responsibility Quotes

We are masters of our actions from the beginning up to the very end. But, in the case of our habits, we are only masters of their commencement - each particular little increase being as imperceptible as in the case... ...

Where it is in our power to act, it is also in our power to not act.

It has been well said that 'he who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.' The two are not the same, but the good citizen ought to be capable of both; he should know how to govern... ...

The first essential responsibility of the state is control of the market-place: there must be some official charged with the duty of seeing that honest dealing and good order prevail. For one of the well-nigh essential activities of all states... ...

Health is a matter of choice, not a mystery of chance

Character is determined by choice, not opinion.

A man is the origin of his action.

The precepts of the law may be comprehended under these three points: to live honestly, to hurt no man willfully, and to render every man his due carefully.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

Those who teach children well deserve more honor than those who simply give birth to them; parents give life, but teachers provide the skill of living well.