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“There is no undertaking more challenging, no responsibility more awesome, than that of being a mother.”

Mother Challenges Responsibility Undertakings Being A Mother

Author:Gerald R. Ford

“Your ability needs responsibility to expose its possibilities. Do what you can with what you have where you are.”

Needs Ability Responsibility Possibility Where You Are

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“I am just...wondering, where is the glow of yesteryear? I'm wondering where the heroes went. Gosh, I don't know how long ago they left. Heroes are not giant statues framed against a red sky. They are people who say: This is my community, and it is my responsibility to make it better. Interweave all these communities, and you really have an America that is back on its feet, a comfortable nation to live in again. I really think we're gonna have to reassess what constitutes a hero.”

People Thinking Knows Long America Left Nations Community Responsibility Wonder Know How Feet Sky Hero Comfortable Red Giants Long Ago Statues Framed Oregon Yesteryear

Author:Tom McCall

“Every man among us is more fit to meet the duties and responsibilities of citizenship because of the perils over which, in the past, the nation has triumphed; because of the blood and sweat and tears, the labor and the anguish, through which, in the days that have gone, our forefathers moved on to triumph.”

Men Past Nations Responsibility Gone Blood Tears Duty Fit Labor Moved Every Man Triumph Sweat Citizenship Anguish Peril Forefathers Moved On Sweat And Tears Blood And Sweat

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“Having children is a huge responsibility, and I just don't want to hand them off to a nanny or my mom to take care of them.”

Want Children Hands Care Responsibility Huge Mom My Mom Take Care Having Children Nannies

Author:Thalia

“I have made all the calculations; fate will do the rest.”

Made Responsibility Fate Calculations Vigilance Mediocre Minds

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“It is not the responsibility of the enlightened teacher to bring the student to enlightenment. That may be true in the classroom, but in the world of enlightenment you have to find it, enter into it.”

World May Responsibility Teacher Students Enlightenment Being True Enlightened Classroom

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Eve was blamed for the fall of man, and in return all women to come were to inheret her karmic responsibility for the so-called "fall of man". Their punishment was to experience pain in childbirth, and never be trusted by man or God again.”

Men Pain Fall Women Responsibility Return Enlightenment Punishment Trusted Childbirth Fall Of Man

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The great guardian principle of all conduct in the church of God is personal responsibility to the Lord.”

Christian Church Responsibility Lord Principles Guardian Personal Responsibility

Author:John Nelson Darby

“There is a price tag on human liberty. That price is the willingness to assume the responsibilities of being free men. Payment of this price is a personal matter with each of us.”

Men Humans Matter Responsibility Liberty Assuming Willingness Payment Free Man Tag Being Free Price Tag Personal Matter

Author:James Monroe

“I've had my moments of insanity. But there is a certain responsibility to set proper examples for your children, and that influences your choices in every aspect of your life.”

Children Moments Certain Choices Responsibility Influence Example Aspect Insanity Your Children

Author:Andy Garcia

“Yoga means we take responsibility for the tasks in our life. Whatever we are supposed to have karmically, life gives us. The question is: how do we handle it?”

Giving Mean Responsibility Our Lives Yoga Tasks Karma Handle Taking Responsibility Karma Yoga

Author:Frederick Lenz

“During the last 17 years... I have been working at the restoration of a once exhausted hillside. Its scars are now healed over, though still visible, and this year it has provided abundant pasture, more than in any year since we have owned it. But to make it as good as it is now has taken 17 years. If I had been a millionaire or if my family had been starving, it would still have taken 17 years. It can be better than it is now, but that will take longer. For it to live fully in its own responsibility, as it did before bad use ran it down, may take hundreds of years.”

Ifs Years May Has Beens Stills Use Lasts Responsibility Taken Land My Family Ran Visible Scar Exhausted Starving Healed Millionaire Restoration Pastures

Author:Wendell Berry

“There's a responsibility as a musician to do the music that you want to hear.”

Want Responsibility Musician

Author:El-P

“I consider myself responsible to the coming generations, which are left stranded in a blitzed world, unaware of the soul trembling in awe before the mystery of life.”

World Soul Left Responsibility Generations Mystery Responsible Awe Trembling Mystery Of Life Stranded

Book:Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980): memorial exhibition

Source: Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980): memorial exhibition

“I’m smiling on the inside. I feel I have a responsibility to the fashion community.”

Feels Community Responsibility Fashion

Author:Victoria Beckham

“We all have a responsibility to volunteer somewhere and I'm lucky that I get the education and get taken to places to see what's out there and see what's happening and to then be a part of it in hopefully an impactful way.”

Way Responsibility Taken Lucky Happenings Hopefully Volunteer

Author:Jennifer Garner

“Each contact is an opportunity for your own unique satsang with your Self, not in some strained or contrived way, but by keeping your mind inside your Heart, by trusting the inner guru and by recognizing each moment as perfect in itself and by simply being your Self. This is the true and natural responsibility or rather 'response-ability', the ability to respond effortlessly to the needs of the moment.”

