Quotes About Accountability

Or else they will say: "Thank you so much for speaking for me when I was too little to speak." "Dad, Mom, Grandma, Grandpa," they will ask: "What did you do?" So let me leave you with this question: What did you do?

In 2020–22, we entered a time in which the post–World War II organizing principle of human affairs, the democratic nation-state, was being intentionally diluted in power and undermined in the interest of constructing a replacement meta-structure of unaccountable loosely aligned global nonprofits, Big Tech corporations, the WEF, and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

success requires no apologies, failure permits no alibis.

Building alibis is a deeply rooted habit.

The world will forgive you if you make mistakes, but it will never forgive you if you make no DECISIONS, because it will never hear of you outside of the community in which you live.

PROCRASTINATION. The habit of putting off until tomorrow that which should have been done last year.

Shifting responsibility to the sales manager.

Spending too much time and effort creating excuses. Explanations do not explain. Orders do.

When a man, whether he is a leader or follower, admits that he is "too busy" to change his plans, or to give attention to any emergency, he admits his inefficiency. The successful leader must be the master of all details connected with his position.

Before complaining that you are a slave to another, be sure that you are not a slave to self.

Have I, have you, been too silent? Is there an easy crime of silence?

Look out how you use proud words. When you let proud words go, it is not easy to call them back. They wear long boots, hard boots; they walk off proud; they can't hear you calling - Look out how you use proud words.

A warrior takes responsibility for his acts, for the most trivial of acts. An average man acts out his thoughts, and never takes responsibility for what he does.

A man who could urinate standing up and without help was a man in a fit state to face his responsibilities.

Acho que o problema não está na ciência, mas naqueles que decidem como empregá-la.

We need a few trusted naysayers in our lives, critics who are willing to puncture our protective bubble of self-justifications and yank us back to reality if we veer too far off. This is especially important for people in positions of power.

It's the people who almost decide to live in glass houses who throw the first stones.

Nothing predicts future behavior as much as past impunity.

A president who justifies his actions to the public might be induced to change them. A president who justifies his actions to himself, believing that he has the truth, is impervious to self-correction.

There are plenty of good reasons for admitting mistakes, starting with the simple likelihood that you will probably be found out anyway—by

We want to hear, we long to hear, "I screwed up. I will do my best to ensure that it will not happen again." Most of us are not impressed when a leader offers the form of Kennedy's admission without its essence, as in Ronald Reagan's response to the Iran-Contra scandal, which may be summarized as "I didn't do anything wrong myself, but it happened on my watch, so, well, I guess I'll take responsibility."3 That doesn't cut it.

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. —historian and essayist Thomas Carlyle

Caroline B. Cooney

Lord, it's only been six months since the last time I was a total jerk, thought Reeve. Am I going to be a total jerk again?