Quotes About Responsibility

Any man who retreats into a cave which has only one opening deserves to die.

Listening is not a displacement for leadership. You have to have leadership.

Leadership is like parenting.

If you don't choose to do it in leadership time up front, you do it in crisis management time down the road.

Finding the leaders of the future is a question of recognizing those people who give leadership in a crisis.

The world is looking to us for leadership. We have provided it in the past; the main reason why anti-American feelings are so strong in the world today is that we are not providing it in the present.

People are not afraid of failure, they're afraid of blame.

The United States is the leader of the free world.

There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.

We are not responsible for our endowments or natural abilities, but we are responsible for the strategic use of time.

People do look to others for some leadership, and it's not bad for them to supply it when they feel that way.

Leadership is the power of one harnessing the power of many.

The trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership.

..leaders should be looked upon as being 'in front', 'sharing' rather than 'showing' the way... it is the followers who save leaders and therefore make them.

A sense of responsibility is the clearest indication of mature leadership.

Leadership is obliged to justify itself daily.

Thank God for the tough times. They are the reason you are there - to be the leader. If everything was going well, the people wouldn't need you!

Leadership is a dare - and the dare is, 'Are you willing to show up?'

The more princes abstain from touching the wealth of their people, the greater will be their resources in the wants of the state.

Consensus is a poor substitute for leadership.

A leader can't dash ahead around the bend out of sight.

A woman never wrote, "Thou shalt not commit adultery." God wrote that. You sin first and foremost against God.

(On being in a position of leadership) Even if it's your dog, you've got authority over somebody. Start treating him better.

The ruler attains wholeness in the correct governance of the people.