Quotes About Accountability

Guilt is hard to live with, but it exists to help us put things right while we still have the chance.

a man who has the strength of character to leave off when he has only ruined others, is a reformed character.

There would be fewer problems and crimes in the world if people tell the truth even if the truth hurt.

Everybody wants to eat at the government's table, but nobody wants to do the dishes.

Good men are bound by conscience and liberated by accountability.

Dignity is the reward of holding oneself accountable to conscience

Don't tell me I'm responsible for my thirst when you keep all the water.

Self-esteem does not judge conscience because it is not responsible for right and wrong."

By their own actions, not their words, do leaders establish the morale, integrity and sense of justice of their subordinate commanders. They cannot say one thing and do another.

The consequence for not adequately training your Huns is their failure to accomplish that which is expected of them.

That's why I'll never run for office. Because you have to be too clean. I am not clean. I've had a lot of mud. Forget the skeletons, I've got the mud. And, know what? I don't want to have to explain me to anybody.

Wie wunderbar ist es, dass kein Mensch seine Schuld öffentlich zeigen muss. Wie entsetzlich ist es, dass jeder Mensch seine Schuld in seinem Inneren jeden Tag anschauen muss.

Hitler'cilerin milyonlarca in?am öldürmelerinden sonra, kalkm?? onlar? as?yorsun. Milyonlar? öldürmelerinden önce neredeydin peki, o vakit ne dü?ünüyordun? Düzinelerle ceset oturup dü?ünmen için yeterli neden de?il miydi? ?nsanl???n?n k?p?rdanmas? için milyonlarca ceset mi gerekliydi?

Organizations that take the word of overconfident experts can expect costly consequences.

individuals feel relieved of responsibility when they know that others have heard the same request for help.

All too often a company afflicted by sunk costs drives into the blizzard, throwing good money after bad rather than accepting the humiliation of closing the account of a costly failure.

Tetlock also found that experts resisted admitting that they had been wrong, and when they were compelled to admit error, they had a large collection of excuses: they had been wrong only in their timing, an unforeseeable event had intervened, or they had been wrong but for the right reasons.

Hindsight is especially unkind to decision makers who act as agents for others—physicians, financial advisers, third-base coaches, CEOs, social workers, diplomats, politicians. We are prone to blame decision makers for good decisions that worked out badly and to give them too little credit for successful moves that appear obvious only after the fact. There is a clear outcome bias. When

In such cases, the greatest responsibility for avoiding the planning fallacy lies with the decision makers who approve the plan. If they do not recognize the need for an outside view, they commit a planning fallacy.

If you want to deter misconduct, you should tolerate some noise.

You want to balance the budget in this country? We change the salary structure for Congress and the President. Every year they don't balance the budget, we don't pay them.

If a person did not have free will, how could he be held accountable for the bad things he did?

But the main reason we keep ducking the responsibility of self-creation is that it is super scary. If I am the master of my fate and my fate does not turn out so well, I have no one to blame but myself.

Promise less than you deliver