Quotes about Responsibility

believe leadership is servanthood. It's my responsibility to make sure my people have what they need to succeed and get their work done.

What you make of life is up to you. You have all the tools and resources you need - what you do with them is up to you. The choice is yours. Stay mindful of your choices!

We cannot choose how many years we will live, but we can choose how much life those years will have. We cannot control the beauty of our face, but we can control the expression on it. We cannot control life's difficult moments, but we can choose to make life less difficult. We cannot control the negative atmosphere of the world, but we can control the atmosphere of our minds.

If you could kick the person responsible for most of your troubles, you wouldn't be able to sit down for weeks.

No one can understand that mysterious thing we call influence . . . yet . . . everyone of us continually exerts influence, either to heal, to bless, to leave marks of beauty; or to wound, to hurt, to poison, to stain other lives.

If you want your life to be a magnificent story, then realize that you are its author. Every day you have the chance to write a new page in that story. I want to encourage you to fill those pages with responsibility to others and yourself. If you do, in the end you will not be disappointed.

True leadership cannot be awarded, appointed, or assigned. It comes only from influence, and that cannot be mandated. It must be earned. The only thing a title can buy is a little time—either to increase your level of influence with others or to undermine it.

Followers tell you what you want to hear. Leaders tell you what you need to hear.

A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit.

You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink." That may be true. But it's also true that you can feed a horse salt and make him thirsty.

A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.

Clearly, if leaders have a strong set of ethical values and live them out, then people will respect them, not just their position. Immature leaders try to use their position to drive high performance.