responsibility Quotes

Better a broken promise than none at all.

The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.

One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.

Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.

If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.

When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.