Inspiring Responsibility Quotes to Help You Take Charge of Your Life - page 31

A decision is made with the brain. A commitment is made with the heart. Therefore, a commitment is much deeper and more binding than a decision
A decision is made with the brain. A commitment is made with the heart. Therefore, a commitment is much deeper and more binding than a decision
 Nido R Qubein
A man without a sense of purpose, even one whose bank accounts are stuffed with money, is always a small man.
Just as nature takes every obstacle, every impediment, and works around it--turns it to its purposes, incorporates it into itself, so, too, a rational being can turn each setback into raw material and use it to achieve its goal.
Great leadership does not mean running away from reality. Sometimes the hard truths might just demoralize the company, but at other times sharing difficulties can inspire people to take action that will make the situation better.
 John P. Kotter
Birth Control and abortion are turning out to be the great eugenic advances of our time.
 Frederick Osborn
Take away my people, but leave my factories and soon grass will grow on the factory floors......Take away my factories, but leave my people and soon we will have a new and better factory.
 Andrew Carnegie
He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious.
It takes courage to speak up against complacency and injustice while others remain silent. But that's what leadership is.
 Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Leaders live by choice, not by accident.
 Mark Gorman
There [Haiti] were also leaders like Jean-Jacques Dessalines, whose motto was, \
There [Haiti] were also leaders like Jean-Jacques Dessalines, whose motto was, "Cut their heads off, burn their houses.
 Edwidge Danticat
Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
My attitude is never to be satisfied, never enough, never.
 Bela Karolyi
The mantra of independence was Satyagraha. And the warriors were Satyagrahis. The mantra of New Age India must be Swachhagrah. And the warriors will be Swachhagrahis.
Films are very influential, and I especially feel a responsibility to tell stories that have been pushed aside. Being able to shed light on issues that need to be brought to the world.
 Q'orianka Kilcher
I have stopped waiting on our leaders. We have been forced to fear the system. But unless we change our ways and the way we see each other, we won't move forward.
I think self-reliance and self-responsibility and self-accountability will help you as a parent, a teacher, as a citizen as a friend.
Your job as a leader is to try to inspire them to do more work than they've ever done in their life under conditions that they can't imagine.
 Paul Sereno
Work ethic, confidence, a laser focus and commitment to accomplish a goal that most people can never imagine.
 Daniel Cormier
And if God has given you a lot of ability, I believe you should be held to a higher level of expectation.
And if God has given you a lot of ability, I believe you should be held to a higher level of expectation.
 Tony Dungy
I think Americans suspect, without even being able to articulate it, that we're at the end of the American century; that we're at the end of the 100 or 125 or 150 years when we were the undisputed arbiter and leader of the world.