Quotes About Accountability

Leadership demands that we make tough choices.

How many millions there are who don't want to go to Hell, but they don't want to get off the road to Hell.

There are two kinds of people in the world: those who make excuses and those who get results. An excuse person will find any excuse for why a job was not done, and a results person will find any reason why it can be done. Be a creator, not a reactor

I think that lawyers are terrible at admitting that they're wrong. And not just admitting it also realizing it. Most lawyers are very successful, and they think that because they're making money and people think well of them, they must be doing everything right.

Words have a way of coming back to haunt us.

government regulation cannot substitute for individual integrity.

Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices. —Alfred A. Montapert

The bigger your job, the more negative evaluations you must hand out. And the more criticism you must be willing to absorb.

I have never, not once, violated my public trust.

When I go up there, which is my intention, the Big Judge will say to me, Where are your wounds? and if I say I haven't any, he will say, Was there nothing to fight for? I couldn't face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)

The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan.

You cannot take credit for your blessings, but you can certainly commit to not f---ing them up.

Your choices have more consequences than your impulses.

Both figuratively and literally, entitled people expect your signature on the front of the checks, and theirs on the back.

Always ask yourself, "Would I be proud of this if it appeared all over the Internet tomorrow?

Blame someone else and get on with your life.

A leader has to be a role model both in both political and personal life, so from the beginning, I was cautious about my image and I wanted to be incorruptible like my father.

If the NFL is going to be responsible for what someone is doing in their personal life, there may need to be preventative work early against the incidents that are happening.

If there is something that has worked for me or not worked for me in my personal life then it is because I was at fault somewhere and may be the other person was at fault.

White people are so fragile, God bless 'em. 'Well, I didn't own slaves.' No you didn't. Nobody is asking you to take personal responsibility for this. But you're a beneficiary of a system that did. Just own that and move on.

But there is a corollary to freedom and that's personal responsibility, and the real challenge is how you generate that personal responsibility without imposing it.

The people of America need personal responsibility and freedom, not dependency on the government.

Abortion, to me, is an issue of personal responsibility.

We sort of have given up on the idea of taking any sort of personal responsibility for what we see. I don't understand it at all. There are many things that I won't let my kids watch.