Quotes About Responsibility

To Be a Great Leader, First Become a Great Person.

If everyone would sweep their own doorstep, the whole world will be clean.

Victims recite problems. Leaders present solutions.

Victims have big TVs. Leaders own large libraries.

the quality of your life will come down to the quality of your contribution.

I'm getting why Steve Jobs didn't give his kids the very things he sold to the world. He understood how addictive they could be, if improperly used. And how they could make us less human and less alive.

Mother Teresa said it so well: 'If everyone would sweep their own doorstep, the whole world will be clean.

We all need to lead where we are planted and shine where we now find ourselves.

One of the lessons I have learned in my own life is that if you don't act on life, life has a habit of acting on you.

Don't pick up the phone every time it rings. It is there for your convenience, not the convenience of others.

If everyone would sweep their own doorstep, the whole world will be clean.' 

Winston Churchill said that 'the price of greatness is responsibility over each of your thoughts.

Perhaps I lost sight of my dreams when I became an adult and resigned myself to acting the way adults were supposed to act.

this world needs human beings behaving like leaders more than ever before.

leadership means taking personal responsibility for results. Leadership means you get things done. Leadership means you keep your promises.

blaming others is nothing more than excusing yourself.

Life's all about balance. And one of the most vital of all balance points is the one involving freedom and responsibility.

Adults are deteriorated children

leaders are those individuals who do the things that failures aren't willing to do—even though they might not like doing them either. They have the discipline to do what they know to be important—and right—versus what's easy and fun.

We've encouraged a culture of soft, weak and delicate people who can't keep promises, who bail on commitments and who quit on their aspirations the moment the smallest obstacle shows up.

Simply remember that no matter what your position within any organization and no matter how old you are or where you live throughout the world, you have the power to show leadership. And no one and nothing can ever deny you that. But it's totally your responsibility to activate that power.

Tennis great Billie Jean King said that pressure is a privilege

The starting point of enlightenment, a goal that every person should strive for, is inner leadership. Leadership is far more than something businesspeople do at work. Leadership is all about personal responsibility, self-discovery, and creating value in the world by the people we become.

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.