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Quotes About Responsibility

You didn't have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything in your factory and hire someone to protect against this because of the work the rest of us did.
~ Elizabeth Warren
Don't you hate when people are late to work. And they always have the worst excuses. "Oh, I'm sorry I'm late, traffic." "Traffic, huh? How do you think I got here; helicoptered in!?"
~ Ellen DeGeneres
She rose to his requirement, dropped The playthings of her life To take the honorable work Of woman and of wife.
~ Emily Dickinson
Life isn't about a hand-out. That's not what the NFL is about and that won't get you in the NFL or take care of you once you're out of the NFL. You have to work.
~ Eric Dickerson
The time to work is shorter all the time and if you waste it you ... have committed a sin for which there is no forgiveness.
~ Ernest Hemingway
I don't get handed money - and I never will. I have to work!
~ Eve Hewson
It takes a lot of energy to work, in general, especially if you're the lead in something.
~ Faith Ford
[On parenthood:] You can't change your mind--you know, and say, this isn't working out, let's sell.
~ Fran Lebowitz
If you don't appear at all one day they think you're lazy or dead.
~ Frank O'Hara
Do your job and do it right, life's a ball, TV tonight.
~ Frank Zappa
The office of the prince and that of the writer are defined and assigned as follows: the nobleman gives rank to the written work,the writer provides food for the prince.
~ Franz Grillparzer
It's up to you to avail yourself to knowledge. Knowledge doesn't need you. The idea of a compassionate God was formulated, obviously, by someone who didn't want to do any work.
~ Frederick Lenz
It is possible to renounce everything and attain enlightenment. But most people don't want to renounce; they wish to run away from responsibility and hard work.
~ Frederick Lenz
Whenever I work with anyone, it is an opportunity for them to become more professional and do something for someone else.
~ Frederick Lenz
Self-control is completely necessary for increasing and raising your attention level. One of the places you practice that is at work.
~ Frederick Lenz
Work travel for me, which is - I hate to say it - more enjoyable now that I have kids.
~ Gabrielle Reece
As long as we decline to allow sick uninsured people to just lie down and die on the side of the road, everybody has to have insurance for the health care system to work sanely.
~ Gail Collins
Film-making is a business and at the bottom line people who don't make fiscally responsible decisions end up going into another line of work.
~ Gale Anne Hurd
The smartest people in the world are not in charge, they work for the action takers.
~ Garrison Wynn
I don't believe in sharing my money. If I go out and work my nuts off and make some money, I don't feel that I should have to share it with my community.
~ Gary Numan
Shutting down the government is not how you make government work.
~ George Clooney
Our sense of duty must often wait for some work which shall take the place of dilettanteism [sic] and make us feel that the quality of our action is not a matter of indifference.
~ George Eliot
It was soon noticed that when ever there was work to be done the cat could never be found.
~ George Orwell
Time is always wanting to me, and I cannot meet with a single day when I am nut hurried along, driven to by wits'-end by urgent work, business to attent do or some service to render.
~ George Sand