Inspiring Responsibility Quotes to Help You Take Charge of Your Life - page 116

Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
 Michelangelo
Great leadership isn’t shaped in the absence of opposition but in the presence of it. Great leaders draw us together by our universal humanity; they galvanize the wills of the willing; they draw clarity from the spigot of chaos.
 Charles M. Blow
I made a mistake. I should've had two accounts, one for personal and one for office. And I didn't, and I take responsibility for that.
It is well to cultivate a friendly feeling towards error, to treat it as a companion inseparable from our lives, as something having a purpose, which it truly has.
The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
 Daniel J. Boorstin
Angela Davis offers a cartography of engagement in oppositional social movements and unwavering commitment to justice.
 Chandra Talpade Mohanty
The accountability of government has gone to the point where the very use of the law is the instrument of illegality.
 Ralph Nader
The traditional managerial mind-set is an analytical mind-set. It is about creating accountability and defining responsibilities.
 John Kao
I\'m crushed by the responsibility of writing a satirical book.
I'm crushed by the responsibility of writing a satirical book.
 Al Franken
A lot of people saved IBM. Yes, I was the leader of that team but I could never have done it without a group of IBMers helping me.
 Lou Gerstner
When it's all over, it's not who you were ... it's whether you made a difference.
 Bob Dole
As much as I would have liked to have kept my cancer private, I now realize that I have a certain responsibility to those who are fighting their own fights and may be able to benefit from learning about mine.
 Farrah Fawcett
Self-respecting men and women think about the consequences of their actions-and are willing to take responsibility for them.
 Nathaniel Branden
Rent Control is not a terrible movie, certainly not for the budget they had. And, again, it's such an '80s kind of thing.
 Brent Spiner
Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power; whether he is trapped by responsibility or made free by it; whether he is moved by other people and outer forces or moves them - this is of the essence of leadership.
 Theodore White
Paddy Ashdown is the only party leader who's a trained killer. Although, to be fair, Mrs Thatcher was self taught.
 Charles Kennedy
France now has a new president and he must be respected. I assume full responsibility for this defeat.
 Nicolas Sarkozy
Everybody says they want to be free. Take the train off the tracks and it’s free-but it can’t go anywhere.
Everybody says they want to be free. Take the train off the tracks and it’s free-but it can’t go anywhere.
The first duty of a newspaper is to be accurate. If it be accurate, it follows that it is fair.
 Herbert Bayard Swope