responsibility Quotes

If we can choose to do something, we can also choose not to do it.

One citizen differs from another, but the salvation of the community is the common business of them all. This community is the constitution; the virtue of the citizen must therefore be relative to the constitution of which he is a... ...

Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

Character gives us qualities, but it is in our actions — what we do — that we are happy or the reverse.

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

We are the sum of our actions, and therefore our habits make all the difference.

Every man should be responsible to others, nor should anyone be allowed to do just as he pleases; for where absolute freedom is allowed there is nothing to restrain the evil which is inherent in every man. But the principle... ...

Worthless persons appointed to have supreme control of weighty affairs do a lot of damage.

No one chooses what does not rest with himself, but only what he thinks can be attained by his own act.

Those that deem politics beneath their dignity are doomed to be governed by those of lesser talents.