Rollo May Quotes

It is a sin not to do what one is capable of doing.

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

Power always brings with it responsibility.

Those who have the ability to take action have the responsibility to take action.

We tend to think that people are more to blame for their acts than for their omissions.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

The man with the ball is responsible for what happens to the ball.

Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

We are all responsible for our actions and our failures to act.

Tom Clarke is dead. He has not our responsibilities. Nobody will ever know what he would do for the situation did not arise for him. But is has risen for us and we must face it with our intelligence and conscious of our responsibility.

Men must be either the slaves of duty, or the slaves of force.

... The future is very markedly in your hands, its value and its moral standing in the world and among ourselves. If you will take the power you have and use it, I have no fear of the outcome of the future.

The issue is not whether or not you have that power, the issue is whether or not you use it.

No. Not really. A weapon didn't come to an agreement with the hand that held it.

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

Iorek Byrnison: Can is not the same as must. Lyra Silvertongue: But if you must and you can, then there's no excuse.

If you have the ability to do something, you should do it.

I don't know whether the bird you are holding is dead or alive, but what I do know is that it is in your hands. It is in your hands.

Without duty, life is soft and boneless.

A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.

It would be immoral to walk away from the consequences of our actions, leaving behind anarchy and civil war in Iraq.

Power should be reserved for weightlifting and boats, and leadership really involves responsibility.

Everyone has power. But it doesn't help if you don't use it.

Unfortunately, in today's world we have to be reminded that the power of an oath derives from the fact that in it we ask God to bear witness to the promises we make with the implicit expectation that He will hold us accountable for the manner in which we honor them.

Consult duty not events.