Inspiring Responsibility Quotes to Help You Take Charge of Your Life - page 120

Power breeds responsibilities, in international affairs as in domestic - or even private. To dodge or disclaim these responsibilities is one form of the abuse of power.
Power breeds responsibilities, in international affairs as in domestic - or even private. To dodge or disclaim these responsibilities is one form of the abuse of power.
 Irving Kristol
I just think we need more accountability and more transparency.
 John Thune
Statesman create; ordinary leaders consume. The ordinary leader is satisfied with ameliorating the environment, not transforming it; a statesman must be a visionary and an educator.
 Henry A. Kissinger
I could hardly be responsible for my actions when everyone around me gave me every opportunity to sink to their low expectations.
 Darynda Jones
The most shattering thought I've ever had is my personal accountability to God one day
 Leonard Ravenhill
You can't teach court savvy
 Dean Smith
It means a lot. It means I'm accountable.
 Champ Bailey
The things he did on purpose were usually no different from the mistakes he made by accident.
 Chuck Klosterman
The ability to see the future can be a burden, and the younger you are and the more isolated you feel, maybe the more of a burden it is.
 John Irving
To elevate the goals of humankind, to achieve high moral purpose, to realize major intended change, leaders must thrust themselves into the most intractable processes and structures of history and ultimately master them.
To elevate the goals of humankind, to achieve high moral purpose, to realize major intended change, leaders must thrust themselves into the most intractable processes and structures of history and ultimately master them.
 James MacGregor Burns
You always have a choice. Don't ever imagine you don't. Whatever you do, it's a decision and you have to accept responsibility for it. That's when honor becomes more than empty words.
 Lynn Flewelling
When the people are too much attached to savage independence, to be tolerant of the amount of power to which it is for their good that they should be subject, the state of society is not yet ripe for representative government.
Pride is the fuel of human accomplishment.
 Wilbur L. Creech
He ran a gas station down in St. Louis. No, Mahatma Gandhi was a great leader of the 20th century.
When you learn something from people, or from a culture, you accept it as a gift, and it is your lifelong commitment to preserve it and build on it.
 Yo-Yo Ma
Positive questions bring out the best in people, inspire positive action, and create possibilities for positive futures.
 Diana Whitney
Standardized personalization=universal right to meaningful learning. Personalized standardization=flexible access to mandated learning.
 Andy Hargreaves
Man is abandoned on earth in the midst of his infinite responsibilities, without help, with no aim but what he sets himself.
You can become instantly successful with a simple thought, but long-lasting and pronounced success comes to those who renew their commitment to a mindset of abundance every minute of every hour of every day.
You can become instantly successful with a simple thought, but long-lasting and pronounced success comes to those who renew their commitment to a mindset of abundance every minute of every hour of every day.
Have you noticed that all the people in favor of birth control are already born?
 Benny Hill