Quotes About Accountability

As leaders, we are never responsible for filling anyone else's cup. Our responsibility is to empty ours. So

Leadership is not always about getting things done "right." Leadership is about getting things done through other people…When a leader can't find someone to hand things off to, it is time for him to look in the mirror. We must never forget that the people who follow us are exactly where we have led them.

In the critical arenas of life, you cannot make up for lost time. As

What are the two or three things that you and only you are responsible for? What, specifically, have you been hired to do? What is "success" for the person in your position? Now let's slice it even thinner. Of the two or three things that define success for you, which of those are in line with your giftedness? Of the tasks you have been assigned to do, which of them are you specifically gifted to do?

Christians start talking about forgiveness as if somehow forgiveness serves as an escape hatch from the outcome of bad decisions.

Leaders worth following are always careful. They are careful because they genuinely care for those who have chosen to follow. A leader who is careless will eventually be considered thoughtless by those who have entrusted their future to him.

As leaders, we are never responsible for filling anyone else's cup. Our responsibility is to empty ours.

If there's an area in your life where you tell yourself, "I know this is wrong, but I'm going to do it anyway, and probably repeat it," Solomon would answer, "In that area of your life, you're a fool." And

The best way to know if someone is prepared to commit is to examine his or her prior commitments. If you want to know how someone will behave tomorrow, take a look at what he or she did yesterday.

We should discipline with the goal of teaching our children the critical life skill of making things right with the people they've wronged.

As leaders, we are never responsible for filling anyone else's cup. Our responsibility is to empty ours.

If it suddenly became impossible for us to cover up all the junk we normally hide from the rest of humanity, I have a feeling we would all get real motivated to deal with the source of what ails us.

Después de haber comido entrambos doce nécoras, alguien dijo a Pilatos: -¿Y qué hacemos ahora? Él vaciló un instante y respondía (educado, distante, indiferente): -Chico, tú haz lo que quieras: Yo me lavo las manos.

Has de dejar de quejarte y de echarte la culpa a ti, al destino y a terceros. Has de tomar de una vez los hechos como tales y no como cambios infinitamente lamentables. Porque tan lamentables no son.

Tens una por terrible, i ho entenc, però hauries d'evitar justificar-te sempre darrere d'aquesta por.

I'm not somebody that just wants to hold up a white flag and say, 'Let's all just get along.' I think people that do horrible things should be held accountable.

They would all be sorry... particularly the duck.

The business of business should not just be about money, it should be about responsibility. It should be about public good, not private greed.

Don't count on God to make things happen, what if the God itself is counting on you.

I don't hate you. I hate what you've done and what it led to.

They were flawed and cruel, but there was no intent to kill. Not within the meaning of the law. And the law's all we have to hold things together.

Recovery isn't just about stopping drinking or giving up drugs; it's about taking responsibility. Not easy, if you've been running away from it all your life.

What good is it to know of a danger if you don't do anything about it? Maybe it's better not to know. Knowing can be a curse.

Now is the time for the U.S. and the nations of Western Europe who engaged in the slave trade throughout this hemisphere to come forward in a positive way to assist in undoing the harm that was caused by their past colonial policies in the hemisphere.