Burden Of Responsibility Quotes

• The world is not changing if you don’t shoulder the burden of responsibility.

  Ai Weiwei

  Responsibility, World, Burden

  Ai Weiwei @aiww, twitter.com. April 21, 2014.

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• Leadership involves the heavy burden of responsibility, and the fear of getting it wrong can paralyze a leader.

  John C. Maxwell

  Responsibility, Leader, Burden

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• Modern man is weighed down more by the burden of responsibility than by the burden of sin. We think him more a savior who shoulders our responsibilities than him who shoulders our sins. If instead of making decisions we have but to obey and do our duty, we feel it as a sort of salvation.

  Eric Hoffer

  Responsibility, Men, Thinking

  "The Passionate State Of Mind, and Other Aphorisms". Book by Eric Hoffer. Section 84, 1955.

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• Peace comes not because your prayer has been answered exactly as you prayed it, but because you shifted your focus and the burden of responsibility on to Him.

  Christopher Parkening

  Prayer, Responsibility, Focus

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• I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility and to discharge my duties as King as I would wish to do without the help and support of the woman I love.

  King Edward VIII

  Love, Kings, Women

  Radio broadcast following his abdication, 11 December 1936, in 'The Times' 12 December 1936

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• The footnote would seem to be the smallest detail in a work of history. Yet it carries a large burden of responsibility, testifying to the validity of the work, the integrity (and the humility) of the historian, and to the dignity of the discipline.

  Gertrude Himmelfarb

  Integrity, Humility, Responsibility

  Gertrude Himmelfarb (1995). “On Looking Into the Abyss: Untimely Thoughts on Culture and Society”, Vintage

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• I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility.

  King Edward VIII

  Responsibility, Impossible, Royalty

  Radio broadcast following his abdication, 11 December 1936, in 'The Times' 12 December 1936

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