Great leaders are those who are able to look reality in the face, however painful it may be, and deal with it.
Inspiring Responsibility Quotes to Help You Take Charge of Your Life - page 85
The multitude who require to be led, still hate their leaders.
Our government has become incompetent, unresponsive, corrupt. And that incompetence, ineptitude, lack of accountability is now dangerous.
Carly Fiorina
We must add our voices to those who cry out that there is a standard below which we will not allow human beings to live, and that that standard is not at the freezing nor starving point....In a democracy all are responsible.
Hannah G. Solomon
I can't accept collective responsibility for the decision to commit Britain now to military action in Iraq without international agreement or domestic support.
Robin Cook
I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me.
Laurence Sterne
Motown will always be a heavy-duty part of my life because those are my roots
Smokey Robinson
Violence is a concession to human weakness, satyagraha is an obligation.
Competence goes beyond words. It's the leader's ability to say it, plan it, and do it in such a way that others know that you know how - and know that they want to follow you.
If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive.
Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
My commitment to the Republican movement was pure and simply patriotism, a love of Australia... a desire or passion that all of our national symbols should be unequivocally and unambiguously Australian.
Malcolm Turnbull
The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between the great and the insignificant, its energy - invincible determination - a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory.
Sir Fowell Buxton, 1st Baronet
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
We have absolute trust in our employees. In fact, we are partners with them.
Ricardo Semler
We are responsible for actions performed in response to circumstances for which we are not responsible.
Allan Massie
It's numbers like these that both bubble-theorists and market cheerleaders can pounce on to make their points. Reality is more mundane.
Prentice Marshall
We've got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.
History will look back, and I'm fully prepared to accept any mistakes that history judges to my administration, because the president makes the decisions, the president has to take the responsibility.
