Quotes About Accountability

The more responsibility you take for your choices, the less regret they're likely to cause you.

Sins of omission should be regarded as far more serious than sins of commission,

First, by accepting that you choose your attitude, you demonstrate a level of personal accountability and proactivity

You can function just as long as your superiors have faith and confidence in you. When they lose it—your fault, other people's fault, whatever—then you have to leave and make room for the next guy. Your time at the plate is over.

Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it -- immediately.

Actions have consequences. Ignorance about the nature of those actions does not free a person from responsibility for the consequences. (28)

We all think we're retaliating," I say. "That's the nature of conflict. We all think our actions are justified by someone else's actions. But actually, we're responsible for what we do.

As someone who worked hard for a Labour victory in the 90s, do I regret it? Not really. It was bound to happen. And it'll happen with the next government, and the one after it. Because all governments serve us. They serve the filth.

First of all, I can't forget my first responsibility - which is to be the Leader of the Opposition and that's to provide an alternative government.

If ya let hornets rest in yer outhouse, it's hard t'get pissed when they buzz down and sting yer ass.

This isn't about your reputation. Our job right now is to make sure that there to ARE future historians.

We judge ourselves by our intentions and others by their behaviour.

Trust is equal parts character and competence... You can look at any leadership failure, and it's always a failure of one or the other.

we judge ourselves by our intentions and others by their behavior. This is why, as we'll discuss later, one of the fastest ways to restore trust is to make and keep commitments—even very small commitments—to ourselves and to others.

Whether you're on a sports team, in an office or a member of a family, if you can't trust one another there's going to be trouble.

Low trust causes friction, whether it is caused by unethical

Do not suppose that abuses are eliminated by destroying the object which is abused," he once wrote. "Men can go wrong with wine and women. Shall we then prohibit and abolish women?

But until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday," that person cannot say, "I choose otherwise.

We are free to choose our actions, . . . but we are not free to choose the consequences of these actions.

I respect my limitations, but I don't use them as an excuse.

Today the eyes of all people are truly upon us—and our governments, in every branch, at every level, national, state and local, must be as a city upon a hill—constructed and inhabited by men aware of their great trust and their great responsibilities.

You are essentially who you create yourself to be and all that occurs in your life is the result of your own making.

Don't live to be judged for what you haven't done. Live to be judged for what you have done.

We were all born equal, but where we are in life now is of our own making.