Responsibility equals accountability equals ownership. And a sense of ownership is the most powerful weapon a team or organization can have.
- Pat Summitt
The fidelity of a dog is a precious gift demanding no less binding moral responsibilities than the friendship of a human being.
- Konrad Lorenz
If you don't want responsibility, don't sit in the big chair. To be successful, you must accept full responsibility
Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Follow the three R's: - Respect for self. - Respect for others. - Responsibility for all your actions.
- Dalai Lama
The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond.
- Robert Baden-Powell
If we accept and acquiesce in the face of discrimination, we accept the responsibility ourselves. We should, therefore, protest openly everything ... that smacks of discrimination or slander.
- Mary McLeod Bethune
An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual.
There is a source of power in each of us that we don't realize until we take responsibility.
- Diane Nash
We've got a responsibility to live up to the legacy of those who came before us by doing all that we can to help those who come after us.
- Michelle Obama
Countrymen, the task ahead is great indeed, and heavy is the responsibility; and yet it is a noble and glorious challenge - a challenge which calls for the courage to dream, the courage to believe, the courage to dare, the courage to do, the courage to envision, the courage to fight, the courage to work, the courage to achieve - to achieve the highest excellencies and the fullest greatness of man. Dare we ask for more in life?
- Kwame Nkrumah
You cannot change any society unless you take responsibility for it, unless you see yourself as belonging to it and responsible for changing it.
- Grace Lee Boggs
Each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity.
- Marie Curie
Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.
- John F. Kennedy
Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life.
- William Blake
No responsibility of government is more fundamental than the responsibility of maintaining the highest standard of ethical behavior for those who conduct the public business.
The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.
- Richard Rohr
What comes to pass does so not so much because a few people want it to happen, as because the mass of citizens abdicate their responsibility and let things be.
- Antonio Gramsci
We must bear in mind that imperialism is a world system, the last stage of capitalism-and it must be defeated in a world confrontation. The strategic end of this struggle should be the destruction of imperialism. Our share, the responsibility of the exploited and underdeveloped of the world, is to eliminate the foundations of imperialism: our oppressed nations, from where they extract capital, raw materials, technicians, and cheap labor, and to which they export new capital-instruments of domination-arms and all kinds of articles, thus submerging us in an absolute dependence.
- Che Guevara
The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
- Wendell Berry
Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
- Jean-Paul Sartre
It's not my responsibility to be beautiful. I'm not alive for that purpose. My existence is not about how desirable you find me.
- Warsan Shire
Don't waste your time with people who will ultimately destroy you, but concentrate instead on those who will appreciate your responsibility to them, and, likewise, feel responsible to you.
- Anton Szandor LaVey
Nikah is a contract that transfers responsibilities. Therefore know the man you're thinking of marrying, and be sure that he is able to take care of you, more than your dad did. Islam empowers women with honor and dignity. Don't settle for anything less.
- Nouman Ali Khan
The leader sees leadership as responsibility rather than as rank and privilege.
- Peter Drucker
The function of freedom is to free someone else.
- Toni Morrison
When our interests and values are at stake, we have a responsibility to act.
- Barack Obama
You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for our own improvement, and at the same time share a genaral responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think can be most useful.
People must take a modicum of public responsibility for each other even if they have no ties to each other.
- Jane Jacobs
One of the recurring themes in Marcus' handbook is leadership's responsibility to work intelligently with what it is given and not waste time fantasizing about a world of flawless people and perfect choices.
- Marcus Aurelius
There is no power or authority without responsibility, and he who accepts the one cannot escape or evade the other.
- Haile Selassie
What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.
- William Golding
Education must be increasingly concerned about the fullest development of all children and youth, and it will be the responsibility of the schools to seek learning conditions which will enable each individual to reach the highest level of learning possible.
- Benjamin Bloom
Frederick Herzberg, asserts that the powerful motivator in our lives isn't money; it's the opportunity to learn, grow in responsibilities, contribute to others, and be recognized for achievements.
- Frederick Herzberg
What we say and what we do ultimately comes back to us so let us own our responsibility, place it in our hands, and carry it with dignity and strength.
- Gloria E. Anzaldúa
It is extremely rough to follow through with my goals, but I felt a responsibility to show the world what the African Americans are facing through this rough patch.
- Ida B. Wells
We hardly ever realize that we can cut anything out of our lives, anytime, in the blink of an eye.
- Carlos Castaneda
Bringing nature into the classroom can kindle a fascination and passion for the diversity of life on earth and can motivate a sense of responsibility to safeguard it.
- David Attenborough
Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, it’s unlikely you will step up and take responsibility for making it so. If you assume that there’s no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there’s a chance you may contribute to making a better world. The choice is yours.
- Noam Chomsky
Worry is assuming responsibilities that you cannot handle. They truth is, they are responsibilities that God never intended for you to handle, because they are His.
- Charles R. Swindoll
It’s time to put away our fairytales, all of them, and assume our responsibilities, the adult responsibilities that begin with adult knowledge. Our planet needs us. She needs us to think like healers and act like warriors. And if you think that’s a contradiction, then get out of the way.
- Lierre Keith
The only ethical decision is to take responsibility for our own existence and that of our children.
- Bill Mollison
The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own.
- Albert Ellis
Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.
- Richard P. Feynman
There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.
- J. K. Rowling
When someone really hears you without passing judgment on you, without trying to take responsibility for you, without trying to mold you, it feels damn good. . . . When I have been listened to and when I have been heard, I am able to re-perceive my world in a new way and to go on. It is astonishing how elements which seem insoluble become soluble when someone listens. How confusions which seem irremediable turn into relatively clear flowing streams when one is heard.
- Carl Rogers
You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life.
- Mary Oliver
The more knowledge, the more responsibility. The more love, the more ability.
- Edgar Cayce
The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.
- Stanley Milgram
Our highest endeavor must be to develop free human beings who are able of themselves to impart purpose and direction to their lives. The need for imagination, a sense of truth, and a feeling of responsibility—these three forces are the very nerve of education.
- Rudolf Steiner
