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“When a Krishna Conscious person is elevated to a responsible position, he never becomes puffed up. Just like a tree when over-laden with fruits becomes humble and lower down. Similarly, a great soul in Krishna Consciousness becomes humbler than the grass and bowed down like the fruitful trees because a Krishna Conscious person acts as the agent of Krishna, therefore he discharges his duty with great responsibility.”

Persons Soul Consciousness Responsibility Tree Position Humility Duty Conscious Responsible Fruit Humble Agents Grass Krishna Discharge Great Souls Great Responsibility

Author:A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

“Whatever may be the position in life of a parent, it is his duty to share his crust with his children. If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.”

Ifs Want Wells May Children Done Parent Share Position Duty Things Done Do It Yourself

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“Seeing clearly within himself and always able to dodge around the ends of any position, including his own, Shaw assumed from the start the dual role of prophet and gadfly. To his contemporaries it appeared frivolous and contradictory to perform as both superman and socialist, sceptic and believer, legalist and heretic, high-brow and mob-orator. But feeling the duty to teach as well as to mirror mankind, Shaw did not accept himself as a contradictory being.”

Wells Ends Feelings Able Accepting Roles Teach Seeing Mankind Position Duty Mirrors Including Believer Prophet Socialist Contradictory Brows Heretic Frivolous Orators Dodge Sceptic Gadflies

Author:Jacques Barzun

“My brother had just been appointed Secretary of Nevada Territory--an office of such majesty that it concentrated in itself the duties and dignities of Treasurer, Comptroller, Secretary of State, and Acting Governor in the Governor's absence. A salary of eighteen hundred dollars a year and the title of "Mr. Secretary," gave to the great position an air of wild and imposing grandeur. I was young and ignorant, and I envied my brother.”

Source: 10 Books in 1

“Whatever our place allotted to us by Providence that for us is the post of honor and duty. God estimates us, not by the position we are in, but by the way in which we fill it.”

Way Position Duty Honor Posts Providence

Book:The World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best Authors

Source: The World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best Authors

“I believe it is the responsibility and duty of those in high-profile positions to give a voice to people whose voices cannot be heard.”

People Giving Believe I Believe Voice Responsibility Heard Position Duty Activism Profile Speaking Up High Profile

Author:Donatella Versace

“Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated.”

Life Giving Order Leadership Position Duty Command Live Your Life Humiliation Humiliated

Author:Dag Hammarskjold

“One reason--perhaps the chief--of the virility of the Roosevelts is [their] very democratic spirit. They have never felt that because they were born in a good position they could put their hands in their pockets and succeed. They have felt, rather, that being born in a good position, there is no excuse for them if they did not do their duty by the community.”

Ifs Reason Hands Spirit Felt Born Community Society Position Duty Succeed Democratic Excuse Chiefs Pockets No Excuses

Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt

“At present I feel like a caged animal, bound up by the luxury, comfort and respectability of my position. I can't get the training that I want without neglecting my duty.”

Want Feels I Can Animal Position Duty Comfort Training Bounds Luxury Neglect Respectability Caged Caged Animal

Book:The Diary of Beatrice Webb: Glitter Around and Darkness Within, 1873-1892

Source: The Diary of Beatrice Webb: Glitter Around and Darkness Within, 1873-1892

“Suppose it were perfectly certain that the life and fortune of each of us would some day depend upon our winning or losing a game of chess. Do you not think that we should all consider it to be our primary duty to learn at least the names of the pieces and how to position them on the chessboard?”

Thinking Should Certain Games Winning Names Pieces Position Duty Depends Losing Fortune Chess Primaries Win Or Lose Losing A Game

Author:Aldous Huxley

“You have to be holy in your position as you are, and I have to be holy in the position that God has put me. So it is nothing extraordinary to be holy. Holiness is not the luxury of the few. Holiness is a simple duty for you and for me. We have been created for that.”

Has Beens Simple Position Duty Holy Extraordinary Luxury Holiness

Author:Mother Teresa

“Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be.”

Remember Position Duty Who You Are Obliged Activate

Author:Thomas a Kempis

“The curse should no longer rest upon the world itself, but upon that which is sinful in it, and instead of monastic flight from the world the duty is now emphasized of serving God in the world, in every position in life.”

World Should Position Duty Flight Curse Serving Serving God Monastic Life

Book:Lectures on Calvinism

Source: Lectures on Calvinism