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Quotes About Responsibility

The wrath of God lies sleeping. It was hid a million years before men were and only men have the power to wake it.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Broken people misuse their power while people who have values don't use their powers in a way that harms.
~ Mark Pellegrino
Power is a neutral energy source, like tofu. It's what you do with it that gives it flavor.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Political power intoxicates the best hearts. No man is wise enough, nor good enough, to be trusted with much political power.
~ Hans F. Sennholz
We are the greatest power in the world. If we behave like it.
~ Walt Whitman Rostow
Power should be reserved for weightlifting and boats, and leadership really involves responsibility.
~ Herb Kelleher
You gain or lose power according to the choices that you make.
~ Gary Zukav
Distinguish between power and control, delegate, be decisive - and always remember people's first names.
~ Alex Ferguson
The obligation to receive reduces our ability to choose whom we wish to be indebted to and puts that power in the hands of others.
~ Robert Cialdini
Unless someone truly has the power to say no, they never truly have the power to say yes.
~ Dan Millman
As men, we all have something to give. We all have the power to do our own part to stop the global pandemic of violence against women and girls. It is holding us all back.
~ Richard Branson
Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority...
~ Lord Acton
We in the press, by our power, can actually undermine leadership.
~ Christiane Amanpour
Public education has served as a check on the power of parents, and this is another powerful reason for maintaining it.
~ John Goodlad
I believe the power to make money is a gift from God...to be developed and used to the best of our ability for the good of mankind.
~ John D. Rockefeller
Never define people or situations in terms of their effect on you, unless you want to give them the power to make you feel that way.
~ Bill Crawford
The press is not only free, it is powerful. That power is ours. It is the proudest that man can enjoy.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and historical tasks is an actual or potential assassin.
~ Albert Camus
We have a call to do good, as often as we have the power and occasion.
~ William Penn
The law cannot forgive, for the law has not been wronged, only broken; only persons can be wronged. The law can pardon, but it can only pardon what it has the power to punish.
~ W. H. Auden
Th abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power.
~ William Shakespeare
A monarch must sometimes rule even himself: he who wants everything must risk very little.
~ Pierre Corneille
Think What You Do When You Run in Debt: You Give to Another Power over Your Liberty
~ Benjamin Franklin
We want very good leaders who have a lot of power.
~ Charlie Munger