Karl G. Maeser Quotes

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

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

We can't go out and tell ourselves we've done good if we haven't.

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

I am a combat leader. As such I am responsible for everything that is done in my unit. I just wish that our civilian leaders would accept the same kind of responsibility.

The Church emphasis responsibility more than rights.

I don't have to justify my behaviour.

There is no power or authority without responsibility, and he who accepts the one cannot escape or evade the other.

A common lament of the World War II generation is the absence today of personal responsibility

We cannot abdicate our conscience to an organization, nor to a government. 'Am I my brother's keeper?' Most certainly I am! I cannot escape my responsibility by saying the State will do all that is necessary. It is a tragedy that nowadays so many think and feel otherwise.

A man should not play the coward to his deeds. He should not repudiate them once he has performed them. Pangs of conscience are indecent.

It is pretty hard to talk about responsibility unless you have exercised it yourself.

It is the responsibility of every human to know their actions and the consequences of their actions and to ask questions and to question things when they are wrong.

We all know our duty better than we discharge it.

Each person is responsible only for his or her own sins. Even the Christian doctrine of 'original sin' does not mean that humans are punished for the sin of the first human pair but, rather, that humans seem inevitably to copy the sin of the first human pair.

In football, it's the job of the player to play, the coach to coach, the official to officiate. Each guy is charged with upholding his end, nothing more. In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life - or at least the way life should be.

I think the greater responsibility, in terms of morality, is where leadership begins.

A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility.

You can't, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty.

I have impeached myself by resigning.

We are responsible for actions performed in response to circumstances for which we are not responsible.

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

'The Author' is a play about responsibility, how active we are as spectators and how responsible we are for what we choose to look at.

Every human must take responsibility for his actions.

I feel like I have to be responsible for what I'm participating in or putting out into the world.