Quotes About Accountability

The great escape of our times is escape from personal responsibility for the consequences of one's own behavior.

Bad decisions made with good intentions, are still bad decisions.

Procrastination also can be a way of self-handicapping: if you don't do a great job, you can always say to yourself, "If I'd only started sooner, I'd have been able to produce something excellent."

Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.

Great power involves great responsibility

My dad always said to me that with fame comes great responsibility, which has always stuck with me, even though I think he stole that line from Spiderman.

Whether one was going to have a horse, or a dog, or a child, with that comes a great responsibility to raise them.

If I expect great things from my people, they'll go to great lengths to keep from disappointing me.

I take great responsibility in any character that I play.

At the end of the day it's really easy to be a great leader when things are going well. The real test, whether or not you believe in being an emotionally intelligent leader, is when things go wrong.

If President Bush does a lousy job, then he'll lose power. If the guy at McDonalds who's selling burgers does a great job, then he'll be much more powerful than President Bush.

People say, 'Jay, you're a great guy, you just had a couple of bad nights.' People that have themselves under control don't have a couple of bad nights like that. Plain and simple.

No one was responsible for the great Wall Street crash. No one engineered the speculation that preceded it. Both were the product of free choice and decision of hundreds of thousands of individuals.

The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.

You must come to terms with the reality that nothing outside ourselves, be it people or things is actually responsible for our happiness.

Only you can take responsibility for your happiness..but you can't do it alone. It's the great paradox of being human.

Making someone responsible for your misery also makes them responsible for your happiness. Why give that power to anyone but yourself?

Only you are responsible for your life and for your life and making it a happy life

Hillary Clinton talks about health care. Why didn't she do something about it? She talks about taxes. Why didn't she do something about it? She doesn't do anything about anything other than talk.

At the end of the day, your health is your responsibility.

If you want something done right, you have to do it yourself. This especially includes your health care.

You have to track every single thing you eat if you want to keep posting big numbers on the scale each week.

If you can't take responsibility for your own well-being, you will never take control over it.

There is an intentional disregard for human health and safety in many government agencies that are tasked with protecting it.