Quotes About Accountability

The mature person meets the demands of life, while the immature person demands that life meet her demands.

Every damn fool thing you do in this life you pay for.

A minister of state is excusable for the harm he does when the helm of government has forced his hand in a storm; but in the calm he is guilty of all the good he does not do.

The idea that God is a worthy recipient of our gratitude for the blessings of life but should not be held accountable for the disasters is a transparently disingenuous innovation of the theologians.

Nobody else can destroy you except you; nobody else can save you except you. You are the Judas and you are the Jesus.

Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.

Life give to you what you gave to it. So give your best.

Both the Star Wars and Friday the Thirteenth franchises have much to answer for.

No man is above justice," George Mason preached at the Constitutional Convention in 1787. That sentiment still rings true, yet competes with the political reality offered by then-representative Gerald Ford, who quipped in 1970 that "an impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history.

only a fool blames the messenger.

Pastors are leaders, but they are to be a part of a plurality of elders that submit to each other and are held in check by the congregation. It is not wise for any one leader, apart from Christ Jesus, to be without accountability.

No sólo la vida de la iglesia es un medio de santificación debido a que la Palabra de Dios es continuamente predicada y aplicada a la vida de los miembros, sino también porque la iglesia es un medio de rendición de cuentas y protección.

Rules are in every company for everyone to follow. Eh, except salespeople." -- Jeffrey Gitomer

Every team member has the responsibility to stop the line every time they see something that is out of standard. That's how we put the responsibility for quality in the hands of our team members.

Ownership means once I detect a problem I own it. I am responsible for it.

If you are responsible for a problem and make recommendations on possible solutions, you might be asked whether you went and looked at the situation yourself in person.

Rather, companies improve their quality by defining what the idea means in terms of specific operational measures, then routinely and frequently assessing those aspects of performance, sharing the outcomes with everyone (often in graphical form), and holding people accountable for improving the measures that are under their control. When

SAS Institute, where the cofounder and CEO Jim Goodnight evaluates managers by their ability to attract and retain talent, and where people can lose their jobs if their units experience excessive voluntary turnover.

like the BMW mechanic who handed Robert Sutton a survey and pleaded for a five on a five-point scale, because otherwise he would get in trouble).

Please, never say: 'Who does it hurt? Why not a little freedom? I can transgress now and repent later.' Please don't be so foolish and so cruel. You cannot with impunity 'crucify Christ afresh.

To pass the buck to their constituents, as so many Republican senators did, was to shirk their constitutionally mandated duty. This

Trump finally had what he had wanted all along—an attorney general who put Trump's personal political well-being ahead of the national interest, the traditions of the Justice Department, and the rule of law.

People and institutions that refuse to admit error eventually discredit themselves.

When the state itself is held to the same moral standards as everyone else, it dies. And that's a wonderful thing.