Great Responsibility Quotes

• Great power involves great responsibility

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Responsibility, Great Power, Power And Responsibility

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• You have given me a great responsibility: to stay close to you, to be worthy of you and to exemplify what you are.

  Jimmy Carter

  Responsibility, Government, Given

  United States. President (1977-1981 : Carter), Jimmy Carter (1977). “Jimmy Carter”

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• The great responsibility that we have today is to put the poor and the near poor back on front of the American agenda.

  Jesse Jackson

  Responsibility, Agendas, Today

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• Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Inspirational, Business, Responsibility

  John D. Rockefeller (2015). “John D. Rockefeller on Making Money: Advice and Words of Wisdom on Building and Sharing Wealth”, p.17, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.

  Les Brown

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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  Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility in the final analysis. The one quality that all successful people have is the ability to take on responsibility.

  Michael Korda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Success!". Book by Michael Korda, 1977.

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  You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Basketball, Peace

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• You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Oct 22, 2015

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• Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

  Ronald Reagan

  Funny, Baby, Military

  Ronald Reagan, Bill Adler (1981). “The Reagan wit”, Jameson Books

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• If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

  Booker T. Washington

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• We have the Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill of Responsibilities.

  Bill Maher

  Funny, Responsibility, Usa

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• If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.

  Abigail Van Buren

  Inspirational, Motivational, Family

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• Of those to whom much is given, much is asked.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Giving, Given

  On Vietnam and Not Seeking Reelection, delivered 31 March 1968

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• The harder I work the more I live.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Work, Good Luck, True Joy

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• A loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

  Ronald Knox

  Funny, Mom, Baby

  Definition of a baby (attributed)

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• To whom much is given, much is required.

  Swin Cash

  Inspirational, Giving, Given

  Twitter post from Dec 28, 2016

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• When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.

  Louis Nizer

  Kids, Responsibility, Men

  My Life in Court ch. 1 (1961)

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• I believe that with great wealth comes great responsibility, a responsibility to give back to society and a responsibility to see that those resources are put to work in the best possible way to help those most in need.

  Bill Gates

  Believe, Responsibility, Giving

  "Bill Gates: A New Era of Technical Leadership at Microsoft". news.microsoft.com. June 15, 2006.

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• Every kid around the world who plays soccer wants to be Pele. I have a great responsibility to show them not just how to be like a soccer player, but how to be like a man.

  Pele

  Motivational, Soccer, Sports

  "SI Flashback: Soccer's Greatest Genius". Sports Illustrated, June 01, 1999.

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• There comes a time in the life of a nation, as in the life of an individual, when it must face great responsibilities, whether it will or no. We have now reached that time. We cannot avoid facing the fact that we occupy a new place among the people of the world.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Responsibility, People, World

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• We, as film-makers, are privileged. We can make people cry or laugh. We can make them think and feel. It is a great privilege and a great responsibility.

  Haskell Wexler

  Responsibility, Thinking, People

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• The practical life of a vast number of people is not, as a matter of fact, worth while at all. It is like an impressive fur coat with no one inside it. One sees many of these coats occupying positions of great responsibility. Hans Andersen's story of the king with no clothes told one bitter and common truth about human nature; but the story of the clothes with no king describes a situation just as common and even more pitiable.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Kings, Responsibility, Clothes

  Evelyn Underhill (2003). “Evelyn Underhill: Essential Writings”

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• As designers we have a great responsibility.

  Dieter Rams

  Responsibility, Designer

  "Looks familiar? Apple classics and their 1960s ancestors" by Jonathan Glancey, www.theguardian.com. January 16, 2008.

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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.

  A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

  Humble, Humility, Responsibility

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