Quotes About Accountability

We judge ourselves by our good intentions, but we're judged by our last word.

The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.

Be careful not to do your good deeds when there's no one watching you.

Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior.

I believe in a higher power and I believe in good and bad, right and wrong. You sleep in the bed you make.

I can't get myself when I'm not punctual. If I'm late for an appointment, even a bit, I don't feel good for a whole day.

If an investigative reporter finds out that someone has been robbing the store, that may be 'gotcha' journalism, but it's also good journalism.

Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.

Young people in the business have grown up and made the wrong decisions, or bad decisions, and haven't been good role models. To be someone that people look up to is important to me.

I did mostly good things, except light things on fire.

I have never seen a good organization where the standards weren't high.

A good banker isn't careless with pennies; a good leader isn't sloppy about details.

I know I'm a good professional, I know that no one's harder on me than myself and that's never going to change, under any circumstances.

Good intentions aren't enough. People have good intentions when they set a goal to do something, but then they miss a deadline or other milestone.

There will be no good business unless the majority comes to agree that we should demand more from business than large quarterly returns.

It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for.

There never is a good time for tough decisions. There will always be an election or something else. You have to pick courage and do it. Governance is about taking tough, even unpopular, decisions.

We have a choice every day — to act on yesterday's good intentions or get an early start on tomorrow's regrets.

A good leader encourages followers to tell him what he needs to know, not what he wants to hear.

Good government only happens when the people working in it do their jobs, and do them well.

If people know we expect good things from them, they will in most cases go to great lengths to live up to our expectations.

Good Christian people, here lies for you an inestimable loan; take all heed thereof, in all carefulness, employ it: with high recompense, or else with heavy penalty, will it one day be required back.

When I'm decisive, I feel I do a good job.

The demands that good people make are upon themselves; Those that bad people make are upon others.