Vance Havner Quotes

Responsibility is the possibility of opportunity culminating in inevitable fulfillment.

For duty, duty must be done; The rule applies to everyone.

Your sense of responsibility to others can never be excessive.

With this honor devolves upon you also a corresponding responsibility. As the country herein trusts you, so under God it will sustain you.

Duty is one and invariable; it requires no impossibilities, nor can it ever be disregarded with impunity.

I will never do a record without some sense of responsibility.

Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.

All power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise.

If you accept the privilege of public service, you had better understand the responsibilities of public service.

The Church emphasis responsibility more than rights.

I feel like I have to share whatever I can. You're culpable if you don't act.

We have that responsibility to look out for those who haven't had the road and the success that we have.

Let us never forget the duty, which we have taken upon us

Duty is but a pot. It holds whatever is put in it, from the greatest evil to the greatest good.

Nothing, that is say no one, can be such an inexorable tour-conductor as one's own conscience or sense of duty, if one allows either the upper hand: the self-bullying that goes on in the name of sight-seeing is grievous.

A man can give up a right, but he may not give up a duty without being guilty of a grave dereliction.

Duty does not consist in suffering everything, but in suffering everything for duty. Sometimes, indeed, it is our duty not to suffer.

If you can't look after something in your care, you have no right to keep it.

One must require from each one the duty which each one can perform. Accepted authority rests first of all on reason.

Much has been given us, and much will rightfully be expected from us. We have duties to others and duties to ourselves; and we can shrink neither.

Freedom is not constituted primarily of privileges but of responsibilities.

We need to restore the full meaning of that old word, duty. It is the other side of rights.

A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.

Each one of us has to take responsibility for reality, and present it so that kids will grow up familiar with that and say, OK. I've seen that before. I'm not afraid of it.

If anyone thinks he has no responsibilities, it is because he has not sought them out.