Quotes About Responsibility

You have to take a certain pride in your work.

I'm continuing to prepare very well because I have my responsibility and my (pride) as a man and an athlete.

Our officials want nothing more than to be at the top of their professional game and make the correct call. That's what they do; that's their living, that's their pride, that's their joy. They don't achieve that because they happen to be human.

I used to pride myself on the fact that I kept a house running and never burdened anybody.

I have such pride in my job.

Anyplace we go in the world, when someone asks us what we do, we feel an immense pride in saying, 'FBI.'

I've got a lot of people I'm carrying on my back, but it's a light load because I take a lot of pride in who I am and where I came from.

I'm a true professional. I don't play no acting games, and I take pride in my work and being a professional.

I took the same pride in my dishwashing job as a child as I take in running my company today.

I was everything, patriarch, priest, father and judge.

I have never had demands on me as acute as when I was a parish priest.

And I definitely wanted to be a writer, but I felt a duty now, having used up those educational resources, I felt a duty to the church and my parents to become a priest.

If we look for human frailty in humans, we will always find it. When we focus on finding the frailties of those who hold priesthood keys, we run risks for ourselves. When we speak or write to others of such frailties, we put them at risk.

He chose to honor us with His priesthood. So we honor Him by honoring His priesthood - both its power and those who bear it.

Missionary work essentially is a priesthood responsibility, and all of us who hold the priesthood are the Lord's authorized servants on the earth and are missionaries at all times and in all places - and we always will be.

I fear that there are too many priesthood bearers who have done little or nothing to develop their ability to access the powers of Heaven.

People who commit crimes should be responsible for those crimes. It doesn't matter whether they're priests or ministers or atheists.

I never went to church. The priests couldn't scare me with all that crap about hell, but somehow I knew, inside of me somehow, I knew that I'd pay for it.

We will that all men know we blame not all the lords, nor all those that are about the king's person, nor all gentlemen nor yeomen, nor all men of law, nor all bishops, nor all priests, but all such as may be found guilty by just and true inquiry and by the law.

I think generally, Pope Benedict did a good job cleaning up the way the church handled abusive priests but didn't go far enough in how he handled bishops who enabled them.

It's not like I don't have my own wants and dreams anymore - it's just that the kids come first. It's primal.

If Barack Obama now, or some black person in the future, should become president, neither Jesse Jackson nor Al Sharpton would be out of a job. A black president can't end black misery; a black president can't be a civil rights leader or primarily a crusader for racial justice.

It's important that we elevate and primarily focus on the rights of American citizens, but it's also important that we don't forget, 95 percent of the world's population lives beyond our own borders.

Things like dressing, postures and gestures are under the artiste's control. If I'm performing, my safety is primarily my responsibilityso I shouldn't end up doing anything that would infuriate the audience.