John C. Maxwell Responsibility Quotations

Leadership is taking responsibility while others are making excuses.

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

Leadership is not a right-it is a responsibility.

A leader can give up anything - except final responsibility.

We have many years to eat and sleep, but how many years do we have to make a difference in the lives of others? That's the highest calling any of us can have: Living our life so as to intentionally add value to others. But to do this, we have to make ourselves more valuable. We have to keep learning, growing, developing as leaders and taking responsibility for being the change we want to see in the world.

The ultimate step in taking responsibility is making sure our actions line up with our words.

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.

God has put a dream inside you. It's yours, and no one else's. It declares your uniqueness. It holds your potential. Only you can birth it. Only you can live it. Not to discover it, take responsibility for it, and act upon it is to negatively affect yourself as well as all those who would benefit from your dream.

Leadership, like responsibility, is a voluntary act.

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.

Realizing your potential as a leader is your responsibility.

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

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

Team leaders have to connect with their team and themselves. If they don't know their team's strengths and weaknesses, they cannot hand off responsibilities to the team. And if they don't know their own strengths and weaknesses, they will not hand off responsibilities to the team.

People who blame others for their failures never overcome them. They simply move from problem to problem. To reach your potential, you must continually improve yourself, and you can't do that if you don't take responsibility for your actions and learn from your mistakes.

A person of responsibility can trust himself to choose the right thing over the easy thing.

All great leaders have understood that their number one responsibility is cultivating their own discipline and personal growth. Those who cannot lead themselves cannot lead others.

Responsibility is the most important ability that a person can possess.