Quotes About Responsibility

You can't rise as a class. You have to rise individually. It's what many of the civil rights-era people don't understand.

I understand that I'm not perfect. I made mistakes and I had a hand in everything that's happened to me, good and bad.

We need to understand the difference between discipline and punishment. Punishment is what you do to someone; discipline is what you do for someone.

This air we breathe is precious, and the glaciers helped me understand that and stay focused on that.

Instead of drifting along like a leaf in a river, understand who you are and how you come across to people and what kind of an impact you have on the people around you and the community around you and the world, so that when you go out, you can feel you have made a positive difference.

I don't like it when a player says, 'I like freedom; I want to play for myself.' Because the player has to understand he is part of a team with 10 other players. If everyone wants to be a jazz musician, it will be chaos. They will not be a team, and nothing will be possible.

The financial crisis of 2008-09 was in large part the result of the so-called 'success' of people who did not understand their fiduciary duty. This kind of 'success' is extremely harmful to all of society.

I understand that kids look up to me, that some people might have gotten sober because of me.

To understand the power of the priesthood, we must know its limitations.

We're in very bad trouble if we don't understand the planet we're trying to save.

You know, one of the things I think you understand as president is you're held responsible for everything, but you don't always have control of everything, right?

I understand that I will be made to suffer for my actions.

You need to understand, if you take out a government, take out a regime, guess who becomes the government and regime and is responsible for the country? You are. So if you break it, you own it.

A lot of people have a sense-of-entitlement mentality that somebody else ought to do these things for them. People are mad at the government for not getting jobs for them. I don't understand why it's the government's responsibility.

You need to understand how you lead, and in my case it is through my actions and the way I bring others into the game and also how I am able to form relationships. I am somebody who can earn people's trust, and that's crucial to how I try to lead the team.

When residents elect a mayor, they expect the mayor to be able to solve their problems. They expect, when they go see the mayor, the mayor to be able to take care of things. But what they don't understand is that the mayor is not in charge.

I understand the importance of bondage between parent and child.

We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us.

I don't see myself as an activist. I understand that people, with me doing 'Satyameva Jayate,' for example, they will feel that I'm being an activist, but I'm not. Actually, I'm not, because I think an activist, as I see it, as a person who is very, very - takes up one issue and remains with that one issue for his entire life. I'm not doing that.

I do realise and understand very well on a profound level how lucky I am and what a privileged position it is and what it's done ultimately for me, my family and my kids. But at the same time, there are moments in a man's life when you just kind of want to feel somewhat normal.

When you reach my age, you understand that you are a player with skin in the game, no matter what game it is.

I understand my mother and father and sister are in Turkey, but if I stop talking, who is going to speak for the thousands and thousands of innocent people in jail?

You cannot just exercise your rights and get away without performing your responsibilities. Understand that it should not be about 'me' but rather 'us.'

I understand compliance and I understand the rules. Any meal, I wouldn't pay for everybody but I would at least pay my end.