Quotes About Accountability

Blowing up a few buildings is a lot better than an exploding planet, but people aren't very interested in simple arithmetic when there's blame to assign.

Be thankful when you made the right choices and admit it when you didn't.

But I say to you that for every idle word men may speak, they will give account of it in the Day of Judgment. For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned." – MATTHEW 12:36-37

Alas, for him who is gone and hath done no good work! The trumpet of march has sounded, and his load was not bound on.

If you've had the right kind of education, it's amazing how many things you can find to feel guilty about.

Great leaders not only treat people with respect and dignity, they hold others accountable for doing the same.

We all have to recognize—no matter how great our strength," Truman declared, "that we must deny ourselves the license to do always as we please.

We are a community of possibilities, not a community of problems. • Community exists for the sake of belonging and takes its identity from the gifts, generosity, and accountability of its citizens. It is not defined by its fears, its isolation, or its penchant for retribution. • We currently have all the capacity, expertise, programs, leaders, regulations, and wealth required to end unnecessary suffering and create an alternative future.

As an individual free to create the world we live in, I carry the cause for how my boss and others respond to and treat me. Once I understand this and stop trying to control them, I can get on with the business of acting on what matters.

What a sad account will many preachers have to give in the day of judgment, who have preached a free salvation to listening thousands, while their poor degraded slaves are deprived of many of the blessings of life, and privileges of civil and religious liberty! These preachers must and do know that slavery is at war with the attributes and perfections of God, who will never punish the innocent or let the guilty go free.

Lying was his brand. He was too bold to bother with accuracy and too visionary to be held accountable in small matters. Lies served as virtue signaling—the virtue of those who disdain experts, science, stability, and convention.

Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming individuals in important jobs.

Companies have three responsibilities: 1) make a profit, 2) satisfy employees, and 3) be socially responsible.

The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.

There is an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.

Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.

Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.

Lawyers had abolished the simple concept of right and wrong, turning it into degrees of guilt.

Chain of command was always a nominal concept in the division, you trusted people to do their job right.

Those who do not accept due process, who refuse to acknowledge the democratic mandate, are a cancer on society.

You are responsible to your political paymasters, and their eternal quest for the status quo.

This is the age of total digitalisation; everything is online always.' 'Uh huh, and that's why our politicians are pure and clean, and the world works so well, is it? Because everybody knows everything and there's no hiding place.

Keep my word' is such a strange expression. At first glance, it just means 'Be true to what you agreed on. But it could also mean, 'Hold your words back.' Keep them in. Let your actions speak instead.

This was a rule I had discovered about her. Confessing to minor violations could lead to a reword of a sort.