Quotes About Responsibility

Leadership has less to do with position than it does disposition.

People who blame others for their failures never overcome them. They simply move from problem to problem. To reach your potential, you must continually improve yourself, and you can't do that if you don't take responsibility for your actions and learn from your mistakes.

It's not the position that makes the leader; it's the leader that makes the position. -STANLEY HUFFTY

It is our business to do what's right; it's God's business to make sure everything turns out right.

And you will have greater credibility with your leader if you admit your shortcomings and refrain from making excuses.

It's easier to move from failure to success than from excuses to success.

Somos los amos o las víctimas de nuestras actitudes. Es un asunto de decisión personal. Lo que ahora somos es el resultado de las decisiones tomadas ayer. Mañana seremos lo que decidamos ahora.

Trying to get the right person in the right job can take a lot of time and energy. Let's face it. Isn't it easier for a leader to just put people where it is most convenient and get on with the work? Once again, this is an area where leaders' desire for action works against them.

When an archer misses the mark he turns and looks for the fault within himself. Failure to hit the bull's-eye is never the fault of the target. To improve your aim, improve yourself.

if you don't have peace, it isn't because someone took it from you; you gave it away. You cannot always control what happens to you, but you can control what happens in you.

if you are aware of a problem, it's your responsibility to make a concerted effort to create a positive change. Quit pointing your finger and making excuses, and try being a catalyst by demonstrating and initiating the appropriate behavior. Determine not to be a reactor but an initiator.

Henry David Thoreau wrote, "One is not born into the world to do everything, but to do something.

All I was responsible to do was share Christ with the person. It's not my job to save him or her. The failure lies in being one who never shares his or her faith with others. Fear of rejection, mistakes, and failure causes people to make the worst mistake of all—that of doing nothing. When you make a mistake, you can resolve never to make another one.

Consider this skeletal anatomy of an organization: • The wishbones wish somebody else would do the work. • The jawbones talk a lot but do little else. • The knucklebones knock what everyone else does. • The backbones actually do the work! Encourage

You can't change yesterday. You can't control tomorrow. But you can choose what you do today with the goal that those choices will make things better tomorrow.

Cuando usted hace un compromiso con otra persona, usted genera esperanza. Cuando cumple ese compromiso, genera confianza.

Other times leaders have to hold their feelings in check. When I say that leaders should delay their emotions, I'm not suggesting that they deny them or bury them. The bottom line in managing your emotions is that you should put others—not yourself—first in how you handle and process them. Whether you delay or display your emotions should not be for your own gratification.

There is nothing more tragic than when a Christian leader loses God's anointing on his life by allowing himself to become sidetracked. There is no higher violation of God's trust. For when a leader stumbles, others fall.

Whenever people on my team come to me with a problem, I ask them to prepare at least three solutions to that problem.

There is no future in any job. The future lies in the person who holds the job.

We can't choose whether we will get any more time, but we can choose what we do with it.

People don't expect their leaders to be perfect, but they do expect them to be honest. If

Los resultados hablan más alto, para nuestros jefes y para aquellos a quienes lideramos.

leading isn't about controlling; it's about releasing.