Quotes About Accountability

accept complete responsibility for yourself, your life, and your results, with no excuses

Un elemento que has marcado con la A es algo que debes hacer. Es algo importante y tiene consecuencias graves, ya sea que se haga o no.

Los elementos B son aquellas cosas que deberías hacer. Hay consecuencias leves por hacer (o no hacer) las tareas B

Las actividades con una C son agradables de hacer, pero no tienen consecuencias, ni positivas ni negativas.

They discovered that the most powerful of all motivators was described as "knowing what's expected.

Hasta ahora, ha determinado toda su vida por las elecciones y decisiones que ha hecho o dejado de hacer. Si hay algo en su vida que no le guste, usted es el responsable. Si hay algo de lo que no está contento, a usted le toca dar los pasos necesarios para cambiarlo y mejorarlo de forma que sea más de su gusto.

A key result area is defined as something for which you are completely responsible.

The world is full of people who are waiting for someone to come along and motivate them to be the kind of people they wish they could be. The problem is that no one is coming to the rescue.

What it really means is that the general must understand that he is not a free agent and cannot hope to become one. He has to work within the limitations imposed by the fact that he is working for a democracy, which means that at times he must modify or abandon the soundest military plan and make do with a second-best.

This army lived and moved under the weight of a peculiar curse. So many incompetents wore shoulder straps, and there was so much lost motion between orders and their execution, that unless the commanding general did spend part of his time looking into the matter of his soldiers' rations, those rations were going to deteriorate very swiftly. 6 As with rations, so with weightier things.

Freedom is the right to be free, and then the obligation to accept responsibility. If you don't understand that, then ugly stuff happens. And when you do understand that, you're prepared to meet the obligations straight-on.

Employees today want to know, "What do you want from me today, tomorrow, this week, this month, this year? And what do you have to offer me in return today, tomorrow, this week, this month, this year?

Well, I think if you say you're going to do something and don't do it, that's trustworthiness.

Self-realization is the sweetest thing. It shows us how we are fully responsible for ourselves, and that is where we find our freedom.

As long as you think that the cause of your problem is "out there"—as long as you think that anyone or anything else is responsible for your suffering—the situation is hopeless. It

To make amends" means to right the perceived wrong. What I call "living amends" is more far-reaching. It applies not only to one particular incident but to all future incidents of that kind.

It's not up to my employees to accomplish what I want; it's up to me. I'm the boss. And the reason that firing you is so kind is that I've just released you from a torture chamber and allowed you to move into a space where you are qualified. And because of my clarity and kindness, the position is open for the right person to move into it. Anything less than that is masochism: it's unkind to you and to me.

Murder is unseemly. Making certain a killer doesn't get away with what he has done is an obligation we the living owe to the dead—no matter how unsavory we consider them to be.

For surely a king is first a man. And so it must follow that a king does as all men do: the best he can.

Silence can never be taken back.

It's every individual's responsibility to find his own peace – you can't expect any sort of retribution, or believe that it will be delivered some day.

If you are going to do wrong, at least make sure you don't get fat from it.

I know I have to do the right thing. And the sooner you do the right thing, the better. You get it over with, and you don't have to worry about it anymore. But who does that in real life? Instead, you procrastinate and think about it and put it off and think about it some more until that one little pebble grows into a giant block inside your head.

I have this theory: You can get away with anything as long as you act like you're not doing anything wrong.