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Courage And Responsibility Quotes About Leadership

The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Winston Churchill

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.
John C. Maxwell

The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.
Ronald Reagan

Leadership is not about being in charge. It's about taking care of those in your charge.
Simon Sinek

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Martin Luther King Jr.

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
Warren Bennis

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
Ralph Nader

Leadership is not about being fearless, it's about taking action despite your fears.
Unknown

The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are.
John C. Maxwell

Courage And Responsibility Quotes About Accountability

With great power comes great responsibility.
Voltaire

Accountability breeds response-ability.
Stephen Covey

It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one's acts.
Mahatma Gandhi

The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don't wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.
Barack Obama

The time is always right to do what is right.
Martin Luther King Jr.

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Nelson Mandela

It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable.
Moliere

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.
Steve Jobs

Courage And Responsibility Quotes About Standing Up For What's Right

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke

The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better.
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
Mahatma Gandhi

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Martin Luther King Jr.

The only way to deal with fear is to face it head-on.
Bear Grylls

Courage And Responsibility Quotes About Owning Your Mistakes

Mistakes are always forgivable if one has the courage to admit them.
Bruce Lee

It takes courage to admit one's mistakes, but it takes greater courage to rectify them.
Confucius

The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.
Theodore Roosevelt

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
Joan Didion

The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to blame others for your failures.
Brian Tracy

The only true test of leadership is how well you function in a crisis.
Brian Tracy

Courage And Responsibility Quotes About Being A Role Model

A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others.
Douglas MacArthur

A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.
Arnold H. Glasow

The best way to predict your future is to create it.
Abraham Lincoln

Courage And Responsibility Quotes About Being Honest

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson

Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.
William Shakespeare

The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.
Gloria Steinem

Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth-telling, truth-speaking, truth-living, and truth-loving.
James E. Faust

Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
Mary Kay Ash

Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.
Josh Billings

Honesty is the fastest way to prevent a mistake from turning into a failure.
James Altucher

Honesty is the best image.
Tom Wilson

Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product.
Ed McMahon

Honesty is the foundation of all human connection. Without it, trust is impossible, and trust is the foundation of all relationships.
Stephen Covey

Courage And Responsibility Quotes About Being Resilient

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.
Maya Angelou

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas Edison

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
Confucius

The best way out is always through.
Robert Frost

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
Jimmy Dean

Courage And Responsibility Quotes About Being Proactive

If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
J.M. Power

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
Woodrow Wilson

Courage And Responsibility Quotes About Taking Action

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
Steve Jobs

The future depends on what you do today.
Mahatma Gandhi

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
E.E. Cummings

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Winston Churchill

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
Wayne Gretzky

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Believe you can and you're halfway there.
Theodore Roosevelt

The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Peter Drucker

Courage And Responsibility Quotes About Facing Challenges

You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.
Mary Tyler Moore

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Courage And Responsibility Quotes About Making Tough Decisions

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
J.K. Rowling

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
Theodore Roosevelt

You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
William Faulkner

I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear.
Rosa Parks

Courage And Responsibility Quotes About Being Trustworthy

The glue that holds all relationships together -- including the relationship between the leader and the led -- is trust, and trust is based on integrity.
Brian Tracy

Trust is earned when actions meet words.
Chris Butler

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
Ernest Hemingway

Trust is the highest form of human motivation. It brings out the very best in people.
Stephen Covey

Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.
Warren Bennis

Trust is the foundation of all human connections, from chance encounters to friendships and intimate relationships.
Stephen Covey

Trust is the highest compliment you can pay a person.
Dale Carnegie

Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.
Stephen Covey

Trust is the fruit of a relationship in which you know you are loved.
William Paul Young

Trust is the first step to love.
Munshi Premchand

Courage And Responsibility Quotes About Being Self-Disciplined

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
Jim Rohn

With self-discipline most anything is possible.
Theodore Roosevelt

Discipline is the foundation upon which all success is built. Lack of discipline inevitably leads to failure.
Jim Rohn

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.
George Washington

Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability.
Roy L. Smith

Discipline is the key to success. The key to self-discipline is doing the things you know you need to do, even if you don't feel like doing them.
Unknown

Discipline is the bridge between thought and accomplishment.
Unknown

Discipline is the foundation of a successful and happy life.
Unknown

Discipline is the difference between what you want now and what you want most.
Unknown

Discipline is the ability to do what needs to be done, even when you don't want to do it.
Unknown

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