Family Responsibility Quotes:

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

- Barbara Mikulski

topic: Responsibility, Government, Bankruptcy, Family Responsibility

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

- Sandra Day O'Connor

topic: Family, Nature, Women, Family Responsibility

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

topic: Song, Responsibility, Support, Inspirational Family, Core Values

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

- Abigail Van Buren

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Family, Abby, Happy Children

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

topic: Responsibility, Men, Tenacity, Family Responsibility

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

- Meg Ryan

topic: Responsibility, Careers, Conflict, Family Responsibility

The first duty of love is to listen.

- Paul Tillich

topic: Life, Marriage, Communication, Marriage Advice, Marriage And Love Inspirational

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

- Ali Shariati

topic: Family, Father, Responsibility, Personal Responsibility, Family Responsibility

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

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

topic: Real, Home, Responsibility, Family Responsibility

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

- C. Everett Koop

topic: Responsibility, Parenting, Generations, Inspirational Parenting, Inspirational Parents

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

- Betty Friedan

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Children, Responsibility, Years, Family Responsibility

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

topic: Responsibility, People, Might, Family Responsibility

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

topic: Jobs, Responsibility, Progress, Family Responsibility, Like Family

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

topic: Father, Teenager, Responsibility, Family Responsibility

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

source: Eva Cox (1996). “Leading Women”

topic: Leadership, Children, Responsibility, Family Responsibility

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

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

topic: Betrayal, Stupid, Responsibility, Destruction Of Nature, Family Responsibility

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

source: Source: www.businessinsider.com

topic: Responsibility, Loss, Way, Family Responsibility