Family Responsibility Quotes

• Family responsibility, yes, and always. Family bankruptcy due to the cruel rules of government, no.

  Barbara Mikulski

  Responsibility, Government, Bankruptcy

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• Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make you a more understanding person.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Family, Nature, Women

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• I describe family values as responsibility towards others, increase of tolerance, compromise, support, flexibility. And essentially the things I call the silent song of life-the continuous process of mutual accommodation without which life is impossible.

  Salvador Minuchin

  Love, Life, Family

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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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• I never had a lot of drive, but because I had family responsibilities, I had a lot of tenacity - the tenacity of a drowning man.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Responsibility, Men, Tenacity

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• My family responsibilities don't conflict with my career. Not at all.

  Meg Ryan

  Responsibility, Careers, Conflict

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• The first duty of love is to listen.

  Paul Tillich

  Love, Life, Marriage

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• My father chose my name , and my last name was chosen by my ancestors . That’s enough, I myself choose my way

  Ali Shariati

  Family, Father, Responsibility

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• Today, despite all of the gains we have made, neither men nor women have real choice. Until women have supportive employers and colleagues as well as partners who share family responsibilities, they don't have real choice. And until men are fully respected for contributing inside the home, they don't have real choice either.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Real, Home, Responsibility

  Sheryl Sandberg (2014). “Lean In for Graduates”, p.169, Knopf

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• Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation

  C. Everett Koop

  Love, Teacher, Children

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• Most of the people in the workforce today will spend some years when they also have children and family responsibilities.

  Betty Friedan

  Children, Responsibility, Years

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The person who sits at his or her desk the longest is not necessarily the best. In fact, he or she might also be the least efficient. It's also often the case that people with family responsibilities are particularly productive at work.

  Kristina Schroder

  Responsibility, People, Might

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• I occasionally get glimpses, but I have to reprioritize, because that's how it naturally progresses - things like family, responsibilities, and your job all take precedent.

  Drew Magary

  Jobs, Responsibility, Progress

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• At 15 [my father] revolted against his father like any teenager, and said, "I'm out of here! What are you doing to me?" He thought he wouldn't be involved in that kind of stuff for the rest of his life. He just wanted to make money. He was one of those people who took over the family responsibility. His own father was pretty irresponsible with money and borrowed from people all the time.

  Paul Laffoley

  Father, Teenager, Responsibility

  Source: www.paranoiamagazine.com

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• Leading women, if they are to offer variations from the present companies of leading men, need to be drawn from a wide spectrum of household and family arrangements. If women with children and family responsibilities are almost always seriously limited by these, then those currently in power will not have the personal experience necessary to represent these overlooked areas.

  Eva Cox

  Leadership, Children, Responsibility

  Eva Cox (1996). “Leading Women”

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• Our destruction of nature is not just bad stewardship, or stupid economics, or a betrayal of family responsibility; it is the most horrid blasphemy. It is flinging God's gifts into His face, as if they were of no worth beyond that assigned to them by our destruction of them.

  Wendell Berry

  Betrayal, Stupid, Responsibility

  Wendell Berry (2003). “The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry”, p.308, Counterpoint

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• There's a tremendous loss of talent to businesses who cannot make room for their employees to attend to family responsibilities. It really amounts to corporate waste: They hire really talented women and then lose them because they can't find ways to keep them productive and content the minute they can't "lean in."

  Anne-Marie Slaughter

  Responsibility, Loss, Way

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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