after doing it.

Good ball players make good citizens.

The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.

That energy which makes a child hard to manage is the energy which afterwards makes him a manager of life.

The gifts we are given in life require the best of us, not merely our best intentions.