#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.”

“What is well done, I feel as if I did; what is ill-done, I reck not of.”

“To give money to a sufferer is only a come-off. It is only a postponement of the real payment, a bribe paid for silence, a creditsystem in which a paper promise to pay answers for the time instead of liquidation. We owe to man higher succors than food and fire. We owe to man.”

“Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper,Thy head, thy sovereign; one that cares for thee,And for thy maintenance commits his bodyTo painful labour both by sea and land,To watch the night in storms, the day in cold,Whilst thou liest warm at home, secure and safe;And craves no other tribute at thy handsBut love, fair looks and true obedience;Too little payment for so great a debt.”

“Government exists to defend the weak and the poor and the injured party; the rich and the strong can better take care of themselves.”

“Always pay; for first or last you must pay your entire debt.”

“No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.”

“A man must keep an eye on his servants, if he would not have them rule him.”

“A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life.”

“Where is he who seeing a thousand men useless and unhappy, and making the whole region forlorn by their inaction, and conscious himself of possessing the faculty they want, does not hear his call to go and be their king?”

“Omission to do what is necessary Seals a commission to a blank of danger; And danger, like an ague, subtly taints Even then when we sit idly in the sun.”

“Make for the children an evening of happiness in a world of storm. Let the children have their night of fun and laughter... resolved that by our daring, these same children shall not be denied their right to live in a free and decent world.”

“It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we must do what is required.”

“Things do not get better by being left alone.”

“When something goes wrong, accuse yourself first. Even the wisdom of Plato or Solomon can wobble and go blind”

“This body, full of faults, Has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.”

“I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar.”

“The State is our neighbors; our neighbors are the State.”

“Many have been led astray by the Qur'an: by clinging to that rope many have fallen into the well. There is no fault in the rope, O perverse man, for it was you who had no desire to reach the top.”

“There is something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty.”

“If we look to our responsibility to the generations yet unborn who will come after us, how can we fail to recognize that peace and freedom are inextricably bound up one with another and that the threat to one is a threat to both”

“We must recognise that we have a great inheritance in our possession, which represents the prolonged achievement of the centuries; that there is not one of our simple uncounted rights today for which better men than we are have not died on the scaffold or the battlefield. We have not only a great treasure; we have a great cause. Are we taking every measure within our power to defend that cause?”

“That man is idle who can do something better.”

“A lot of people have a sense-of-entitlement mentality that somebody else ought to do these things for them. People are mad at the government for not getting jobs for them. I don't understand why it's the government's responsibility.”

“One of the most responsible things you can do as an adult is to become more of a child.”

“With opportunity comes responsibility.”