Quotes about Responsibility

Where Are You Holding Up Your Team? If you are not asking the members of your team how you can serve them, you may be holding them up. To find out, go to each team member individually and ask, "What could I do for you that would make your job easier, make you more successful, and make the team better?" Listen without interrupting to what people have to say, and then try to figure out ways to do what you can to serve them.

you can care about people without leading them, but you cannot lead people well without caring about them.

Remind yourself that leadership is a privilege and responsibility more than anything else.

Where trust is absent, leadership falters.

The way you take control of the direction of your life is to take responsibility for yourself and your everyday actions.

Even the most noble endeavors fail with immoral leadership.

Every time we make an excuse, we fail to learn from our mistakes.

You can lead your horse to water, but you can't manage him to drink.

A person without discipline is in a prison without bars.

I love the story about the shortest letter to the editor written to England's newspaper the Daily Mail. When the editor invited readers to send in their answers to the question, "What's wrong with the world?" writer G. K. Chesterton is reputed to have sent the following: Dear Sir, I am. Yours sincerely, G. K. Chesterton.

The Higher the Level of Leadership, the Greater the Sacrifice: The higher you go, the more it's going to cost you. And it doesn't matter what kind of leadership career you pick. You will have to make sacrifices. You will have to give up to go up.

People don't want to be managed. They want to be led. Whoever heard of a world manager? World leader, yes. Education leader, yes. Political leader. Religious leader. Scout leader. Community leader. Labor leader. Business leader. Yes. They lead.