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

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Scientists are not delinquents. Our work has changed the conditions in which men live, but the use made of these changes is the problem of governments, not of scientists.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlightenment and comfort at top speed.

Government’s first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion.

I lived a sloppy life. So I took very small increments in my life. I started making my bed. I started cleaning my room. There were dishes in the sink. It started off with doing small house chores. I saw that the yard needed to be mowed. So instead of being told it needed to be mowed, I would mow it.

The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.

Every wall is a door.

Democracy is not static. It is a living force. Every new idea, every new invention offers opportunity for both good and evil.

Train up a child in the way that he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.

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

Possession isn’t nine-tenths of the law. It’s nine-tenths of the problem.

Black or white good parts are hard to come by. A good actor with a good opportunity has a shot; without the opportunity it doesn’t matter how good you are.

You can choose a future where more Americans have the chance to gain the skills they need to compete, no matter how old they are or how much money they have. Education was the gateway to opportunity for me. It was the gateway for Michelle. And now more than ever, it is the gateway to a middle-class life.

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

Power has only one duty – to secure the social welfare of the People.

Cage Warriors is a brilliant organisation. They’re doing great things for European MMA, and they’re giving the platform for guys like me who came through. They’re vital. I’m forever grateful for the opportunities I got.

See any detour as an opportunity to experience new things.

Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.

One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes… and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.

Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.

I think if someone gets kicked in the face it is their fault – they watched the foot come towards their face.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.

By taking responsibility for how you choose to respond to anything or anyone, you’re aligning yourself with the beautiful dance of life.

I think you have a moral responsibility when you’ve been given far more than you need, to do wise things with it and give intelligently.

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors.

America is another name for opportunity.

When it comes to the qualifications that we should demand of our president, to start with, we need someone who will take the job seriously.

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

The government’s job is good governance for everybody. My government will make policies; if you fit into it, come on board, or stay where you are. My job is not to spoon-feed anyone.

Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.

What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Artists have a responsibility to speak and to act when governments fail, and if we don’t do that, we really deserve the world we get.

Most people have the opportunity of a lifetime flash right in front of them, and they fail to see it. A year later, they find out about it, after everyone else got rich.

I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.

I don’t see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves.

The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

I want to destroy ownership in order that possession and enjoyment may be raised to the highest point in every section of the community.

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you’re prepared for it.

In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility – I welcome it.

God can cause opportunity to find you. He has unexpected blessings where you suddenly meet the right person, or suddenly your health improves, or suddenly you’re able to pay off your house. That’s God shifting things in your favor.

You need to understand, if you take out a government, take out a regime, guess who becomes the government and regime and is responsible for the country? You are. So if you break it, you own it.

I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond.

People make a big fuss over you when you’re President. But I’m very serious about doing everything I can to make sure that it doesn’t go to my head.

As a mom, I know it is my responsibility, and no one else’s, to raise my kids. But we have to ask ourselves, what does it mean when so many parents are finding their best efforts undermined by an avalanche of advertisements aimed at our kids.

Love can do much, but duty more.

You know, one of the things I think you understand as president is you’re held responsible for everything, but you don’t always have control of everything, right?

Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.