Quotes About Accountability

we're responsible for our own lives.

We judge ourselves by our intentions and others by their actions

Anytime we think the problem is "out there," that thought is the problem. We empower what's out there to control us.

We are free to choose our actions, based on our knowledge of correct principles, but we are not free to choose the consequences of those actions. Remember, "If you pick up one end of the stick, you pick up the other.

Look at the weaknesses of others with compassion, not accusation. It's not what they're not doing or should be doing that's the issue. The issue is your own chosen response to the situation and what you should be doing. If you start to think the problem is "out there," stop yourself. That thought is the problem.

If our feelings control our actions, it is because we have abdicated our responsibility and empowered them to do so.

There's no way we can escape accountability. We do make a difference—one way or the other. We are responsible for the impact of our lives.

responsibility—"response-ability"—the ability to choose your response.

The key to growth is to learn to make promises and to keep them

Look at the word responsibility—"response-ability"—the ability to choose your response. Highly proactive people recognize that responsibility. They do not blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior.

The children of blame are cynicism and hopelessness.

While we do control our choice of action, we cannot control the consequences of our choices.

President N. Eldon Tanner has said, "Self-discipline is doing what you know you should do when you don't want to do it.

It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law.

you can't talk your way out of problems you behave yourself into." *

Look at the word responsibility—"response-ability"—the ability to choose your response. Highly proactive people recognize that responsibility. They do not blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior. Their behavior is a product of their own conscious choice, based on values, rather than a product of their conditions, based on feeling.

You can pretty well summarize the first three habits with the expression "make and keep a promise." And you can pretty well summarize the next three habits with the expression "involve others in the problem and work out the solution together.

Be Proactive. People are responsible for their own choices and have the freedom to choose based on principles and values rather than

If I make deposits into an Emotional Bank Account with you through courtesy, kindness, honesty, and keeping my commitments to you, I build up a reserve. Your trust toward me becomes higher, and I can call upon that trust many times if I need to.

While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of those actions. Consequences are governed by natural law. They are out in the Circle of Concern. We can decide to step in front of a fast-moving train, but we cannot decide what will happen when the train hits us.

Knowing that we are responsible—"response-able"—is fundamental to effectiveness and to every other habit of effectiveness we will discuss.

Nuestra conducta es una función de nuestras decisiones, no de nuestras condiciones. Podemos subordinar los sentimientos a los valores. Tenemos la iniciativa y la responsabilidad de hacer que las cosas sucedan.

Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions. We can subordinate feelings to values. We have the initiative and the responsibility to make things happen.

We are the instrument of our own performance