Quotes About Responsibility

Within the team you must balance demands, sometimes conflicting, between individual team members and the task, between individual team members and the team, between the team and the task, and between the team and the larger organization. Again, you're a juggler. And if you drop one of these balls, you must invest in damage control.

If I had to add anything, it would be that team leadership may be the most challenging of all leadership roles. In this arena, the team leader must lay aside his or her mantle of positional leader and take on the role of a servant leader, serving the task of the team as well as the individual members.

If you're the new messiah, I'm going to be the one to drive in the nails

There's no such things as coulda, shoulda, woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.

Leaders make a lot of decisions, they invariably make a lot of mistakes- more mistakes than an average person. Average person, whose decisions are never questioned and their words never challenged, keep making mistakes over and over again, because they never learn from their failures or their misjudgments. Only humble leaders learn and grow from their mistakes

Sloth is the great enemy -- the inspirer of cowardice, irresolution, self-pitying grief, and trivial, hairsplitting doubts. Sloth may also be a psychological cause of sickness. It is tempting to relax from our duties, take refuge in ill-health and hide under a nice warm blanket.

But you had a right to be angry." "Yes. But not to hurt those I love, or myself.

He is not here to help me with this; you must take his place.' Ducon started to speak, faltered. He stared at her, the bruise on his face suddenly vivid against his pallor, as if she had struck him.

Patricia Brennan Demuth

Among all of us there was a leadership philosophy expressed to the entire organization: If there is a problem and you tell me, it's our problem. If there is a problem and you don't tell me, it's your problem—and you don't want to have a problem!

His philosophy hasn't changed: to get in front of the problem and tell the truth about what is happening. "If problems exist, recognize them and take corrective steps immediately.

For Dimon steps such as taking write-downs when necessary and always preserving the quality of capital are part of "doing the right thing

shouldn't be blaming

Our actions and responsibilities are our own; what later returns to either haunt or applaud us is neither possible to predict nor always completely understandable.

Why should Dickie want to come back to subways and taxis and starched collars and a nine-to- five job? Or even a chauffeured car and vacations in Florida and Maine? It wasn't as much fun as sailing a boat in old clothes and being answerable to nobody for the way

You either let some event ruin your life or not. The decision is yours.

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I think people's lives are there own.

I don't want to hurt the child. Tell me what I must do to protect it, he demanded. That simple request opened Lily's heart to him more surely than anything else he could have said. She spread her fingers across the rough squareness of his jaw and met the intensity of his gaze with tenderness. The child grows well above where even you can reach. Just be gentle with the child's mother. His

He'll be fine with us. You can't worry about him all the time. Cade rode up behind Lily, catching her expression and partially interpreting it correctly. He's so young. Lily turned her head up to meet his gaze. He's all I've got, Cade. I've got a right to worry. I'll take care of him as well as you take care of Serena. No man can say better than that. I know that. Sighing, she turned and waved Roy off as he cantered after Abraham.

Oh, well, so 'tis, and we must do all that we can to help the poor dears." Fascinated, Katrina asked, "How? We are ladies. What can we do?" "Queen Maud was a lady! And so was Boadicea, and—and the Queen of Sheba! They managed to get things done, and—" "But were not Queen Maud and Boadicea put to death?" "Oh, dear! Were they?" Gwendolyn wrinkled her brow. "You

Fancy going out into the world under the impression that you can always have your own way! Would anything be more likely to lead to disaster?

A hen has to lay eggs, a cow has to give milk, and a canary has to sing. But a dog makes his living by giving you nothing but love.

Do the nieces come to see her? Oh, yes, now and then, out of a spirit of duty. But they dread these visits. They know they will have to sit and listen for hours to half-veiled reproaches. They will be treated to an endless litany of bitter complaints and self-pitying sighs. And when this woman can no longer bludgeon, browbeat, or bully her nieces into coming to see her, she has one of her "spells." She develops a heart attack.