Quotes About Responsibility

no trainer or coach or expert can make you good or great or unstoppable if you're not going to do the work,

Just show up, work hard, and listen. That's your part of the deal. Do the work.

When you're an A+ person, you want A+ people around you, and everyone has to be accountable for doing A+ work.

There are usually three reasons that promises aren't kept: They are forgotten, abandoned, or undervalued.

We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot."77

We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.

Napoleon Hill observed many successful men during his research for Think and Grow Rich. All of them had a strong self-image that was protected by a track record of keeping their commitments, even when doing so required herculean efforts.

As I have traveled throughout my Congressional district, the one thing I heard loud and clear was simply please stop spending money you do not have, rein in spending, live within a budget.

Children love to polish brass and silver, then move on to polishing their own shoes.

during tough times, "Leaders stretch to the challenge, while followers shrink from the challenge.

A leader who is successful at work but a failure at home is not a successful leader.

No one is going to put rumble strips in your life for you. That is up to you. Your rumble strips may not be the same as mine, and mine may not be the same as yours. But everyone needs rumble strips. It all begins with self-leadership; before we talk about leading a church or a business, we must talk about being a leader worth following.

the success of leaders will rise or fall based on the decisions they make about the people around them.

Maybe Marcus was wrong. Maybe a single person can save the world. I'll bet I could. I could save the whole world - for a night.

You just go around acting like you're saving other people so you don't have to deal with your own problems.

I'm not a dream crusher. The real world already does enough of that without me getting into the business

Uh, sure, if it doesn't take too long. I'm supposed to be at a big police banquet in about thirty seconds. They'll probably send a car by for me if I'm late.

Hey, you're here," I say, catching my breath. "Sorry I'm late." "That's all right," she says, and I have to wonder how many times she said that to the people who screwed her over somehow. "No," I say. "It's not all right. But I couldn't help it.

It was a weird feeling knowing that people were looking to me for help – and frustrating too. You save the damn city a couple times, and suddenly everyone expects miracles from you.

Lazlo doesn't believe in seatbelts. He says they show a serious lack of faith in a driver.

the president's oath to take care that the laws are faithfully executed, and presidents have strained against the strictures of that oath since World War I.

Yeah, it's a cover-up," Nixon said. "The cover-up is worse than whatever comes out. It really is—unless somebody is going to jail.

She also had run Stellar Wind since its inception. Mueller made her his right hand.

Kissinger would select suspects for surveillance. If Hoover concurred, the taps would go in. The responsibility for finding the leakers and stopping the leaks would rest entirely on the FBI. On