Way Needs Mind Heart Self Moments Opportunity Natural Ability Perfect Responsibility Unique Response Contact Recognizing Guru Satsang

Author:Mooji

“American naturalist John Burroughs put it, “A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.”

“At the end of the day, you're responsible for yourself and your actions and that's all you can control. So rather than be frustrated with what you can't control, try to fix the things you can.”

Trying Ends Action Responsibility Player Responsible African American The End Of The Day Frustration Frustrated Fixing

Author:Kevin Garnett

“We have lots of studies about what's wrong with our education system. We need to accept responsibility, be bold, find solutions and move forward to make education a centerpiece of our economic development.”

Needs Moving Responsibility Accepting Study Economic Development Solutions Moving Forward Boldness Education System Economic Development Centerpieces

Author:Christine Gregoire

“Take what comes your way. Do the best with it. Be responsible as you can and something good will happen.”

Way Happens Responsibility Responsible Do The Best Good Will Being Responsible

Author:Frank Gehry

“The Chinese mom is not the helicopter mom. I would never do their homework for them. It's all about: Take responsibility, don't blame others. Be self-reliant. Never blame the teacher.”

Self Responsibility Teacher Mom Blame Chinese Taking Responsibility Homework Helicopters Self Reliant

Author:Amy Chua

“Journalism is the closest thing I have to a religion, because I believe deeply in the role and responsibility the journalists have to the people of a self-governing community.”

People Believe Self I Believe Community Responsibility Roles Journalism Journalist Closest Governing Roles And Responsibilities

Author:Bill Kovach

“Until you accept responsibility for your life, someone else runs your life.”

Running Responsibility Accepting Responsibility For Your Life

Author:Orrin Woodward

“It is a misuse of our power to take responsibility for solving problems that belong to others.”

Problem Responsibility Problem Solving Taking Responsibility Misuse

Book:Stewardship: Choosing Service Over Self Interest

Source: Stewardship: Choosing Service Over Self Interest

“Children, it should be repeated, are not pocket editions of adults, because childhood is a period of physical growth and development, a period of preparation for adult responsibility and public and private life. A program of children cannot be merely an adaptation of the program for adults, nor should it be curtailed during periods of depression or emergency expansion of other programs.”

Should Children Growth Responsibility Childhood Development Periods Adults Program Preparation Pockets Expansion Emergencies Adaptation Private Life

Author:Grace Abbott

“Together with the social responsibility of businesses, there is also the social responsibility of consumers. Every person ought to have the awareness that 'purchasing is always a moral-and not simply an economic-act.”

Persons Together Social Responsibility Moral Economic Awareness Ought Consumers Social Responsibility Purchasing

Author:Pope Francis

“I can think of no greater God-given responsibility we have than that of extending a helping hand to our fellow man.”

Thinking Men I Can Helping Hands Given Responsibility Greater Fellows Fellow Man Helping Hand Extending

Author:Conrad Hilton

“You cannot take any people, of any color, and exempt them from the requirements of civilization - including work, behavioral standards, personal responsibility, and all the other basic things that the clever intelligentsia disdain - without ruinous consequences to them and to society at large.”

People Responsibility Color Civilization Standards Consequence Including Clever Requirements Personal Responsibility Disdain Basic Things

Author:Thomas Sowell

“The power to arrest - to deprive a citizen of liberty - must be used fairly, responsibly, and without bias.”

Used Freedom Responsibility Liberty Power Rights Citizens Fairness Bias Deprivation Arresting

Author:Loretta Lynch

“For, according to the teachings of Islam, moral knowledge automatically forces moral responsibility upon man. A mere Platonic discernment between Right and Wrong, without the urge to promote Right and to destroy Wrong, is a gross immorality in itself, for morality lives and dies with the human endeavour to establish its victory upon earth.”

Men Humans Earth Dies Force Responsibility Moral Teaching Victory Morality Mere Islam Urges Gross Discernment Endeavour Immorality Platonic Moral Responsibility

Book:Islam at the Crossroads

Source: Islam at the Crossroads

“Strength must build up, not destroy. It should outdo itself, not others who are weaker. Used without responsibility, it causes nothing but harm and death. I can lift the heaviest weights, but I can not take the responsibility off my shoulders. Because the way we use our strength defines our fate. What traces will I leave on my path into the future? Do we really have to kill in order to live? My true strength lies in not seeing weakness as weakness. My strength needs no victims. My strength is my compassion.”

Way Needs Should I Can Use Used Lying Order Causes Responsibility Compassion Path Fate Seeing Weakness Weight Victim Harm Shoulders Lifts Can Not True Strength

Author:Patrik Baboumian

“I accept full responsibility for what I wrote and apologize to everyone who was offended.”

