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“We empower ourselves every time we accept responsibility for choosing the thoughts and feelings we act on.”

Feelings Time Responsibility Accepting Empowering Thoughts And Feelings

“Freedom of conscience is a natural right, both antecedent and superior to all human laws and institutions whatever; a right which laws never gave and a right which laws can never take away.”

Humans Reason Law Individual Natural Justice Responsibility Conscience Constitution Independence Institutions Superiors Individual Rights Free Thought

Author:John Goodwin

“It seems to me that women are freed from their responsibilities only when they are merry widows or eccentric old spinsters.”

Seems Women Responsibility Merry Eccentric Widows Spinsters

Book:Soul

Source: Soul

“Companies have a responsibility to train and retrain their employees.”

Responsibility Company Train Employee

Author:Gregory Balestrero

“Attempts to juggle domestic responsibilities with artistic production have often resulted in smaller bodies of work, and often works smaller in scale, than those produced by male contemporaries. Yet art history continues to privilege prodigious output and monumental scale or conception over the selective and the intimate.”

Art Body Responsibility Males Privilege Productions Scales Artistic Intimate Conception Selective Output Art History Prodigious

Book:Women, Art, and Society

Source: Women, Art, and Society

“What is meant here is that man should not become immersed in loving the world which will make him forget the responsibilities that Allah had ordered him to hold, but he has to look at the world in its reality, in which it represents a place for obeying Allah.”

Men World Should Looks Reality Forget Responsibility Obeying

Author:Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah

“The office of Speaker is almost as ancient as Parliament itself. It emerged in the Middle Ages when the Commons - the ordinary people - of England needed a spokesman in their dealings with the King, someone who would voice their grievances and present their petitions. This was by no means a safe or easy thing to do at that time, and potential spokesman generally had to be pressured into accepting the responsibility.”

Source: The House of Commons at Work

“When couples start a family, they give up their personal love to achieve a greater responsibility - to nurture their children into good human beings. Nothing should deter them from that goal until the kids are up on their own feet”

Giving Should Humans Children Kids Goal Human Beings Responsibility Greater Feet Achieve Couple Giving Up Nurture Good Human Being Personal Love

Author:Siddharth Katragadda

“I feel it is our inherent duty as a humane society, above any intangible responsibility, to invest in our world's children's potential, passion and confidence.”

“we have become masters of projection—pushing the responsibility for our own thoughts outward so that the consequences of our thoughts become someone else's problem.”

Problem Responsibility Masters Consequence Pushing Our Thoughts Projection

Book:Inner Tranquility: A Guide to Seated Meditation: 3rd Edition

Source: Inner Tranquility: A Guide to Seated Meditation: 3rd Edition

“The capacity for growth depends on one's ability to internalize and to take personal responsibility. If we forever see our life as a problem caused by others, a problem to be 'solved,' then no change will occur.”

Ifs Problem Growth Ability Responsibility Forever Our Lives Depends Capacity Personal Responsibility

Book:The Middle Passage: From Misery to Meaning in Midlife

Source: The Middle Passage: From Misery to Meaning in Midlife

“Children are 25 percent of the population but 100 percent of the future. If we wish to renew society, we must raise up a generation of children who have strong moral character. And if we wish to do that, we have two responsibilities: first, to model good character in our own lives, and second, to intentionally foster character development in our young.”

Source: Character Matters: How to Help Our Children Develop Good Judgment, Integrity, and Other Essential Virtues

“A life of adventure is ours for the taking, whether we're seven or seventy. Life for the most part is what me make it. We have been given a responsibility to live it fully, joyfully, completely, and richly, in whatever span of time God grants us on this earth.”

Has Beens Earth Given Responsibility Adventure Seven Grants Seventies Completeness You Only Live Once One Life To Live Being Joyful

Author:Luci Swindoll

“By believing that only some of our students will ever develop a love of books and reading, we ignore those who do not fall into books and reading on their own. We renege on our responsibility to teach students how to become self-actualized readers. We are selling our students short by believing that reading is a talent and that lifelong reading behaviors cannot be taught.”

