To some generations much is given. Of other generations, much is expected.
Interpretation
Different generations face distinct challenges and expectations.
This quote by Franklin D. Roosevelt highlights the disparities between generations in terms of opportunities and responsibilities. It suggests that while some generations may benefit from certain advantages, others are burdened with higher expectations to perform and contribute, reflecting the cycles of privilege and responsibility that define human society.
In practice
In a speech addressing young leaders, one might say, 'As Franklin D. Roosevelt once noted, to some generations much is given, and it is our duty to rise to the expectations placed upon us.'
There has been one persistent theme through all Axis propaganda. This theme has been that Americans are admittedly rich, that Americans have considerable industrial power - but that Americans are soft and decadent, that they cannot and will not unite and work and fight. ... Let them tell that to the Marines!
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
A war of ideas can no more be won without books than a naval war can be won without ships. Books, like ships, have the toughest armor, the longest cruising range, and mount the most powerful guns.
Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
A world turned into a stereotype, a society converted into a regiment, a life translated into a routine, make it difficult for either art or artists to survive. Crush individuality in society and you crush art as well. Nourish the conditions of a free life and you nourish the arts, too.
Having more women in company boards, in senior management, supervisory positions and workers in the formal sector is not only the right thing to do, but the smart thing to do. It's good for the bottom line.
No easy problems ever come to the President of the United States. If they are easy to solve, someone else has solved them.
...Ponnammal set the example for the others by quietly doing what they did not care to do. Her spirit created a new climate in the place, and the time came when there was not one nurse who would refuse to do whatever needed to be done.
The citizens of America expect more. They deserve and they want more than a recital of problems.
Leadership is taking responsibility while others are making excuses.
You ask how I feel to be the first female president in southern Africa? It's heavy for me. Heavy in the sense that I feel that I'm carrying this heavy load on behalf of all women.
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