Inspiring Responsibility Quotes to Help You Take Charge of Your Life - page 68

Coming to the civil rights movement in the twentieth century, we begin to have this idea that\'s still with us today, which is that the main purpose of public education is closing achievement gaps.
Coming to the civil rights movement in the twentieth century, we begin to have this idea that's still with us today, which is that the main purpose of public education is closing achievement gaps.
 Dana Goldstein
The word "independence" is united to the accessory ideas of dignity and virtue. The word "dependence" is united to the ideas of inferiority and corruption.
 Jeremy Bentham
Execution is a systematic process of rigorously discussing hows and whats, tenaciously following through, and ensuring accountability.
 Lawrence Bossidy
You have to create circumstances where your first-tier leader knows what you are trying to accomplish, because he is the one who's going to get it done.
Life is always moving, changing, shifting into its next shape. The movement is natural. It is how we evolve. Let the shifts happen. Take responsibility for yourself each step of the way. Trust the new shape and form of your world
 Melody Beattie
I want a minister to be in charge of a line department so they have clear political accountability.
 Campbell Newman
Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.
 Henry A. Kissinger
Lying at the root of the social agreements of 1980 are the courage, sense of responsibility, and the solidarity of the working people. Both sides have then recognized that an accord must be reached if bloodshed is to be prevented.
 Lech Walesa
There's responsibility, but there's also accountability. You have to be accountable for your actions. You have to stand at your locker when things are going bad.
 Derek Jeter
Successful leaders have the courage to take action while others hesitate.
Successful leaders have the courage to take action while others hesitate.
I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.
There is no such thing as institutional conditions without any individual actions and no such thing as individual action without institutional conditions. So there is always personal responsibility.
Our world leaders ... need our help. They need the cavalry, and the cavalry's not going to come from Mars; it's got to come from us.
 Jamie Drummond
I frown at him. How does he know all this information? And why, after two years of avoiding becoming a Dauntless leader at all costs, is he suddenly acting like one?
Our country was born out of a desire to be free. And every day since, it's been protected by our men and women in uniform - people who believed so deeply in America, they were willing to give their lives for it.
The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.
 John D. Rockefeller
the female view that one strengthens oneself by strengthening others is finding greater acceptance, and female values of inclusion and connection are emerging as valuable leadership qualities.
 Sally Helgesen
Genius of AND. Embrace both extremes on a number of dimensions at the same time. Instead of choosing a OR B, figure out how to have A AND B-purpose AND profit, continuity AND change, freedom AND responsibility, etc.
 James C. Collins
We need, first of all, for there to be accountability, for there to be somebody who is responsible for enforcing standards and holding people\'s feet to the fire.
We need, first of all, for there to be accountability, for there to be somebody who is responsible for enforcing standards and holding people's feet to the fire.
 Jennifer Granholm
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do.