Inspiring Responsibility Quotes to Help You Take Charge of Your Life - page 118

Moving ourselves to the background and others to the foreground is evidence that the (spiritual) search is achieving its purpose.
Moving ourselves to the background and others to the foreground is evidence that the (spiritual) search is achieving its purpose.
 Arianna Huffington
Leaders create and inspire new leaders by instilling faith in their leadership abilities and helping them develop and hone leadership skills they don't know they possess.
It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
 Francis of Assisi
I never taught language for the purpose of teaching it; but invariably used language as a medium for the communication of thought; thus the learning of language was coincident with the acquisition of knowledge.
 Anne Sullivan Macy
To be an atheist you have to have ten thousand times more imagination than if you are a religious fundamentalist. You must take the responsibility to acquire information, digest and use it to understand what you can.
 Peter Greenaway
A commitment to human rights cannot be fostered simply through the transmission of knowledge. Action and experience play a crucial role in the learning process.
 Daisaku Ikeda
Every woman who has any margin of time or money to spare should adopt some one public interest, some philanthropic undertaking,or some social agitation of reform, and give to that cause whatever time and work she may be able to afford.
 Frances Power Cobbe
I am your servant. You have the right to dismiss me when you please. What you have no right to do is ask me to bear responsibility without the power of action.
If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
I am proactive in every duty, except that which requires action.
 Wes Fesler
I got successful awfully quick, and I wanted it... But I do think there is responsibility to move the musical theater form forward. I think you always have to be aware of the work that came before and build on that.
 Harold Prince
But Sarah Weddingtonhad never told me that what I was signing would allow women to use abortions as a form of birth control. We talked about truly desperate and needy women, not women already wearing maternity clothes.
 Norma McCorvey
The choice of life is not between fame and fortune, nor wealth and poverty, but between good and evil.
 Boyd K. Packer
Man, I wouldn't know where to begin on education reform, but one thing we have to do is add teacher accountability WITHOUT stressing standardized test scores.
 Raheem Jarbo
The thing to keep in mind is that laws are framed by those who happen to be in power and for the purpose of keeping them in power.
 Mary Brave Bird
As daughters of our Heavenly Father, and as daughters of Eve, we are all mothers and we have always been mothers. And we each have the responsibility to love and help lead the rising generation.
 Sheri L. Dew
I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy
 A. J. Liebling
Most leaders would agree that they’d be better off having an average strategy with superb execution than a superb strategy with poor execution.  Those who execute always have the upper hand.
Most leaders would agree that they’d be better off having an average strategy with superb execution than a superb strategy with poor execution.  Those who execute always have the upper hand.
An uplifting sense of purpose is more than an impetus for individual accomplishment, it is also a necessary insurance policy against expediency and impropriety.
 Gary Hamel