Inspiring Responsibility Quotes to Help You Take Charge of Your Life - page 69

We cannot have a just society that applies the principle of accountability to the powerless and the principle of forgiveness to the powerful. This is the America in which we currently reside.
We cannot have a just society that applies the principle of accountability to the powerless and the principle of forgiveness to the powerful. This is the America in which we currently reside.
 Chris Hayes
History will never accept difficulties as an excuse.
Don't let fear decide your future.
 Shalane Flanagan
The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.
If you doubt you can accomplish something, then you can't accomplish it. You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.
 Rosalynn Carter
Education is a shared commitment between dedicated teachers, motivated students and enthusiastic parents with high expectations.
 Bob Beauprez
The most consistent gift and burden of motherhood is advice.
 Susan Chira
We all know them — the unstructured person whose every action seems aimless and the totally organized person whose every action defeats some purpose.
My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose - somehow we win out.
I think you can improve on that natural ability with training and exposure to great leaders of the past and to management theories.
I think you can improve on that natural ability with training and exposure to great leaders of the past and to management theories.
Just the way in Europe, Paris, Copenhagen, and Stockholm, and Frankfurt, possibly and Berlin, certainly, all had important roles, because of independence. Because they were depending on themselves.
 Jane Jacobs
A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last.
 Joseph Fort Newton
Leaders who insulate themselves from others and choose to bear their burdens single-handedly are destined for loneliness and burnout. Leaders, like everyone else, need friends and perhaps in light of the load they carry, even more so.
 Richard Blackaby
I thought my mom's whole purpose was to be my mom. That's how she made me feel.
 Natasha Gregson Wagner
Military cemeteries in every corner of the world are silent testimony to the failure of national leaders to sanctify human life.
 Yitzhak Rabin
There are those who offer themselves as leaders who even play politics with a nomination of our nations chief law enforcement officer, finally, Loretta Lynch will be able to assume the position she has trained her lifetime for.
Certainly I accept my role and responsibility as a public figure and a lot of it you take the good with the bad, dealing with different adversities in life, you just try to do the best you can do.
 Tom Brady
You have access to the Tent Of Meeting.
 Francis Chan
We will energize America by achieving energy independence
We will energize America by achieving energy independence
 Nancy Pelosi
I believe - we all pay taxes. I'm happy to pay it, but I hate to have it abused, money wasted, no accountability. That's going to bother you.
 Lou Holtz