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Quotes About Responsibility

Free will is the power of choosing good and evil.
~ Origen
The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
~ Benjamin Spock
We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves.
~ Swami Vivekananda
People have the power to redeem the work of fools.
~ Patti Smith
Leaders goal: Understand the power of serving a leader further down the road than you because leadership is contagious.
~ Brian Houston
Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done, even in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse. There lies freedom, indeed.
~ George MacDonald
Be mindful of the words that you use and the actions that you live and who you are and how it is you use your power. Keep clear at all times that you are what you say you are.
~ Gary Zukav
Power as is really divided, and as dangerously to all purposes, by sharing with another an Indirect Power, as a Direct one.
~ Thomas Hobbes
The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.
~ George Eliot
Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.
~ Edward Abbey
Ecological devastation is the excrement, so to speak, of man's power worship.
~ Ernest Becker
When you give politicians the power to do what you think is right you're automatically giving politicians the power to do what you think is wrong.
~ Harry Browne
I too belong to an OBC caste but I have never used my community to get power
~ Narendra Modi
When extraordinary power and extraordinary pay are allotted to any individual in a government, he becomes the center, round which every kind of corruption generates and forms.
~ Thomas Paine
The leader builds dispersed and diverse leadership - distributing leadership to the outermost edges of the circle to unleash the power of shared responsibility.
~ Frances Hesselbein
Remember that everyone's life is measured by the power that individual has to make the world better-this is all life is.
~ Booker T. Washington
The mere possession of a gun is, in itself, an urge to kill, not only by design, but by accident, by madness, by fright, by bravado.
~ Louisa May Alcott
If those to whom power is delegated do well, they will be respected; if not, they will be despised.
~ Thomas Paine
It is a misuse of our power to take responsibility for solving problems that belong to others.
~ Peter Block
Responsibility without power, the fate of the secretary through the ages.
~ Ariel Dorfman
The thing that always strikes me is how much power one person has. Everybody has so much power to help and to change if they just exercise it and get after it.
~ Pete Carroll
An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Every moment comes to you pregnant with divine purpose . . . . Once it leaves your hands and your power to do with it as you please, it plunges into eternity, to remain forever what you made it.
~ Fulton J. Sheen
You've got to take responsibility and to do everything in your power to get results. Hopefully players look at that and try and follow it.
~ Steven Gerrard