Quotes About Responsibility

Please, people, don't drink and vote. We'll all pay for that.

At every meeting, I mention that if I am doing something personally that gets in the way of progress for the company - or something needs to change - please come and tell me.

No President can achieve everything or please everyone.

For 25 years, I did take my responsibilities as a pleaser of others sufficiently seriously.

Wouldn't it be funny if I were a total nightmare? If I just shot 21-hour days and went over budget? But, you know, it's something I'm really careful about, because I am a mom, and also, I'm an actor. I'm a pleaser: I don't want to take up too much of people's time.

If what I say or what I do affects others who look up to me as a role model, that pleases me so much.

No man has a right to do what he pleases, except when he pleases to do right.

I abhor crime novels in which the main character can behave however he or she pleases, or do things that normal people do not do, without those actions having social consequences.

A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.

It is a pleasure when I get to captain PSG.

Business was his aversion; Pleasure was his business.

Once you walk off the set, if you're an actor, the rest isn't your responsibility, which I like a lot. I'm not responsible for the final product, which is why it's always a pleasure when you see it's in the hands of the people afterwards putting it together.

Having a son is not all pleasure.

Business is always interfering with pleasure - but it makes other pleasures possible.

Work, especially if you're lucky in what you do, is one of the great pleasures of life, but - like all pleasures - it can become selfish.

Let's do more than say the 'Pledge of Allegiance.' Let us live it!

Not observation of a duty but liberty itself is the pledge that assures fidelity.

If a man breaks a pledge, the public ought to know it.

I will be the president of the nation who keeps pledges.

A lot of people get elected to Congress, and sometimes a part of their pledge is a term-limit pledge. There's no accountability.

I pledge to dedicate everything I have to working for Japan and for the people.

I am at home with my kids from 6 to 8. If I have a work dinner, I'll schedule to have dinner after 8. But we're working at night. You'll get plenty of emails from me post-8 P.M. when my kids go to bed.

I always said if it gets to a point where I really want a child, I would adopt; kids are amazing, so I'm getting the selfish stuff out of my system so when I have them I can say, 'Go, run. I have plenty of money, go play.'

You just make sure you don't screw it up. It's going to work as long as you don't mess it up. Hopefully you have plenty of those moments in a big comedy.