Leadership Responsibility Quotes

#1. Leadership responsibility is multidimensional and cannot be described in one or two words. It is personal, interpersonal, environmental and societal.

Linda Fisher Thornton

#2. Leadership responsibility: If you own a biz, you're the head of the org. Good or bad, your company will LOOK and ACT like you do.

Dave Ramsey

#3. The American president has a peculiar leadership responsibility to speak out for freedom.

Ted Cruz

#4. We must recognize that as the dominant power in the world we have a special responsibility. In addition to protecting our national interests, we must take the leadership in protecting the common interests of humanity.

George Soros

#5. Leaders inspire accountability through their ability to accept responsibility before they place blame.

Courtney Lynch

#6. Transmit your vision emotionally by gaining credibility, demonstrating passion, establishing relationships and communicating a felt need. Transmit it logically by confronting reality, formulating strategy, accepting responsibility, celebrating victory and learning from defeat.

John C. Maxwell

#7. On the other hand, the waging of peace as a science, as an art, is in its infancy. But we can trace its growth, its steady progress, and the time will come when there will be particular individuals designated to assume responsibility for and leadership of this movement.

Fredrik Bajer

#8. Too few leaders have the emotional fortitude to take responsibility for failure.

Paul Gibbons

#9. Leadership is one of the most enduring, universal human responsibilities.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

#10. All leadership begins from inside a person and must be developed and grown as they grow into emerging and enduring leaders

Thomas Narofsky

#11. Any government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.
[On Water]

Guy De Maupassant

#12. I feel it is our inherent duty as a humane society, above any intangible responsibility, to invest in our world's children's potential, passion and confidence.

Masiela Lusha

#13. Of course the servants had chosen not to follow me; I'd failed them already by refusing to be a man they could believe in.

Megan Whalen Turner

#14. It's a tremendous responsibility to be direct descendants of the prophet Muhammad. This family has had the burden of leadership on its shoulders for 1,400 years. I'm not going to drop the ball on my shift.

Abdallah II Of Jordan

#15. Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folkways and superstition, and of cooperation for force. It means the substitution of responsibility for obedience to rank, and of authority of performance for the authority of rank.

Peter Drucker

#16. If you want to be positive, upbeat, and passionate, you need to take responsibility for being that way.

John C. Maxwell

#17. If you are given a public responsibility, you have to listen, weigh up all the issues, but ultimately you have to form a view of what you genuinely think is in the public interest ... put the public interest above the vested interest.

Graeme Samuel

#18. leadership means taking personal responsibility for results. Leadership means you get things done. Leadership means you keep your promises.

Robin S. Sharma

#19. Headship is the divine calling of a husband to take primary responsibility for Christlike, servant leadership, protection, and provision in the home.

John Piper

#20. Those with visible responsibility for leadership are nearly always too visible to take responsibility for change ...

Harlan Cleveland

#21. I think America has a responsibility to maintain its leadership in technology and its moral leadership in the world, to explore, to seek knowledge.

Eugene Cernan

#22. Leadership is about taking charge and influencing others to follow your vision. It's about going against the odds and accepting responsibility for the outcomes along the way

Robin Crow

#23. Leadership - leadership is about taking responsibility, not making excuses.

Mitt Romney

#24. My responsibility is leadership, and the minute I get negative, that is going to have an influence on my team.

Don Shula

#25. Quaker author Parker Palmer said, "A leader is a person who must take special responsibility for what's going on inside of himself or herself . . . lest the act of leadership create more harm than good."[5]

Lance Witt

#26. The responsibility of building leadership in the Church belongs to the father and the mother ... As youth grow and mature through their teenage years and move toward adulthood, the Church picks up an important role in this process of giving youth an opportunity to lead, but it begins in the home.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#27. A leadership development plan has to address these three phases: Identifying emerging leaders Investing in the development of emerging leaders Entrusting responsibility to emerging leaders

Bill Hybels

#28. The courage of leadership is giving others the chance to succeed even though you bear the responsibility for getting things done.

Simon Sinek

#29. Delegation is thepassing on of actions, actions, not the passing on of responsibility.

Eric Edmeades

#30. Leadership is not a license to do less; it is a responsibility to do more.

Simon Sinek

#31. The power to lead is the power to mislead, and the power to mislead is the power to destroy.

Thomas S. Monson

#32. On the security front, the United States must continue to play a leadership role. There simply is not another country in the world that commands the respect or has the capabilities that we do, and we must not shrink from our responsibilities.

