Quotes About Accountability

I then took him to beyond the death experience and had him look back at the entire life, and see what the lesson was. Dan: To do something. To make the most of any situation that you've created. People are going to be what they're going to be. And it's up to you to be what you're going to be. So you can take responsibility for yourself, or you can never do anything. And that gets you nowhere. Which is worse, not accomplishing anything when you know you can.

How do you wake up? It was one thing to know that you had been asleep all your life, but something else to wake up from it, to find out you were really alive and it wasn't anybody's fault but your own. Of course that was the problem.

Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.

I have had many occasions this year where I questioned and second-guessed my decision in a game, but it comes down to learning from mistakes and being accountable for what you did right or did wrong.

J. D. set his phone down and looked over at her. "You know, we really put Bobby on the spot in there today." "Well, he's

Why do Uber drivers get rated on customer satisfaction but corporate executives get a pass?

Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.

Their only weapon is shame, if the powerful can even feel it.

So you got Black Lives Matter up your ass, every citizen a journalist with a cell-phone camera at the ready, and you go to work each day with the whole world thinking you're a murdering racist. Okay

At least, at last, tell yourself the truth. You know exactly how you got here. Step by motherfucking step. Our ends know our beginnings but the reverse isn't true.

would have' is just another way of saying 'didn't.

Decentralized control is based on trust. This trust must be present both hierarchically and laterally. Subordinates must trust their superiors, and superiors must trust their subordinates.

I'm not responsible for what other people think, only for what I am.

Canadians believe that MPs do a better job pursuing the interest of their political parties than of those they represent,

They fall short on holding the government to account, scrutinizing and authorizing the spending of public money, reviewing and refining legislation, and acting as an effective forum to debate the important issues of the day.

government should be good at, relative to the private sector – namely, equality, efficiency, merit, fairness and justice.

If the government is no longer as good as it once was in providing clear answers, the courts are now there to do so.

I discovered, for the first time but not the last, that politicians don't care too much what things cost. It's not their money.

Regardless of how far a person runs, a lie will eventually catch up to them.

Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

How easy it is to blame others for our unhappiness, but we are only unhappy when something other than Christ has become our life.

You are personally responsible for everything in your life, once you become aware that you are personally responsible for everything in your life.

We each begin in innocence. We all become guilty.

If you blame others for something that happens in your life, then you must wait until they change in order to get better.