Quotes About Responsibility

You have to take ownership and leadership of tomorrow. For that to be possible, you have to strengthen your capacity and widen your vision as a global citizen.

Leadership is not about being in charge. Leadership is about taking care of those in your charge.

If you look after your staff, they'll look after your customers. It's that simple.

Leadership is not a position or a title, it is action and example.

It is difficult to practice obedience; but it is even more difficult to practice leadership.

Remember you live in a community. You have a responsibility to be accountable to your family and your community as well as yourself.

Leadership is not a popularity contest; it's about leaving your ego at the door. The name of the game is to lead without a title

If you think you are leading and turn around to see no one following, then you are just taking a walk.

The Function of Leadership is to produce more Leaders, Not more Followers.

Leadership is a series of behaviors rather than a role for heroes.

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality.

Leadership is the ability to decide what is to be done and then get others to do it.

Leadership is never given on a silver platter, one has to earn it.

Future leaders will be less concerned with saying what they will deliver and more concerned with delivering what they have said they would.

Any commander who fails to exceed his authority is not of much use to his subordinates.

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do.

Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.

Your most important task as a leader is to teach people how to think and ask the right questions so that the world doesn't go to hell if you take a day off.

Leadership must be based on goodwill. Goodwill does not mean posturing and, least of all, pandering to the mob. It means obvious and wholehearted commitment to helping followers.

Bipartisanship isn't an option anymore; it is a requirement. The American people have divided responsibility for leadership right down the middle.

Leadership is a choice, not a position

The first step to leadership is servanthood.

Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.

The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them.