Quotes About Responsibility

You can't be afraid to put out a fire if you're a fireman. You can't be afraid to be a police officer and carry a gun if you're afraid to get up and go out there. So you've got to put that fear to the side and go out in faith to overcome that.

Servanthood is revealed in simple, everyday events. But it's complex because servanthood is culturally defined—that is, serving must be sensitive to the cultural landscape while remaining true to the Scripture.

Apparently those who die and are not to return to the mortal sphere have the responsibility of watching over their bodies until they are interred. This was the instruction given to Peter Johnson, and may explain why living relatives sometimes sense the presence of departed loved ones before and during the funeral.

I understand that one person in 100,000 suffers from the disease and I am also aware that there are 100,000 members of my union, the Screen Actors Guild, who are working every day. I think, therefore, it is in some way considerate of me that I have taken on the disease for myself, thus protecting the remaining 99,999 members from this fate.

The captain was not the tip of a pyramid, as most people thought; in fact it was just the reverse: he was the spindle on which everything else balanced.

if you were to lead successfully, whether a kingdom or a ship's company, the only standards worth bothering with were those you set yourself; those of others were—well, those of the mob; those who were led, who had neither the ability nor the courage to sit alone and make the decisions.

Man, if I made one million dollars I would come in at six in the morning, sweep the stands, wash the uniforms, clean out the office, manage the team and play the games.

Alternatively, we could keep on as we are: ignoring or playing down the risks and putting responsibility for action elsewhere. But that would mean taking a monumental gamble with our children's future, and a species as intelligent as ours surely wouldn't do that. Would it?

To a greater force, and to a better nature, you, free, are subject, and that creates the mind in you, which the heavens have not in their charge. Therefore if the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.

A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence.

Managers are never 100 percent in control. You're at the mercy of the players. When you're a player, you're driving. I'm the navigator. I hardly ever think about driving anymore, unless there's two out in the bottom of the ninth.

It's gonna take someone getting seriously sick. Football didn't do much 'bout steroids until Lyle Alzado died. That's the way of the world. Until your house burns down, you don't worry about getting smoke detectors.

Promises make debt, and debt makes promises.

Dreams are powerful. It is possible to so attach our emotions to them that a dream can become a taskmaster we serve, rather than an assignment or goal we steward.

Your life is only yours once you're out of your parent's house.

No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old, and that I know.

Some years ago I became president of Columbia University and learned within 24 hours to be ready to speak at the drop of a hat, and I learned something more, the trustees were expected to be ready to speak at the passing of the hat.

This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign.

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

I shall go to Korea.

Politics is a profession a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.

Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.

The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice their choice!