Quotes About Responsibility

I don't get the fuss about President's Day. I spend my whole life not living up to promises and nobody's giving me a holiday.

A person will be called to account on Judgement Day for every permissible thing he might have enjoyed but did not.

If your dog is barking at the back door and your wife is yelling at the front door, who do you let in first? The dog, of course. He'll shut up once you let him in.

The man who rolls up his shirt sleeves is rarely in danger of losing his shirt.

I think most of us sense that it is a responsibility of the humanities to try to help better the conduct of human beings in their lives and manifold professional activities.

It's easy to be just a basketball player, get paid and come here to do that. But to be professional about it is different.

I try to be professional; I try to be on time. I don't take anything I have for granted. That's my definition of success.

The citizen's job is to be rude - to pierce the comfort of professional intercourse by boorish expressions of doubt.

If I had a choice, I'd rather not fight someone from Brazil, but as a professional, I couldn't say no.

Acting like an adult and being professional on set and getting my work done has just been a lifestyle for me. It's not something I have to try hard to do, necessarily.

Every professional athlete owes a debt of gratitude to the fans and management, and pays an installment every time he plays. He should never miss a payment.

With the responsibility of being a professional athlete, I believe that it is on us to go out there and help people.

I like to think that I'm a family man first and a professional athlete second.

As a professional athlete, the onus is on you to take responsibility.

The fact that a woman is attached to her professional life should not prevent her from being a mother.

Serving in Congress is the great honor of my professional life. I am deeply grateful to the people of the 4th Congressional District for placing their trust in me.

One of the reasons I admire David Lindsay-Abaire's work is that he, like the Greeks I've spent so much of my professional life contemplating, is not afraid of taking on the big stuff - huge, human, moral issues - what do we owe to those we love?

I believe in professionalism, less in politicians.

I would never think of crying about any loss of an office, because that's always a possibility, and if you're professional, then you deal with it professionally.

I dare you to show me one example where I haven't discharged my responsibility seriously, professionally and appropriately.

Authority doesn't have to be concentrated in me when I'm hiring outstanding professionals who know their jobs. I will be there if there's something that's not following what I want. But I also know that day to day, they're the ones that have to be accountable.

And I'm the kind of manager that doesn't believe that you micro-manage professionals. They should understand their responsibility and carry out those responsibility.

My organization, my colleagues and I, are paid to run hotels in good times and fair times. We're professionals. That's what we do. I don't give a damn about the short-term market implications.

I have had the privilege of serving as city comptroller, and I lead 750 professionals in the office, have appointed eight deputy comptrollers... no one has criticized my management of these 750 professionals.