Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man.
For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
You've got to learn to work with others. One of my main values is, you learn this system of mutual benefit. That is, if you shirk and you try to make the other guy do more, he's going to do that to you.
I have had my dance with Folly, nor do I shirk the blame; I have sipped the so-called Wine of Life and paid the price of shame; But I know that I shall find surcease, the rest my spirit craves, Where the rainbows play in the flying spray, 'Mid the keen salt kiss of the waves.
To be an artist, one must. . . never shirk from the truth as he understands it, never withdraw from life
My desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility.
There is a great deal too much in the world, of the "heavenly-mindedness" which expends itself in the contemplation of the joys of paradise, which performs no duty which it can shirk, and whose constant prayer is to be lifted in some overwhelming flood of Divine grace, and be carried, amidst the admiration of men and the jubilance of angels, to the very throne of God.
Poet and sculptor, do the work, Nor let the modish painter shirk
Leadership happens at every level of the organization and no one can shirk from this responsibility.
We have duties to others, and duties to ourselves, and we cannot shirk either.