Responsibility Accepting Apologizing Offended

Author:Amy Pascal

“Sister Eliza R. Snow was given a charge from the prophet Brigham Young to help lift and teach the sisters of the Church. She “taught that individual women could receive inspiration to guide them in their personal lives, their families, and their Church responsibilities. She said: ‘Tell the sisters to go forth and discharge their duties, in humility and faithfulness and the Spirit of God will rest upon them and they will be blest in their labors. Let them seek for wisdom instead of power and they will have all the power they have wisdom to exercise.’”

“A right is a responsibility in reverse.”

Responsibility Reverse

Book:The Letters of E. B. White

Source: The Letters of E. B. White

“If photographers are responsible for creating or reflecting an image of women in society, then I must say, there is only one way for the future, and this is to define women as strong and independent. This should be the responsibility of photographers today: to free women, and finally everyone, from the terror of youth and perfection.”

“When you aren't satisfied with what has already been done, make something better. That is the greatest responsibility and the true freedom of creativity. The freedom is in that it doesn't need to complain.”

Needs Done Responsibility Creativity Complaining Satisfied Something Better True Freedom

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“Choice is more than picking 'x' over 'y.' It is a responsibility to separate the meaningful and the uplifting from the trivial and the disheartening. It is the only tool we have that enables us to go from who we are today to who we want to be tomorrow.”

Want Today Choices Responsibility Tomorrow Tools Meaningful Uplifting Who We Are Disheartening

Author:Sheena Iyengar

“I usually go with roles that I find entertaining. But every once in a while, there comes along a film that has an important social message. As actors, we have a certain responsibility toward our audience.”

Important Film Certain Actors Social Responsibility Roles Audience Messages Entertaining

Author:Boman Irani

“With all my heart I beseech and beg my two hundred million female compatriots to assume their responsibility as citizens. Arise! Arise! Chinese women, arise!”

Heart Two Responsibility Millions Citizens My Heart Hundred Female Assuming Arise Chinese

Author:Qiu Jin

“All suicides have the responsibility of fighting against the temptation of suicide. Every one of them knows very well in some corner of his soul that suicide, though a way out, is rather a mean and shabby one, and that it is nobler and finer to be conquered by life than to fall by one's own hand.”

Knows Way Wells Mean Soul Hands Fall Fighting Responsibility Suicide Corners Temptation Shabby Steppenwolf

Book:Steppenwolf

Source: Steppenwolf

“Third, and finally, the educated citizen has an obligation to uphold the law. This is the obligation of every citizen in a free and peaceful society--but the educated citizen has a special responsibility by the virtue of his greater understanding. For whether he has ever studied history or current events, ethics or civics, the rules of a profession or the tools of a trade, he knows that only a respect for the law makes it possible for free men to dwell together in peace and progress.”

“Obviously, the state's responsibility should be to legislate rules for a well-ordered society. It has no right or duty to creep into the bedrooms of the nation.”

Should Wells States Individual Nations Responsibility Crime Duty Bedroom Creeps Prohibition Individual Rights

Author:Pierre Trudeau

“Plato long ago pointed out the importance of being governed by men with sufficient sense of responsibility and comprehension of public duties to be very reluctant to undertake the work of governing.”

Men Long Responsibility Duty Importance Sufficient Long Ago Plato Governing Comprehension Reluctant Sense Of Responsibility

Book:The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

“The role of the writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say. Most of the writing today which is called fiction contains such a poverty of language, such triteness, that it is a shrunken, diminished world we enter, poorer and more formless than the poorest cripple deprived of ears and eyes and tongue. The writer's responsibility is to increase, develop our senses, expand our vision, heighten our awareness and enrich our articulateness.”

World Writing Eye Today Language Fiction Responsibility Vision Poverty Roles Awareness Ears Increase Tongue Senses Deprived Poorest Cripples

Author:Anais Nin

“In the early days of my carer as an actor, I shared what was then the prevailing attitude of Negro performers :;that the content and form of a play or a film scenario was of little importance to us. What mattered was was the opportunity, which came so seldom to our folks ... Later I came to understand that the Negro artist could not view the matter simply in terms of of his individual interests, and that he had a responsibility to his people who rightfully resented the traditional stereotyped portrayals of Negros on stage and screen.”

“Although I don't have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way.”

Knows Way Giving Feels Should Has Beens Responsibility Significant Fortunate Giving Back Prescriptions

Author:Bill Gates

“The Evangelistic Harvest is always urgent. The destiny of men and of nations is always being decided. Every generation is strategic. We are not responsible for the past generation, and we cannot bear the full responsibility for the next one; but we do have our generation. God will hold us responsible as to how well we fulfill our responsibilities to this age and take advantage of our opportunities.”

“Because democratic institutions do not renew themselves as effortlessly as flowering trees, they demand the ceaseless tinkering of people who possess both the courage and the honesty to admit their mistakes and accept responsibility for even the most inglorious acts.”

People Mistake Responsibility Accepting Democracy Tree Honesty Demand Institutions Democratic Flowering Tinkering Flowering Trees

Author:Bill Vaughan