John C. Maxwell Quotes About Responsibility

Quotes about: Responsibility

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  The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up.

  John C. Maxwell

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Growing Up

  John C. Maxwell (2010). “Maxwell 2in1 (Developing the Leader w/in You/Developing Leaders Around You)”, p.103, Harper Collins

• Leadership is taking responsibility while others are making excuses.

  John C. Maxwell

  Responsibility, Excuse, Taking Responsibility

  John C. Maxwell (2015). “The Leadership Handbook: 26 Critical Lessons Every Leader Needs”, p.10, Thomas Nelson Inc

• A leader can give up anything - except final responsibility.

  John C. Maxwell

  Giving Up, Responsibility, Leader

  John C. Maxwell (2007). “The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader: Becoming the Person Others Will Want to Follow”, p.69, Thomas Nelson Inc

• 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.

  John C. Maxwell

  Mistake, Moving, Responsibility

  John C. Maxwell (2007). “Leadership Promises for Your Week”, p.88, Thomas Nelson Inc

• 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.

  John C. Maxwell

  Dream, Responsibility, Benefits

  John C. Maxwell (2011). “Put Your Dream to the Test: 10 Questions that Will Help You See It and Seize It”, p.20, Thomas Nelson Inc

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

  John C. Maxwell

  Responsibility, Our Words, Lines

• 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

  Leadership, Passion, Responsibility

• 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

  Responsibility, Leader, Get Better

  John C. Maxwell (2010). “The Right to Lead: Learning Leadership Through Character and Courage”, p.113, Thomas Nelson Inc

• 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.

  John C. Maxwell

  Sleep, Responsibility, Differences

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

  John C. Maxwell

  Responsibility, Mature, Sense Of Responsibility

• 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.

  John C. Maxwell

  Team, Responsibility, Hands

• Leadership is not a right-it is a responsibility.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, Responsibility

• Realizing your potential as a leader is your responsibility.

  John C. Maxwell

  Responsibility, Leader, Realizing

  John C. Maxwell (2010). “A Leader's Heart: 365-Day Devotional Journal”, p.233, Thomas Nelson Inc

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

  John C. Maxwell

  Responsibility, Leader, Burden

• 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.

  John C. Maxwell

  Responsibility, Numbers, Discipline

• Leadership, like responsibility, is a voluntary act.

  John C. Maxwell

  Responsibility

  John C. Maxwell (2010). “The Right to Lead: Learning Leadership Through Character and Courage”, p.35, Thomas Nelson Inc

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

  John C. Maxwell

  Responsibility, Easy, Persons

  John C. Maxwell (2007). “There's No Such Thing as "Business" Ethics: There's Only One Rule for Making Decisions”, p.43, Hachette UK

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

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, Responsibility, Being Positive

  John C. Maxwell (2006). “The 17 Essential Qualities of a Team Player: Becoming the Kind of Person Every Team Wants”, p.75, Thomas Nelson Inc

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

  John C. Maxwell

  Responsibility, Important, Ability

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