Quotes About Accountability

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.

At the end of the day, let there be no excuses, no explanations, no regrets."

Maybe they should take a closer look at the people they elect.

When executives ask for an "estimate," they're often asking for a commitment or for a plan to meet a target.

The "contempt of cops" by those in their chain of command creates Toxic Boss Blues.

Responsibility and self-discipline give you the freedom to be more spontaneous because you won't risk abusing your freedom.

Before he even arrived, he sent each top police official a framed, hand-embroidered motto: Police Unto Others As You Would Have Them Police Unto You. What did that mean? Don't arrest anybody because you wouldn't like to be arrested?

To a little girl I never met who caused so many to reflect within themselves; and to those cops and prosecutors across the country who do the right thing: day in, day out.

the leader should reserve to himself the hiring, compensating, motivating, molding, assessing and firing of his chief lieutenants.

When you've burned the bridges behind you, don't go starting a fire on the one in front of you.

Is there anything more worthless than excuses? -Emperor Kellanved

The gods have been kicking us around for a long time. When do we say enough?' 'And in their absence, High Fist, will we manage things any better?' 'No,' Paran said, walking past him 'but at least then we won't have the option of blaming someone else.

Fear bespeaks of wisdom. Recognition of responsibility.

One mentor I had taught me that people do what you inspect, not necessarily what you expect. In other words, if nobody is watching, there will be some slack off.

You know I don't really have faith in politicians - this is quite a sleazy business. But there is no law which says that all politicians will turn out to be scumbags.

I wonder how Colin Powell sleeps at night. I would like to have a word with him because he lied. He lied. He lied to me. He lied to my face through the camera at the U.N.

When the law says you're entitled to an attorney, it doesn't mean you're entitled to an attorney who sleeps or an attorney who doesn't do his job.

I've slept with a couple of people and made some poor choices and put things in jeopardy with... what I was happy with, and that's my own fault. I've got no one else to blame about that stuff.

Every time you go out, you want to help your team, play your best and don't let any opportunities slide by.

I am very hard on myself. I know the slightest loss of concentration, the slightest mistake will be punished. I try to limit it as much as possible.

It's a slim margin of error in this league.

I don't want to be a player that signs a long-term deal and towards the end is resented, either by the fan base, by the organization, or on my end for having my performance slip below what my contract dictates.

I married a woman who's not going to take anything. No slips. She's very accountable, and she holds me very accountable.

They say that when it comes to the depth chart, it can change any day and that we dictate how the depth chart goes. If one person has a great day, he might be going with the 'ones.' If a person slips up a little bit, he might be going with the 'twos' and 'threes.'