Quotes About Responsibility

We are not the same India that the world saw in the 1970s and '80s. Hence, we have a responsibility to live up to the pedestal on which we have been put.

I want to be less of a role model and more of a mentor. I don't ever want kids to put me on a pedestal and feel like they can't talk or reach out to me. I want to be there for them.

When you are a successful footballer, you get put on a pedestal. You are the person your friends and family look up to, and they do not know how to approach you when things are going wrong, even when you just need someone to reach out to you and ask you if you are all right.

Coming out of the Olympic Games, I was the golden boy and I got put up on a pedestal. I got stuff handed to me.

People want to dethrone you from the pedestal that you're on when you have a platform, when you have a voice.

After doing One Fine Day and playing a pediatrician on ER, I'll never have kids. I'm going to have a vasectomy.

We don't need to completely dumb things down. We need to speak about things in an accessible way. But we have a responsibility to peel the curtains back in governing and government and how things work.

If I had been censured every time I have run my ship, or fleets under my command, into great danger, I should have long ago been out of the Service and never in the House of Peers.

It has never been the case that a peerage can be extinguished, even for the lifetime of a peer, by a motion of the Lords. This does not mean that there are not effective ways of penalising errant peers.

The captain thing was really an honor, and it was really flattering for me. It was really something that I didn't expect, and I would say that was the highlight of my career so far, being elected captain by my peers.

You have to remember I've been working with adults since I was 12 - they were my peers, and it has an effect, for sure.

It means a lot that my peers think so much of me that they would pick me to be their team leader.

We are trying to learn from the consequences of one's peers' actions.

If you know anything about what a lot of the senior leaders at Amazon do in their free time, they spend a lot of time on civil liberties. It's something that's very important to me and I think a lot of my peers.

I don't want to see a kid get hurt trying to imitate me or trying to do something he or she has seen one of my peers do.

A president with a pen in their hand is a very powerful person.

We've never been very good at servicing fans. I'm here to concentrate on music, not to be a pen pal to people who write to me.

As bad as the Obama administration is at trying to legislate without legislators, all too often, Congress is responsible for handing them the 'pen and phone.'

When you're given a certain amount of power - like, you're a writer and an employed writer, and you put pen to paper, and people are going to read what you write - that's power.

It's true that I score a lot of penalties. If referees give us penalties and the coach names me as the penalty-taker, I have to take them. That doesn't mean that I'm going to score them.

Penalties are part of the game, you know. You need to score. You have the chance but you need to score.

Obviously if somebody scores 17 goals, you're not going to argue with him if he wants to take penalties.

Any one of Messi, Neymar, Xavi, or Suarez can take penalties; it doesn't matter.

It's always good to have more than one player who can take free-kicks or penalties.