Believe Book Self Fall Reading Responsibility Teach Talent Students Taught Reader Behavior Selling Lifelong Books And Reading

Book:Reading in the Wild: The Book Whisperer's Keys to Cultivating Lifelong Reading Habits

Source: Reading in the Wild: The Book Whisperer's Keys to Cultivating Lifelong Reading Habits

“An abuser can seem emotionally needy. You can get caught in a trap of catering to him, trying to fill a bottomless pit. But he's not so much needy as entitled, so no matter how much you give him, it will never be enough. He will just keep coming up with more demands because he believes his needs are your responsibility, until you feel drained down to nothing.”

Needs Giving Feels Trying Believe Matter Enough Seems Responsibility Demand Caught Traps Entitled Pits Needy Drained Abusers Catering

Book:Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men

Source: Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men

“The central attitudes driving the Demand Man are: It's your job to do things for me, including taking care of my responsibilities if I drop the ball on them. If I'm unhappy about any aspect of my life, whether it has to do with our relationship or not, it's your fault. You should not place demands on me at all. You should be grateful for whatever I choose to give. I am above criticism. I am a very loving and giving partner. You're lucky to have me.”

Ifs Men Giving Should Care Jobs Attitude Responsibility Lucky Demand Aspect Criticism Balls Grateful Faults Including Partners Driving Unhappy Our Relationship Be Grateful

Author:Lundy Bancroft

“I think America has a responsibility to maintain its leadership in technology and its moral leadership in the world, to explore, to seek knowledge.”

Thinking World America Responsibility Moral Technology Moral Leadership

Author:Gene Cernan

“If there's anything about someone's life that's important enough to make a movie about it, I have to take responsibility to get all of it right. It's a huge responsibility.”

Ifs Important Enough Responsibility Huge Taking Responsibility

Author:Russell Crowe

“I think the most dangerous word in the English language is 'should.' 'I should have done this.' Or 'I should do that.' 'Should' implies responsibility. It connotes demand. Which is just not the case. Life ebbs and flows.”

Thinking Should Done Language Responsibility Cases Dangerous Demand Flow Should Have Should I English Language Ebb And Flow

Author:Chris Pine

“I haven't had an easy life, but at some point ,you have to take responsibility for yourself and shape who it is that you want to be. I have no time for moaners. I like to chase my dreams and surround myself with other people who are chasing their dreams, too.”

People Want Dream Easy Responsibility Havens Shapes Surround Taking Responsibility Chasing Easy Life

Author:Aimee Mullins

“What I believe unites the people of this nation, regardless of race or region or party, young or old, rich or poor, is the simple, profound belief in opportunity for all - the notion that if you work hard and take responsibility, you can get ahead.”

People Ifs Believe Hard Young Opportunity Belief I Believe Nations Simple Poor Party Race Responsibility Rich Hard Work Profound Notion Regions Taking Responsibility Get Ahead Rich Or Poor

Author:Barack Obama

“I feel like it's my responsibility to honestly cover a lot of subjects in part because I have two little girls and I really want them when they grow up to have a voice.”

Want Feels Littles Two Girl Grows Voice Responsibility Growing Up Subjects Honestly

Author:Carre Otis

“It is a lot of responsibility. But I enjoy being a father. Thats one of the best parts of my life. I feel like, man, thats one of the greatest things Ive got going on, being a father.”

Men Feels Father Enjoy Responsibility Being A Father

Author:T.I.

“My taxes alone keep eight lawyers busy, and when I finally get my money, its only one-third of what I earn. With the kids in school and my other responsibilities, I get no change back from the first million dollars. The money flows out like water.”

Firsts Kids School Water Responsibility Millions Taxes Flow Thirds Dollars Busy Eight Lawyer Million Dollars

Author:Robert Shaw

“But I remember the morning after The Mask of Virtue-which is the first play I did at the West End-that some critics saw fit to be as foolish as to say that I was a great actress. And I thought, that was a foolish, wicked thing to say, because it put such an onus and such a responsibility onto me, which I simply wasn't able to carry. And it took me years to learn enough to live up to what they said-for those first notices. I find it so stupid. I remember the critic very well, and have never forgiven him.”

