Quotes About Accountability

We are responsible for our own effectiveness, for our own happiness, and ultimately, I would say, for most of our circumstances.

When we pick up one end of the stick, we pick up the other.

Whenever someone in our family, even one of the younger children, takes an irresponsible position and waits for someone else to make things happen or provide a solution, we tell them, "Use your R and I!" (resourcefulness and initiative).

Anytime we think the problem is "out there," that thought is the problem.

It simply makes no difference how good the rhetoric is or even how good the intentions are; if there is little or no trust, there is no foundation for permanent success.

You always reap what you sow; there is no shortcut.

what we sow, we must inevitably reap.

Unclear expectations in the area of goals also undermine communication and trust.

Here are some examples of where you might be paying Trust Taxes or earning Trust Dividends:

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

proactive people have a Circle of Concern that is at least as big as their Circle of Influence, accepting the responsibility to use their influence effectively.

The deposit is to make the expectations clear and explicit in the beginning.

as human beings, we are responsible for our own lives. Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions.

Taking initiative does not mean being pushy, obnoxious, or aggressive. It does mean recognizing our responsibility to make things happen.

Holding people to the responsible course is not demeaning; it is affirming.

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.

Nurture Independent Will by Making and Keeping Promises One of the best ways to strengthen our independent will is to make and keep promises. Each time we do, we make deposits in our Personal Integrity Account.

Our meaning comes from within. Again, in the words of Frankl, "Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize that it is he who is asked. In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.

That language comes from a basic paradigm of determinism. And the whole spirit of it is the transfer of responsibility. I am not responsible, not able to choose my response.

Si uno quiere tener más libertad, más margen en el trabajo, debe ser un empleado más responsable, más útil, más colaborador.

But we are responsible—"response-able"—to control our lives and to powerfully influence our circumstances by working on be, on what we are.

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.

Is there a chance the way I look at the people who work for me is part of the problem?

Stewardship delegation is focused on results instead of methods.