Quotes about Responsible Leadership

To manage is to decide the team, the substitutions, and everything until the end.

There's no longevity in managing - and not much sense, either.

DECISIVENESS SEPARATES GREAT LEADERS FROM DREAMERS AND TALKERS.

conducir es liderar, no es dar órdenes.

What the country needs is a plainspoken commitment by responsible leaders from both parties to address national needs together, accompanied by a general plan of action for doing so.

I pray to God that all leaders in all areas of life, lead with responsibility, accountability and respect at all times.

If you are called upon to govern humans, treat them humanely.

At the heart of every successful organization is a title-less person.

The people in charge, globally, are maniacs. They are maniacs, and unless we do something about it these people are going to deprive us of a future.

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

And so we shall have to do more than register and more than vote; we shall have to create leaders who embody virtues we can respect, who have moral and ethical principles we can applaud with enthusiasm.

And the men who hold high places must be the ones who start to mold a new reality closer to the heart.

It is not fit the public trusts should be lodged in the hands of any, till they are first proved and found fit for the business they are to be entrusted with.

But the person who can do this must be a leader; not only that, he must, in a very simple sense of the word, be a hero.

Countries are rarely governed by the ethical and good people.

The problem is, of course, that the functions of leadership are not well understood. Leaders, according to John Kotter of the Harvard Business School, function quite differently from managers. Leaders are responsible to provide vision, raise up other leaders, and create useful change. Managers, however, maintain the present system and seek to enhance it. Sadly, most church leaders are, in reality, managers.

As a leader, one must sometimes take actions that are unpopular, or whose results will not be known for years to come.

Fools multiply when wise men are silent.

That's other guys. I'm more of the beaten NCO who sighs and looks off toward wherever as you tell him the next problem he's got to jump all over before everything catches fire and we explode in every direction.

Authority is not delegating men, but procuring values.

Without courage, it doesn't matter how good the leader's intentions are.

To lead from the front you must get off your behind.

Power without abuse loses its charm.

Please let my lord go ahead of his servant. I will continue on slowly, at a comfortable pace for the livestock and children, until I come to my lord at Seir.”