Quotes About Responsibility

When you win, everything is everything. But when you lose, it's all about Allen Iverson and Larry Brown. When we win, I know that I get the praise and Larry Brown gets the praise, but when we lose, it's on me and Larry Brown. That's something that I have to learn to accept and deal with.

Being manager means living in the middle of the media attention, through praise and critics. This is something I live with. It's intense and very demanding.

In football you can take the praise when it comes, but you've got to be ready to take the criticism as well.

We do plenty of high praise, but if a play deserves to be criticized or I don't believe he belongs in the game, the fans deserve to hear it.

You are damned and praised, or encouraged or discouraged by those who listen to you, and those who come to applaud you. And to me, those people are very important.

Goalkeepers don't get second chances, but also, we can win games and be praised, so that's the way it is.

No matter how much you pray or fast, our country cannot grow without some of us deciding to do the hard work that makes nations work.

Could I be a good mom? That's a dream, I pray that I'll be the best mom ever. But I don't know. It's so important to me.

'Do you pray for the senators, Dr. Hale?' No, I look at the senators and I pray for the country.

A Christian who does not pray for those who govern is not a good Christian.

My most earnest prayer is that every man and every woman will get it into his or her heart that they are in very deed the architects of their lives.

I tell people that If one woman can get prayer taken out of the school, it may very well be that God Is asking another woman to get prayer back into the schools. I am confident that's what God wants us to do.

It is our nation which is blind, and needs our prayers.

I remember one of my first prayers when I became a Christian was simply, 'God, provide a job for me. I don't care how hard I have to work, just provide a job and opportunity so that I can take care of my family.' And you know, that was really all I asked from Him.

My father was a minister, and it was more my mother that had the responsibility of making sure the family put out an outward of appearance of living what he was preaching. She was the PR.

I love the power of music and artistry and feel a responsibility having a platform to preach good things.

If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.

Any politician is to a certain degree a mentor. They preach something.

I don't want to make that sound like I'm preaching from a mountain top when I say you have to give your family everything, because I know it's hard for people. I'm lucky to be in a position where you can establish those ground rules and make it that way.

When preaching is done right, it can change lives. When it's done badly, my failure goes beyond the merely human.

Any athlete can preach to this, that when things aren't going well, you tend to bring it home, and the people that take the brunt of it is the family.

I don't appreciate a preacher who commits adultery and then goes out and blames me.

Hollywood films have become a cesspool of formula and it's up to us to try to change it... I feel like a preacher! But it's really true. I feel personally responsible for the future of American cinema. Me personally.

Most churches are run by preachers who went to seminaries, who decided to be preachers when they were 18, 19, 20 years old. These preachers never met a payroll. They don't know how the world works.