Quotes About Accountability

Let your deeds be judged, and from your deeds your real intentions, but know that a free person owes an explanation only to himself—to his reason and his conscience—and to the few who may have a justified claim for explanation.

A free person owes an explanation only to himself, to his reason and his conscious, and to the few who may have a justified claim for explanation.

parents can take neither all of the blame nor all of the glory for how their offspring turn out. In the end, she said, all of us must take responsibility for ourselves.

The case for doing what one sees as one's duty must be strong, but how can we be indifferent to the consequences that may follow from our doing what we take to be our just duty?

Contrary to popular belief, there most certainly is an "I" in "team." It is the same "I" that appears three times in "responsibility."

We publicized it. We capitalized on it. We exploited it for ratings or whatever, for stories, with our memes and GIFs and tweeting and all that. We jump on the train. We show their pictures on live TV. We make clever hashtags. We find ways to, like, absolve ourselves from responsibility or say we've helped out with a retweet or something. We've helped because we've mentioned an injustice in passing to our neighbor and we both got to shake our heads.

To apologize is to lay the foundation for a future offense.

Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.

Your present is responsible for each and every minute of your past and future

Your present is responsible of each and every minute of your past and future

No one can make you a victim but yourself.

Man has responsiblity, not power. Tuscarora

Eggs cannot be unscrambled.

N'est-ce pas la vertu première du nationalisme que de trouver un coupable plutôt qu'une solution ?

If with evil You punish the evil I have done Pray tell, what is the difference between You and me?

Yöneticilerin en kötüsü seni sopalayan deÄŸil, seni kendi kendini sopalamaya zorlayand?r.

Un homme sage s'estime responsable de ses actes et de leurs conséquences ; un homme dénué de sagesse ne se sent responsable que de ses intentions.

Complaining is a form of taking.

God says to us "Some things won't get done unless you do them.

I'm not my brother's keeper" is the lie infecting our streets and our neighborhoods (Genesis 4:9). This lie alienates us from God and one another.

my mother must have said to me a hundred times that men needed to be handled right and a woman who couldn't handle her man had only herself to blame.

High standards in a context where there is uncertainty or interdependence (or both) combined with a lack of psychological safety comprise a recipe for suboptimal performance.

Many managers confuse setting high standards with good management.

Cheating and covering up are natural by-products of a top-down culture that does not accept "no" or "it can't be done" for an answer. But combining this culture with a belief that a brilliant strategy formulated in the past will hold indefinitely into the future becomes a certain recipe for failure.