Quotes About Accountability

Tell me I have to be somewhere, and I'll be there 20 minutes early and stay there longer than anybody else. You hold up a lot of people if you're not on time.

Time affords us the ability to blame past errors on others while whole heartedly pronouncing our futures successes.

The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.

But you've got to make choices, and you're not going to be right all the time.

We empower ourselves every time we accept responsibility for choosing the thoughts and feelings we act on.

A good boss asks what part she could have played in the problem. And then she asks herself what she can do better next time.

Every time we give our word, it counts. For the most part, people give their word entirely too often. Our word is a precious commodity and should be treated as such.

Our culture is at a critical cusp - a time that requires that we define what it means to be a citizen in a democracy. Within our nation we need to foster a greater sense of collective responsibility.

I think [food producers] should appreciate that we're only targeting their property. Because frankly I think it's time to start targeting them.

We cannot defer this responsibility to posterity. Time will not wait.

To be early is to be on time, to be on time is to be late, to be late is to be forgotten.

An incompetent teacher is even worse than an incompetent surgeon because a surgeon can only cut up one person at a time.

We are being watched. It's now time for us to watch the watchers.

Please don't ask me to do that which I've just said I'm not going to do, because you're burning up time. The meter is running through the sand on you, and I am now filibustering.

Every time someone dies as a result of floods in Bangladesh, an airline executive should be dragged out of his office and drowned.

For every time she shouted "Fire!" They only answered "Little liar!" And therefore when her aunt returned, Matilda, and the house, were burned.

If you don't have public hangings for bad culture in a company, if you don't take people out and let them say, they went home to spend more time with the family. It's crazy.

In the highest government office, you have to be ready to bow out at any time, otherwise you are not a free individual anymore.

Leaders are made one response at a time.

They say that at that moment you didn't do this, you didn't do that, but at that time I didn't have the means. I didn't have an army to stop the killings. I'm not Moses, I can't do miracles.

If you want anything done right you will have to see to it yourself every time.

I'm fully aware that every time I do anything, good or bad, somebody's watching.

Let's put it this way: I did not get in trouble every time I drank, but every time I got in trouble, I'd been drinking

The world needs someone to look up to-like you. A national leader remarked, "There comes a time when we must take a stand-when we draw a line in the dust and say, 'Beyond this line, we do not go.'"