Quotes about Responsibility
There's always pressure. People's happiness depends on you; they suffer with you. You get used to it, but you have to know how to handle it.
— Juan Mata
For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
— Wendell Berry
It's not our job to choose the best Sunday school teacher, like Jimmy Carter was. It's our job to choose who would defend and protect our nation, who would be the best president.
— Jerry Falwell, Jr.
Those who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good. 'Tis but one step more to think one vote will do no harm.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
As we are, so we do; and as we do, so is it done to us; we are the builders of our fortunes.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Things are in the saddle, And ride mankind.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't trust children with edge tools. Don't trust man, great God, with more power than he has until he has learned to use that little better. What a hell we should make of the world if we could do what we would!
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The man is the head of the house but the woman is the neck that turns the head.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Each man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well - he has changed his market-cart into a chariot of the sun.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
What will you have? quoth God; pay for it, and take it.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing can work me damage except myself; the harm that I sustain I carry about with me, and never am a real sufferer but by my own fault.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson