Quotes About Accountability

Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.

Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader.

Setting up a system that rewards you for meeting your goals and has penalties for failing to hit your target is just as important as putting your goals down on paper.

Do what you say you are going to do, when you say you are going to do it, in the way you said you were going to do it.

When you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear. When you do the right things in the right way you have nothing to lose because you have nothing to fear.

People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become, and they pay for it, very simply, by the lives they lead.

Meeting the deadlines is not good enough, beating the deadlines is my expectation.

Ah, how steadily do they who are guilty shrink from reproof!

Never let a day pass that you will have cause to say, I will do better tomorrow.

Every choice you make has an end result.

To those whom much is given, much is expected.

It may make a difference to all eternity whether we do right or wrong today.

When you make a mistake, there are only three things you should ever do about it: 1. Admit it. 2. Learn from it, and 3. Don't repeat it.

But until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday," that person cannot say, "I choose otherwise.

Whatever you do, don't ever use a crutch, and don't ever think of having an excuse for not having said, 'Yeah, I did my best.'

When you have a problem, if you tell the truth, the problem becomes part of your past. If you lie, it becomes part of your future.

A human being's first responsibility is to shake hands with himself.

If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do... HOW WOULD I BE? WHAT WOULD I DO?

Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.

Blame unto others only as you would first blame yourself.

Each snowflake in an avalanche pleads not guilty.

I just think we need more accountability and more transparency.

I'm not the manager because I'm always right, but I'm always right because I'm the manager.

Excuses cost a dime and that's why the poor could afford a lot of it.