Quotes About Accountability

like to see Clay McCann thrown in prison because he doesn't like the idea of a man getting away with murder in his state, despite the weird legal circumstances of this one.

It's inevitable that when there are hundreds of thousands of bureaucrats with endless budgets, who have no accountability and can't be fired, that these things are bound to happen.

How easy it is to leave things undone until they are too late.

Am I my brother's keeper?

Discipline #3: Keep a Compelling Scoreboard

Discipline #4: Create a Cadence of Accountability

without these accountability tools, I tended to procrastinate on this work, turning my attention to more urgent but less important matters.

but none of whom gave the impression of being willing to put up with questionable behavior from anyone else ever again.

We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.

Nothing is easier than the expenditure of public money. It doesn't appear to belong to anyone. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody.

They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.

If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.

It is difficult for men in high office to avoid the malady of self-delusion. They are always surrounded by worshipers. They are constantly, and for the most part sincerely, assured of their greatness. They live in an artificial atmosphere of adulation and exaltation which sooner or later impairs their judgment. They are in grave danger of becoming careless and arrogant.

we have no right to claim a love for God while we walk the selfish ledges of disregard for what God requires of us. Utter

But we have arrived at a glistening, smug day when nobody much sins, and those that do are prone to call it something else.

No matter who you are, you are answerable to yourself.

She did what she did, then left the rest of us to deal with it.

Como podia alguém justificar as ações mais perversas com a ideia de que tinha carta branca de Deus?

We cannot have a world where everyone is a victim. "I'm this way because my father made me this way. I'm this way because my husband made me this way." Yes, we are indeed formed by traumas that happen to us. But then you must take charge, you must take over, you are responsible.

Your success is 100 percent your responsibility.

We can't claim heaven as our own if we are just going to sit under it.

There are no office hours for leaders.

It is often tragic to see how blatantly a man bungles his own life and the lives of others yet remains totally incapable of seeing how much the whole tragedy originates in himself, and how he continually feeds it and keeps it going.