“I have the students for six hours a day. The community has them for 18 hours, plus prenatal and early childhood. I don't believe the schools create (the achievement gap), but our responsibility is not to add to it. We won't eliminate the gap until the community makes education a priority, but the schools can't wait for the community to do its part.”

Believe School Waiting Community Hours Responsibility Childhood Students Communication Achievement Six Add Don't Believe Priorities Plus Gaps Early Childhood Achievement Gap

Author:Bill Vaughan

“I represent what I think is a traditional Republican... a limited government, fiscal responsibility, strong national defense, individual freedom and liberty.”

Thinking Government Individual Strong Responsibility Liberty Republican Defense Traditional Freedom And Liberty Limited Government Individual Freedom National Defense Fiscal Responsibility

Author:Olympia Snowe

“When I told people I was going to be doing the movie and the voice of Dobby, they were kind of awestruck, the people who knew about Harry Potter. I felt rather guilty that I didn't really understand the scale of the job I was about to take on. Now, I am well aware of what I'm doing, and actually, it feels a very serious acting responsibility.”

People Feels Wells Kind Jobs Felt Voice Acting Responsibility Serious Scales Guilty Harry Potter Old People Potters Awestruck Dobby

Author:Toby Jones

“Barack Obama's daughters are very smart. They told him they will take the same responsibility for the dog that he is taking for the economy. That way, if the dog leaves a mess in the White House, it'll be cleaned up by future generations.”

Ifs Way House White Responsibility Economy Generations Dog Smart Daughter Mess Barack White House Future Generation Very Smart

Author:Jay Leno

“Date a woman with children only if you are ready to man up, because it's a position that comes with responsibility.”

Ifs Men Children Responsibility Position Ready

Author:Taraji P. Henson

“I act once in awhile if something comes up that seems fun. I like to do it - its a lot of fun because theres no responsibility. You let other people have the headaches. The director has all of the headaches.”

People Ifs Seems Fun Responsibility Directors Come Up Headache

Author:Rob Reiner

“I've heard this before from people: early 20s kind of screws with your head a little bit because you're transitioning into adulthood and actually becoming an adult with responsibilities and paying bills. So all of a sudden, it's like you're responsible now.”

People Kind Littles Bits Responsibility Heard Like You Becoming Little Bit Adults Responsible Bills Adulthood Screws Early 20s Becoming An Adult

Author:Dan Byrd

“When our executive producer, Julie Plec, told me I was going to become a hybrid I got really excited. Because theres a lot of responsibility that comes with that, especially in our world of The Vampire Diaries where Tyler is the first successful hybrid thats made.”

World Firsts Made Responsibility Successful Excited Producers Vampire Executives Our World Diaries Hybrid Vampire Diaries

Author:Michael Trevino

“I think the difference between finding happiness, or moments of happiness, is how you choose to interpret things. That's a rather shocking responsibility. That we're responsible for our own happiness. It's not those around us.”

Thinking Moments Differences Responsibility Findings Responsible You Choose Shocking Finding Happiness Moments Of Happiness

Author:Natascha McElhone

“It's different as a guest as opposed to being a star of a series. A guest star is a whole different responsibility. It's much different than being a regular. You come in, and it's a lot of unfamiliar faces, and you want to try to fit in as best you can, but also you want to stay there without making waves.”

Want Trying Different Whole Faces Stars Responsibility Fit Series Wave Guests Unfamiliar Guest Stars

Author:Donnie Wahlberg

“I'm very good at delegating - people work much better when they have a real sense of responsibility. But at the same time, I don't like surprises. I don't pore over every shoot, but I do like to be aware at all times of what's going on.”

People Real Responsibility Surprise Very Good All Time Sense Of Responsibility

Author:Anna Wintour

“I use that as my responsibility on the show, to be the pragmatist.”

Use Shows Responsibility Pragmatists

Author:Fisher Stevens

“Take personal responsibility. A lot of people go, 'Well, I'll get a dog because I have a kid and a kid needs a dog.' And it doesn't work out for that dog and the dog is on the street.”

