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

I’m proud to be part of the Dr. Pepper Scholarship Giveaway. It’s a great program that gives me the chance to brighten the day for some lucky college students with free tuition.

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.

He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.

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.

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

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.

Each day brings opportunity for decisions for eternity.

Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.

I said that America’s role would be limited; that we would not put ground troops into Libya; that we would focus our unique capabilities on the front end of the operation, and that we would transfer responsibility to our allies and partners.

We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child.

The statesman’s duty is to bridge the gap between his nation’s experience and his vision.

When you’re in a leadership role, you can never please all of the people all of the time. There’s also a lot of responsibility that goes along with it that others may not realize.

My husband and I had to raise five of my younger brothers and sisters. They lived with us. We sent them to school.

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

If a great opportunity opens itself up, I would love to be involved… or star in a movie.

I get really motivated when I put on the India jersey. It is a responsibility, so I want to perform in the best way I can.

Adopt responsibility for your own well-being, try to put your family together, try to serve your community, try to seek for eternal truth… That’s the sort of thing that can ground you in your life, enough so that you can withstand the difficulty of life.

There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there’s only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.

After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.

Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us.

Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.

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

For revolutionary Cubans, to cooperate with other poor and exploited peoples has always been a political principle and a duty towards humanity.

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

Arafat’s departure has created an awesome opportunity.

If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.

Music is everybody’s possession. It’s only publishers who think that people own it.

Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Since the world has existed, there has been injustice. But it is one world, the more so as it becomes smaller, more accessible. There is just no question that there is more obligation that those who have should give to those who have nothing.

Without a moral framework, there is nothing left but immediate self-indulgence by some and the path of least resistance by others. Neither can sustain a free society.

The time has come for us to draw the line. The time has come for the responsible leaders of both political parties to take a stand against overgrown Government and for the American taxpayer.

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.

He who has great power should use it lightly.

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.

One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice-president, and that one word is ‚to be prepared‘.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

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.

Accountability breeds response-ability.

Always do everything you ask of those you command.

A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer’s hand.

Being prime minister is a lonely job… you cannot lead from the crowd.

The Pope loves everyone, rich and poor alike, but the Pope has the duty, in Christ’s name, to remind the rich to help the poor, to respect them, to promote them.

The spirit of America has nurtured responsibility and community unlike any other country.

The United States is definitely ahead in culture of innovation. If someone wants to accomplish great things, there is no better place than the U.S.

Whoever won’t fight when the President calls him, deserves to be kicked back in his hole and kept there.

The government, whether state or central, is elected. That means we have a responsibility to elect the right kind of leaders.

Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I’m the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.

I always say, decisions I make, I live with them. There’s always ways you can correct them or ways you can do them better. At the end of the day, I live with them.

The other day the President said, I know you’ve had some rough times, and I want to do something that will show the nation what faith that I have in you, in your maturity and sense of responsibility. He paused, then said, would you like a puppy?

I remember when my mother, Shyamala Harris, bought our first home. I was thirteen. She was so proud, and my sister and I were so excited. Millions of Americans know that feeling of walking through the front door of their own home for the first time – the feeling of reaching for opportunity and finding it.

I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.

A lot of people have a sense-of-entitlement mentality that somebody else ought to do these things for them. People are mad at the government for not getting jobs for them. I don’t understand why it’s the government’s responsibility.

One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child’s name and how old he or she is.

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

The right man is the one who seizes the moment.

I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.

I’m gonna go hard no matter what because I gotta feed my family, and I gotta feed myself.

If you get your ego in your way, you will only look to other people and circumstances to blame.