Quotes About Accountability

If you realize that you're the problem, then you can change yourself, learn something and grow wiser. Don't blame other people for your problems.

Stop blaming me, thinking I'm the problem. If you think I'm the problem, then you have to change me. If you realize that you're the problem, then you can change yourself, learn something and grow wiser. Most people want everyone else in the world to change themselves. Let me tell you, it's easier to change yourself than everyone else.

It wasn't who a person believed himself to be or what he pretended he would do in a given situation. It was what he did when he got there that defined him.

Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

He scolds the whole staff when one person is late for a meeting

believed it was better to assume the burden of leadership than to drift along in the shadows.

As he later explained to Monuments Man Bernie Taper over drinks in a Berlin apartment, 'There's one good things about being in the bomb disposal unit: No superior officer is ever looking over your shoulder.

Responsibility for learning belongs to the student, regardless of age.

You'd best change your point of view. Stop blaming me and thinking I'm the problem. If you think I'm the problem, then you have to change me. If you realize that you're the problem, then you can change yourself, learn something, and grow wiser. Most people want everyone else in the world to change but themselves. Let me tell you, it's easier to change yourself than everyone else.

When the power inherent in a position of authority is used to fortify that position, the institution's purpose is subverted. Behaviors are not aligned with the institution';s professed goals; rather they are skewed to preserve the rank, power, salaries, and security of rank-holders. -- Somebodies and Nobodies, by Robert W. Fuller

The only people who make any sense in the world are those who know that whatever happens to them has its roots in what they are.

First rule: If your dog doesn't do what you want, it's your fault.

The fate of Sir John French, who had failed in the previous September at Loos - but had not lost anything like so many men in the process - cannot have passed unnoticed by General Haig in the autumn of 1916.

Stop making excuses and just do it!

I've learned about leadership is that leaders are those individuals who do the things that failures aren't willing to do—even though they might not like doing them either. They have the discipline to do what they know to be important—and right—versus what's easy and fun.

If everyone would sweep their own doorstep, the whole world will be clean.

Victims recite problems. Leaders present solutions.

If everyone would sweep their own doorstep, the whole world will be clean.' 

Winston Churchill said that 'the price of greatness is responsibility over each of your thoughts.

leadership means taking personal responsibility for results. Leadership means you get things done. Leadership means you keep your promises.

blaming others is nothing more than excusing yourself.

Life's all about balance. And one of the most vital of all balance points is the one involving freedom and responsibility.

leaders are those individuals who do the things that failures aren't willing to do—even though they might not like doing them either. They have the discipline to do what they know to be important—and right—versus what's easy and fun.