Responsibility Quotes

“What e'er thou art, act well thy part.”

“'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.”

“Tis in ourselves that we are thus, or thus.”

“Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.”

“O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant.”

“Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners: so that if we will plant nettles, or sow lettuce, set hyssop and weed up tine, supply it with one gender of herbs, or distract it with many, either to have it sterile with idleness, or manured with industry, why, the power and corrigible authority of this lies in our wills.”

“The undeserver may sleep when the man of action is called on.”

“The let-alone lies not in your good will.”

“It is the cowish terror of his spirit that dares not undertake; he'll not feel wrongs which tie him to an answer.”

“There should be hours for necessities, not for delights; times to repair our nature with comforting repose, and not for us to waste these times.”

“Take heed, dear heart, of this large privilege; The hardest knife ill-used doth lose his edge.”

“Let us our lives, our souls,Our debts, our careful wives,Our children, and our sins, lay on the King!”

“It is a heretic that makes the fire, Not she which burns in it.”

“Tis our fast intent To shake all cares and business from our age, Conferring them on younger strengths, while we Unburdened crawl toward death.”

“The patient must minister to himself”

“Words pay no debts, give her deeds.”

“It is commonly observed that a sudden wealth, like a prize drawn in a lottery or a large bequest to a poor family, does not permanently enrich. They have served no apprenticeship to wealth, and with the rapid wealth come rapid claims which they do not know how to deny, and the treasure is quickly dissipated.”

“Macbeth: How does your patient, doctor? Doctor: Not so sick, my lord, as she is troubled with thick-coming fancies that keep her from rest. Macbeth: Cure her of that! Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, raze out the written troubles of the brain, and with some sweet oblivious antidote cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff which weighs upon her heart. Doctor: Therein the patient must minister to himself.”

“Omittance is no quittance.”

“The tendencies of the times favor the idea of self-government, and leave the individual, for all code, to the rewards and penalties of his own constitution, which work with more energy than we believe, whilst we depend on artificial restraints.”

“Plato says that the punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is, to live under the government of worse men; and the like regret is suggested to all the auditors, as the penalty of abstaining to speak,--that they shall hear worse orators than themselves.”

“A light wife doth make a heavy husband.”

“Freedom is not the right to live as we please, but the right to find how we ought to live in order to fulfill our potential.”

“Freedom is not the right to do as you please, but the liberty to do as you should.”

“To lapse in fulness Is sorer than to lie for need, and falsehood Is worse in kings than beggars.”