Dan Quayle

#33. Yea, he who is a true king of men, will not say to himself, 'Lo! I am worthy to be crowned with laurels;' but rather will he say to himself, 'What more is there that I may do to make the world the better because of my endeavors?

Howard Pyle

#34. What's missing is leadership in the White House. And the story that Barack Obama does tell, forever shifting blame to the last administration, is getting old. The man assumed office almost four years ago - isn't it about time he assumed responsibility?

Paul Ryan

#35. Democracy and equality try to denythe mystic recognition of difference and innate priority, the joy of obedience and the sacred responsibility of authority.

D.H. Lawrence

#36. We treat employees as a member of the family. If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.

Akio Morita

#37. If an artist is driven primarily by social responsibility, I think the art probably suffers because, again, just as leadership has a rather defined end point or purpose, social responsibility would seem to have a very clear moral context.

Billy Collins

#38. I began at some point to understand the whole idea of accountability and responsibility and leadership, and I think that was something that really birthed something in me, where I knew I wanted to be part of a larger equation in our society.

Wes Moore

#39. The price of LEADERSHIP is RESPONSIBILITY ... and part of that responsibility is to STAY POSITIVE whether you feel like it or not.

Lou Holtz

#40. Leadership is not a right-it is a responsibility.

John C. Maxwell

#41. The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.

Mao Zedong

#42. Managers' responsibility is to ensure that people deliver the expected results, which are the company's strategy. The company's strategy, in turn, determines its competitive advantage. So, if a manager does a poor job of motivating employees' productivity, the enterprise is a weak competitor.

Anna Stevens

#43. If architecture is going to nudge, cajole, and inspire a community to challenge the status quo into making responsible changes, it will take the subversive leadership of academics and practitioners who keep reminding students of the profession's responsibilities.

Samuel Mockbee

#44. And how does one lead? We lead by doing; we lead by being.

Bryant McGill

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

John C. Maxwell

#46. The lessons I learned in Vietnam and in the NFL reinforced one another:
teamwork, sacrifice, responsibility, accountability, and leadership.

Rocky Bleier

#47. I think the greater responsibility, in terms of morality, is where leadership begins.

Norman Lear

#48. May we graciously accept our responsibility.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#49. Remember that the mantle of leadership is not the cloak of comfort, but the robe of responsibility. Accountability is not for the intention but for the deed. You must continue to choose the harder right, instead of the easier wrong.

Thomas S. Monson

#50. It's time to care; it's time to take responsibility; it's time to lead; it's time for a change; it's time to be true to our greatest self; it's time to stop blaming others.

Steve Maraboli

#51. A leader is often judged by how well he bears responsibility. As king, everything that happens in your kingdom - regardless of who commits the act -is your fault.

Brandon Sanderson

#52. I think that's just one type of leadership, which is the type I have: the need to find a new way and take responsibility for other people.

Harry West

#53. Eisenhower on LBJ: He hadn't got the depth of mind nor the breath vision to carry great responsibility.

David Pietrusza

#54. No one can become successful for you. It takes personal definitions, personal decisions, personal convictions, personal actions and personal responsibility to succeed in life.

Archibald Marwizi

#55. Leadership involves the heavy burden of responsibility, and the fear of getting it wrong can paralyze a leader.

John C. Maxwell

#56. The mantle of leadership is not the cloak of comfort but rather the robe of responsibility.

Thomas S. Monson

#57. These things sensibly affected Theseus, who, thinking it but just not to disregard, but rather partake of, the sufferings of his fellow citizens, offered himself for one without any lot. All else were struck with admiration for the nobleness and with love for the goodness of the act.

Plutarch

#58. You can't talk about leadership without talking about responsibility and accountability ... you can't separate the two. A leader must delegate responsibility and provide the freedom to make decisions, and then be held accountable for the results.

Buck Rodgers

#59. When it comes to the arc of your life, leadership is a sacred responsibility.

Paul Gibbons

#60. A fundamental responsibility of leadership is make sure that everybody knows the mission, understands it, lives it.

Peter Drucker

#61. Unless today is well lived, tomorrow is not important.

Alan Sakowitz

#62. Don't Give Someone Responsibility without Requisite Authority

Miles Anthony Smith

#63. Leadership is taking responsibility while others are making excuses.

John C. Maxwell

#64. As a leader, you have to take responsibility for your own failures as well as successes. That's the only way you'll learn.
If you keep learning, you'll improve.
If you improve, your leadership will get better.
And in time, you will earn the right to lead on the level you deserve.