People Needs Wells Kids Responsibility Streets Dog Work Out Personal Responsibility

Author:Betty White

“When you have parents who are a little out of their minds, somebody has to take responsibility.”

Mind Littles Parent Responsibility Taking Responsibility

Author:Shannon Woodward

“We only live once, and how would you want to be remembered? I have kids. I have, due to my job, a probably higher responsibility to do good things in my life. But also, since I was a kid, I love doing things out of context, helping friends, being different, being a special kind of man is important for me.”

Men Want Kind Important Different Helping Kids Jobs Responsibility Special Higher Good Things Dues Remembered Being Different Of Context

Author:Gilles Marini

“I was powerless over my childhood but the coping strategies that I developed, to survive, all of which were creative and brilliant and got me through, as an adult those became my defects of character. Those became my shortcomings, control and all that kind of stuff... and that's my responsibility. I was a blameless child in what happened in the home; I take responsibility for my behaviors as an adult.”

“One can pass on responsibility, but not the discretion that goes with it.”

Responsibility Discretion

Book:The Autobiography

Source: The Autobiography

“I invite you, from my sentiments, my convictions and my responsibilities, to work together in the construction of a Uruguay where being young is not suspicious, where aging is not a problem.”

Problem Together Young Responsibility Aging Conviction Working Together Sentiments Invites Construction Suspicious

Author:Tabare Vazquez

“How much ... did the volume of disease in a nation account for its spirit? If so, the eradication of sickness, as far as it was possible, was a responsibility a democracy must assume for its people.”

People Ifs Care Spirit Nations Responsibility Democracy Disease Accounts Assuming Illness Health Care Sickness Volume

Author:Alice Tisdale Hobart

“Over the course of my career as both an actress and an author, I have met many wanna-bes. I distinguish the wannas from the gonnas because the WBs all think someone else is to blame for their problems. ... By contrast, GBs say: 'What? There's no door here? I'll build one.”

Thinking Problem Courses Responsibility Careers Doors Mets Blame Actresses Contrast

Author:K Callan

“Never, under any circumstances, accept a position of responsibility. You will be forced to work harder with no other benefits than a few extra bucks - 'peanuts,' as they say, if that.”

Ifs Work Responsibility Accepting Position Hard Work Circumstances Benefits Harder Extras Bucks Work Harder Peanuts

Book:Bonjour Laziness: Why Hard Work Doesn't Pay

Source: Bonjour Laziness: Why Hard Work Doesn't Pay

“You can never be free from limitation until you are willing to recognize that you and you alone are responsible for what you are. After you have passed infancy you are not a victim of anything but your own thinking.”

Thinking Responsibility Willing Responsible Victim Limitation Infancy

Author:Margery Wilson

“Women also lose sight of their goals by taking on extra responsibilities. We are virtual responsibility magnets. We don't make these decisions consciously or deliberately, but out of the fear that if we don't act on a need, it will never get resolved. ... But we fail to realize that once we become responsible for something, we may be responsible to it forever.”

Ifs Needs May Goal Realizing Loses Decision Responsibility Forever Failing Sight Responsible Extras Being Responsible Magnet

Book:Hardball for Women: Revised Edition

Source: Hardball for Women: Revised Edition

“It is the Fourth Instinct (the spirit - RJ) that urges us to exceed ourselves ... by awakening our intuitive selves, and striving to be all that we were intended to be. It takes us beyond self-centeredness and enables us to resist the combined forces of indifference and meaninglessness. It awakens us to a sense of responsibility for those most in need of our society as well as for that world that future generations will inherit.”

“I'm definitely a vintage collector. I have a wardrobe of core basics that I like to spice up with different colors, new accessories, and I love to try on new things to invite something different. I find, with every new stage of my life, my self-image shifts with new duties and responsibilities, and so does my fashion style.”

Trying Doe Different Self Responsibility Stage Fashion Style Color Duty Core Invites New Things Spices Wardrobe Collectors Vintage Basics Accessories Different Colors Fashion Style

Author:Camila Alves

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