Quotes about Responsibility

The function of freedom is to free someone else.

Sadly, we do a much better job of making people feel guilty than we do of delivering them from the guilt we create. We need to confess this and change our ways.

I have three things I'd like to say today. First, while you were sleeping last night, 30,000 kids died of starvation or diseases related to malnutrition. Second, most of you don't give a shit. What's worse is that you're more upset with the fact that I said shit than the fact that 30,000 kids died last night.

The single greatest reason why we are losing a generation is because the home is no longer the place of the transference of the faith. We live in a day of 'outsourcing'…Today, we have a generation of people that outsource their kids.

Many in our society want the benefits of freedom without its responsibilities and boundaries. They want "God bless America," but not one nation under God.

Our wives are like mirrors, reflecting back to us what kinds of husbands we are.

We cannot continue to provide for their needs, then fault them for lacking ambition to improve their situation." They had borrowed a small one-horse

every organization must contribute in some way to a better world for some group of people, because if it doesn't, it will, and should, go out of business.

it is far more natural, and common, for leaders to avoid holding people accountable.

All too often in life, we see people do what we want them to do and we say nothing, assuming that the behavior has become natural for them, an easy standard.

I believe it's long past time that we, as individuals and as a society, reestablished the standard that leadership can never be about the leader more than the led.

Failure to hold one another accountable creates an environment where the fifth dysfunction can thrive. Inattention to results occurs when team members put their individual needs (such as ego, career development, or recognition) or even the needs of their divisions above the collective goals of the team.