John C. Maxwell

#65. Always be the light. Do not wait for others to take responsibility

Sunday Adelaja

#66. I can't explain the lack of integrity among some of the leaders of our health care facilities. This is something I rarely encountered during 38 years in uniform. And so I will not defend it because it is indefensible. But I can take responsibility for it and I do.

Eric Shinseki

#67. Leadership isn't something that people hand to you ... [i]t's a gradual process, one where you take responsibility years before you are given authority. And that's something we can teach.

Seth Godin

#68. All around you, production must be taking place to bring you closer to realizing your defined success. Adopt a personal responsibility attitude to enable the realization of your dreams.

Archibald Marwizi

#69. When you accept a leadership role, you take on extra responsibility for your actions toward others.

Kelley Armstrong

#70. True leadership is often the mantle of the meek, who are rarely are prepared for such responsibility; which builds character in those who embrace it.

M.J. Stoddard

#71. Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.

Colin Powell

#72. In all, Nigeria belongs to us all and we have a personal responsibility to see that it succeeds

Fela Durotoye

#73. In one of my recent books, 'The Success Principles,' I taught 64 lessons that help people achieve what they want out of life. From taking nothing less than 100 percent responsibility for your life to empowering others, these are the fundamentals to success - and to great leadership.

Jack Canfield

#74. Leadership happens at every level of the organization and no one can shirk from this responsibility.

Jerry Junkins

#75. The leader sees leadership as responsibility rather than as rank and privilege.

Peter Drucker

#76. Real leadership is not about prestige, power, or status. It is about responsibility.

Robert L. Joss

#77. Organizing a coup was not the same as wanting one.

David Pietrusza

#78. Leadership is about vision and responsibility, not power.

Seth Berkley

#79. From the prophets of Israel Lincoln had learned the note will idea that there can be serving people, with responsibility to the entire "family of man".

Elton Trueblood

#80. Your personal development is your personal responsibility. No one can study or acquire knowledge for you. There are things only you can do, to bring the change or the results you require to make progress in life.

Archibald Marwizi

#81. The responsibility of leadership is not to come up with all the ideas but to create an environment in which great ideas can thrive.

Simon Sinek

#82. In leadership writ large, mutually agreed upon purposes help people achieve consensus, assume responsibility, work for the common good, and build community.

Joseph C. Rost

#83. Pride does not only come with great responsibility. It is buy one get one free. Great responsibility will require great resourcefulness.

Janna Cachola

#84. Self Change is a 'RESPONSIBILITY' upon us ! It is not something that comes from outside of us.The realisations, the acceptance, the efforts, the thought, the actions ....all lead to change! It is our ABILITY to RESPOND to the 'Change' needed!

Abha Maryada Banerjee

#85. We must see the new Nigeria The Nigeria We Want we must accept personal responsibility to build it

Fela Durotoye

#86. Leadership is not rank, privileges, title or money. It is responsibility.

Peter Drucker

#87. Priesthood lessons are regularly devoted to topics of family leadership, and quorum leaders everywhere are feeling more and more their responsibility to teach and train their quorum members to be better husbands and fathers.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#88. Our first responsibility as a leader is to create an attractive dream, to proclaim a destination, communicating it in detail to others who might be interested in joining our expedition.

Susan Collins

#89. We think leadership is about rank and power, but better to think of leadership as the responsibility for other human beings. That leadership and rank may not go together. So it manifests in this remarkable way.

Simon Sinek

#90. Parishes that have learned to develop a culture of continual invitation to leadership, training, and growth in responsibility for their members are predisposed to ongoing health and growth when pastor transitions occur

William E. Simon Jr.

#91. Times of upheaval require not just more leadership but more leaders. People at all organizational levels, whether anointed or self-appointed, must be empowered to share leadership responsibilities.

Rosalynn Carter

#92. The only way I see an out is for you to take full responsibility.

Johnny Hunt

#93. Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.

Peter F. Drucker

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

Tom Daschle

#95. A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten', he does not say 'My men were beaten.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#96. Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.
[News conference, April 21 1961]

John F. Kennedy

#97. It's a huge responsibility to have influence and to steward it in a way that leads to God-honoring leadership.

Bill Hybels

#98. As a veteran, I believe we have a responsibility to take care of all our men and women who have served - and I will fight to fix the crisis at the Veterans Administration caused by negligent leadership in Washington.

Joni Ernst

#99. When you accepted your job, you were not chosen solely to fill a position on the organization chart; you were chosen to fill a responsibility.

David Cottrell

#100. Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power; whether he is trapped by responsibility or made free by it; whether he is moved by other people and outer forces or moves them - this is of the essence of leadership.

Theodore White