Quotes About Accountability

Leadership sometimes demands more than verbiage. It requires visible acts.

What we think or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do.

The discipline process is simply, 'Here is our standard and here is your performance. We've got a gap. As your leader, I am here to understand the reasons for the gap and help you to raise your game. If the gap does not go away, I will have to escalate.

What was the right thing to do? Was that the best you were capable of doing? Would you want to be treated the same way if the situation were reversed?

A power structure that is accountable only to itself will always end by abusing the powerless. If exposed, it will ask, paternalistically, to be allowed to repair the damage on its own.

Not satisfied with endlessly pulling drowning men from the torrents rushing past, Day went upstream to see who was throwing the poor bastards into the water in the first place—and

The only thing more dangerous than a politician who thinks about re-election, is a politician who doesn't think about re-election.

I never trust an executive who tends to pass the buck. Nor would I want to deal with him as a customer or a supplier.

Responsibilities are given to him on whom trust rests. Responsibility is always a sign of trust.

If I am at the same place, I was last year in regards to self-improvement, goals etc. I will take my own self back behind the wood shed and have a come to Jesus session as that is just unacceptable period!

We do not live in a zoo so we will not act like it as a neighborhood, in order to be a great neighborhood each of us needs to do our part and start acting like it

I think practice what you preach is a half-baked cop out as you need to do more than practice as only when you do will you have the right to preach it

If you cannot harness the discipline needed to take control over your own life then you deserve everything that happens in your life and you forfeit the right to cry, complain and make excuses for why you are not where you want to be, have what you feel you should have and be who you want to be. As if you cannot work hard to improve yourself and your life what makes you think anyone will want to come be a part of your life if you don't care why should they

A Savvy Turtle investor trains their occupants to do everything from paying rent on time, upkeep, scheduled maintenance, self-betterment etc

When U.S. prisoners were killed, it was "murder in flagrant disregard of the Geneva Conventions." But when Americans murdered Others, "they had it coming to them.

Why not pay prime ministers and presidents even a tiny share of the gain that their policies promote?

It's kind of hard to ask a dead guy what he did wrong.

It was you and me, Tom. We did this to them. To us.

What did we do differently?" "I don't know. It's kind of hard to ask a dead guy what he did wrong.

It's kind of hard to ask a dead guy what he did wrong. (Minho from The Maze Runner)

If you really did help design the Maze, Tommy, it's not your fault. You're a kid—you can't help what they forced you to do.

How do we always get into these messes?" Minho asked. "At least we used to be able to blame everything on WICKED." "Yeah, well, we still can." Thomas murmured. Minho grinned. "Good. Those shuck-faces.

James Dashner The Death Cure

I think the one thing this picture shows that's new is the psychological disproportion of the kids' demands on the parents. Parents are often at fault, but the kids have some work to do, too.