“Agency is the power to think, choose, and act for ourselves. It comes with endless opportunities, accompanied by responsibility and consequences. It is a blessing and a burden. Using this gift of agency wisely is critical today because never in the world's history have God's children been so blessed or so blatantly confronted with so many choices.” ThinkingWorldChildrenTodayChoicesOpportunityResponsibilityBlessingConsequenceBlessedBurdenCriticalEndlessAgencyEndless Opportunities Author:Sharon G. Larsen
“We need to take responsibility for the effect of our environment on our nervous systems, and particularly the nervous systems of our children. No wonder so many of them are diagnosed with all the stuff they're diagnosed with today. Modern technology is a blessing to be sure, but it's also a curse if we allow it to pull us out of our spiritual center. A 24 hour electronic onslaught comes at the expense of our deep humanity and our deepest relationships.” IfsNeedsChildrenTodaySpiritualHumanityStuffHoursResponsibilityWonderTechnologyEnvironmentModernEffectsBlessingOur ChildrenNervousCurseExpensesTaking ResponsibilityOur EnvironmentNervous SystemModern Technology Author:Marianne Williamson
“We seek your blessings and we seek your support. On one side there is the Shahzada and on the other side there is a tea seller. There is Namdaar and there is a Kamdaar. But we assure that after assuming responsibility we will not rest for a minute. All the time will be for the people.” PeopleSidesResponsibilitySupportDemocracyMinutesBlessingIndiaElectionAssumingTeaSellersAssuming Responsibility Author:Narendra Modi
“Everyone in the full enjoyment of all the blessings of his life, in his normal condition, feels some individual responsibility forthe poverty of others. When the sympathies are not blunted by any false philosophy, one feels reproached by one's own abundance.” FeelsPhilosophyIndividualResponsibilityPovertyConditionsBlessingNormalEnjoymentAbundanceSympathySocial ResponsibilityIndividual Responsibility Book:Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences, 1815-1897 Source: Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences, 1815-1897
“I'm a producer on my show, which is great, but it's also kind of a mixed blessing because there's so much responsibility. Everything is a decision. You have to worry about the money, you have to worry about daylight, who we're going to cast and if this location doesn't work out, what are we going to do?” IfsKindShowsDecisionResponsibilityWorryBlessingCastsWork OutProducersLocationDaylight Author:Demetri Martin
“If the blessings of our political and social condition have not been too highly estimated, we cannot well overrate the responsibility and duty which they impose upon us. We hold these institutions of government, religion, and learning, to be transmitted, as well as enjoyed. We are in the line of conveyance, through which whatever has been obtained by the spirit and efforts of our ancestors is to be communicated to our children.” IfsWellsChildrenHas BeensGovernmentPoliticalSpiritSocialLinesEffortResponsibilityConditionsDutyBlessingOur ChildrenInstitutionsEnjoyedVotingAncestorSocial Conditions Book:The Life, Eulogy, and Great Orations of Daniel Webster Source: The Life, Eulogy, and Great Orations of Daniel Webster
“While our institutional mission and destiny are not in doubt, how we each participate and understand our individual responsibilities requires constant attention, effort, and vigilance. BYU will progress and prosper, but our individual success is not guaranteed without our own personal best efforts and worthily received blessings.” IndividualEffortAttentionResponsibilityDestinyDoubtProgressBlessingConstantMissionsVigilanceBest EffortIndividual ResponsibilityByuPersonal BestIndividual Success Author:Cecil O. Samuelson
“No better blessing than the responsibility of fatherhood.” ResponsibilityBlessingFatherhood Author:Stephen Curry
“I stay balanced by remembering to prioritize. What is most important should never be railroaded by the "tyranny of the urgent." My relationship with God, my devotion to my husband, my responsibilities to my children, loving others, and, of course, remaining grateful for the blessings that I have. Like getting to do what I love for a living. And trust me, I am.” ShouldChildrenImportantRememberCoursesResponsibilityBlessingHusbandGratefulTyrannyDevotionMy ChildrenMy HusbandBalancedUrgentTrust MeRelationship With GodPrioritizeLoving Others Author:Maria Canals Barrera
“I think that we have a unique opportunity as performers and artists to be kind of the town criers and also to get more people to listen, so that's a blessing and a responsibility that I take very seriously.” PeopleThinkingKindArtistOpportunityResponsibilityBlessingUniqueTownsBe KindPerformersUnique Opportunities Author:Bonnie Raitt
“People assume that because I'm a celebrity and have this platform that I always know what I'm talking about. I guess I don't always know what I'm talking about because I'm a kid who's trying to figure it out amid all the chaos of the world at large, and also the chaos of having this voice and responsibility. At the same time, this voice and responsibility has been the biggest blessing because I'm able to create change just by posting something on Instagram. That's really amazing. I can't believe that I get to have that megaphone and I get to decide how to use it.” PeopleWorldTryingBelieveKidsResponsibilityBlessingAssumingChaosReally Amazing Author:Amandla Stenberg
“A sense that with the blessings that God bestowed upon this land, came the responsibility to make the world a better place.” WorldResponsibilityLandBlessingBetter Place Author:Marco Rubio
“You are doing God's work. You are doing it wonderfully well. He is blessing you, and He will bless you, --even--no, -especially--when your days and your nights may be most challenging. Like the woman who anonymously, meekly, perhaps even with hesitation and some embarrassment, fought her way through the crowd just to touch the hem of the Master's garment, so Christ will say to the women who worry and wonder and weep over their responsibility as mothers, `Daughter, be of good comfort; thy faith hath made thee whole.' And it will make your children whole as well.” WayWellsMayChildrenMadeWholeMotherNightChristChallengesResponsibilityWonderWorryMastersComfortBlessingDaughterCrowdsTheeYour ChildrenBlessEmbarrassmentGarmentsHesitationMother DaughterHemBlessing You Author:Jeffrey R. Holland
“There is no greater blessing that you can have than to stand as a proxy in a great service to those who have gone beyond. And it will be your privilege and your opportunity and your responsibility to live worthy to go to the temple of the Lord and be baptized in behalf of someone else.” OpportunityResponsibilityLordGoneGreaterBlessingPrivilegeWorthyTemplesBehalfBaptizedGreat ServiceProxyBaptized In Author:Gordon B. Hinckley
“Not perhaps until later life, until the follies, passions, and selfishness of youth have died out, do we . . . recognize the the inestimable blessing, the responsibility awful as sweet, of possessing or of being a friend.” RealPassionResponsibilityYouthSweetBlessingDiedAwfulSelfishnessFollyReal FriendsPossessing Author:Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
“You have to take the responsibility totally, that it is you who decides either to be in misery or to be in blessing. If you want misery, have more desires. If you want a blissfulness, then learn the art - even for few moments - of being desireless, and you will be surprised. Even for a few moments, if you are desireless, all anguish, all anxiety disappears. And you are so contented, so fulfilled, that you cannot ask for more. Your blessing is so much that you can only say that you bless the whole existence. Still it will be there. It is so much; it is overflowing.” IfsWantArtStillsWholeMomentsDesireAsksExistenceResponsibilityBlessingAnxietyMiseryDisappearBlessFulfilledAnguish Author:Rajneesh
“America, our endless blessings bestow an enduring burden. But as Americans, we welcome our responsibility to lead.” AmericaResponsibilityBlessingEndureBurdenEndlessWelcomeIslamic Author:Barack Obama
“Giving is a responsibility. It is an opportunity. And it is a blessing for every follower of Jesus Christ.” GivingOpportunityJesusChristResponsibilityBlessingJesus ChristFollowers Author:Greg Laurie