Reggie Lewis Quotes

In the military, I learned that 'leadership' means raising your hand and volunteering for the tough, important assignments.

[President] McKinley gave [Lt. Andrew Sommers] Rowan a letter to be delivered to [General Calixto] Garcia: Rowan took the letter and did not ask, "Where is he at?" By the eternal, there is a man whose form should be cast in deathless bronze and the statue placed in every college in the land. It is not book learning that young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebrae which will cause them to be loyal to a trust to act promptly, concentrate their energies, do the thing—"carry a message to Garcia.

I learned that you have a responsibility to do things when you can.

It is the solemn obligation of a leader always to be a leader. Even when - perhaps especially when - you don't feel like being a leader.

Ask not what the role can do for you; ask what you can do for the role.

May the spirit of devotion to duty which inspires us always dominate this Committee's conferences!

The price of greatness is responsibility.

I have a strong sense of responsibility. I like to be directed, it's true. If I didn't like that, I'd do something else.

I will not refuse to do something that I can do.

Our people expect the best of us. They send us to take care of the people's business, and those of us who take hold of that responsibility understand that's what it's really about.

I don't see myself being special; I just see myself having more responsibilities than the next man. People look to me to do things for them, to have answers.

I hold an office in trust, not a title. I don't want to say it's a kamikaze approach to life, but it's ingrained.

Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.

Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

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

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Tom Clarke is dead. He has not our responsibilities. Nobody will ever know what he would do for the situation did not arise for him. But is has risen for us and we must face it with our intelligence and conscious of our responsibility.

Whoever can, should.

I promise you that during my life, I was more concerned about not letting people down, about doing my part, than I was ever into what it did for me.

When the party gives me a responsibility, I must do it with complete dedication. God has given me the ability, which I utilise to its optimum.

My philosophy is that you do what you have to do.

In carrying out every aspect of our work, CIA officers are guided by a professional ethos that is the sum of our abiding principles, core values, and highest aspirations. These include service, integrity, excellence, courage, teamwork, and stewardship. Sacrifice, too, is an inescapable part of our mission.

I promise I will get up every day, determined to make a difference... I am ready to serve.

There comes a time in everybody's life when it's no longer enough to point and say he or she should do it, but you have to answer yourself... That's why I put myself at the party's service.

Whenever my number is called, I'll be ready always.