Quotes About Accountability

To fight against pride, it is wise to surround ourselves with those who know us and love us enough to speak into our lives with words of correction and rebuke.

To begin by always thinking of love as an action rather than a feeling is one way in which anyone using the word in this manner automatically assumes accountability and responsibility.

The world we live in will be either better or worse depending on whether we become better or worse.

Some say we are responsible for those we love. Others know we are responsible for those who love us.

There's a lot of things blamed on me that never happened. But then, there's a lot of things that I did that I never got caught at.

Every act has a consequence. In my view the world divides into people who can see that, and make a decision accordingly, and those who just go for what feels good at the time.

Every act has a consequence, Ellie. In my view the world divides into people who can see that, and make a decision accordingly, and those who just go for what feels good at the time.

How many of the decisions you make each day are because you actually want to do something, and how many are to avoid the consequences of not doing it?

I am apparently not very good at looking after things.

Some mistakes just have greater consequences than others.

Words without deeds violates the moral and legal obligation we have under the genocide convention but, more importantly, violates our sense of right and wrong and the standards we have as human beings about looking to care for one another.

one person can't make a team, but one person can break a team.

Rule #1 You're the Driver of Your Bus.

As a leader, it is so important that your words equal your actions. It is imperative that you make sure that you go through a self-evaluation process on an almost daily basis to make sure that your actions are in line with your words. You must do what you say and say what you do.

It is the culture you create that is going to determine whether your players perform and execute.

Dogs are blameless, devoid of calculation, neither blessed nor cursed with human motives. They can't really be held responsible for what they do. But we can." --from The Dogs of Bedlam Farm

Learning what really makes a dog like him tick had forced me to grasp more about what made me tick. I often didn't like what I saw in me, but I was determined to do right by him. Which meant, as Carolyn had suggested, that I had to be better. Orson, like all my dogs, was a measure, a barometer, a mirror of me.

Real leadership means tackling tough problems ourselves and not leaving them to our children.

I have always held in high regard individuals who informed me that certain behavior or policies were inappropriate. I respect candor. My door is always open for news—good or bad. Many leaders only want to hear the positive. It is dangerous to be employed by such people. Those who never want to hear bad news don't want to know when they are off course.

I am writing now not because past American presidents have always risen to the occasion but because the incumbent American president so rarely does.

The snowflake never needs to feel responsible for the avalanche.

News used to hold itself to a higher plane, and slowly it has dissolved into, well, me.

The American Revolution was a successful revolution precisely because it was grounded in both realism and idealism. Written deep into the structure of our Constitution is a profound comfort with contradiction. It sets faction against faction, pits each branch of government against the other, dilutes the excesses of democracy, and holds the executive accountable to the people. By being so grounded in realism, it can hold the weight of our ideals.

There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it. Here