Christopher A. Wray Quotes

I must be responsible and accountable for my actions.

A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

But there is a corollary to freedom and that's personal responsibility, and the real challenge is how you generate that personal responsibility without imposing it.

I take personal responsibility for everything I say.

Anything which tends to bring a greater sense of responsibility to individuals should be encouraged.

Do your duty in all things, like the old Puritan. You cannot do more; you should never wish to do less.

I can ruin my own career, but I will not ruin anyone elses' career with my mouth.

I gotta think that one that becomes a philosophy of work, which is "no excuses."

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

I live in a kind of controlled awareness. I wouldn't call it fear, but it's an awareness. I know I have a responsibility to behave in a certain way. I'm able to do that.

Maturity: Be able to stick with a job until it is finished. Be able to bear an injustice without having to get even. Be able to carry money without spending it. Do your duty without being supervised.

How can I govern others, who can't even govern myself?

A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility.

It's about working when nobody's watching.

I fought for the values of responsibility, and I'm not a man who does not accept his responsibilities.

In order to be responsible, you need some discipline in your life.

I have a rigid self-accountability. You have to work hard.

In my business, if you look good, no one is going to be checking up on whether you work out. So it's up to me.

I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.

There is nothing in the universe that I fear, but that I shall not know all my duty, or shall fail to do it.

Discipline is just doing the same thing the right way whether anyone's watching or not.

May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right.

Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections.

I realized the only thing I owed my audience was my own judgment and my own best effort.