Responsibilities Quotes
517 quotes by 454 authors
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It’s time to put away our fairytales, all of them, and assume our responsibilities, the adult responsibilities that begin with adult knowledge. Our planet needs…
— Lierre Keith
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What makes a man a man are his deeds, his responsibilities, and his reactions... These things are also what makes a man a monster.
— Shannon Delany
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When top executives get huge pay hikes at the same time as middle-level and hourly workers lose their jobs and retirement savings, or have to…
— Robert Reich
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God’s purpose is “to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man.â€2 That is fundamental to all we do. Sometimes we get so…
— Richard G. Scott
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All these young millionaires were anarchists, of course: when a man possesses everything it is the supreme luxury for him to deny society: for in…
— Romain Rolland
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I fought for the values of responsibility, and I'm not a man who does not accept his responsibilities.
— Nicolas Sarkozy
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The nuclear family must be destroyed, and people must find better ways of living together.... Whatever its ultimate meaning, the break-up of families now is…
— Linda Gordon
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Writing should be useful. If it can't instruct people a little bit more about the responsibilities of consciousness there's no point in doing it.
— Edward Albee
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The EU must take on new responsibilities. And these new responsibilities call for intensifying the integration process.
— Romano Prodi
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Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments. This is both historically and logically true. Of course the government can help to sustain ideals…
— Calvin Coolidge
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You were intended not only to work, but to rest, laugh, play, and have proper leisure and enjoyment. To develop an all-around personality you must…
— Grenville Kleiser
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The free man will ask neither what his country can do for him nor what he can do for his country. He will ask rather…
— Milton Friedman
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Power breeds responsibilities, in international affairs as in domestic -- or even private. To dodge or disclaim these responsibilities is one form of the abuse…
— Irving Kristol
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The challenge we now face is to build on the record of the past, to continue accepting new responsibilities and seeking new opportunities to serve.
— Lady Bird Johnson
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I like teaching and the contact with young minds keeps one on one's toes, but increasing responsibilities have forced me to shed much of it…
— Aaron Klug
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We who are living in the west today are fortunate. Freedom has been bequeathed to us. We have not had to carve it out of…
— Margaret Thatcher
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Freedom is not synonymous with an easy life. ... There are many difficult things about freedom: It does not give you safety, it creates moral…
— Margaret Thatcher
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There’s nothing better than excelling at a game you love. There’s nothing worse than thinking your accomplishments as a player outweigh your responsibilities as a…
— Doug Flutie
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Unless the schools provide our children with a vision of human possibility that enlightens and empowers them with knowledge and taste, they will simply play…
— Diane Ravitch
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Not even the lichen of the tundra is at peace. All is struggle, all is war for dominance. Those who lose, vanish. -And we’re no…
— Steven Erikson
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