Quotes About Accountability

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

Nobody can do everything well, so learn how to delegate responsibility to other winners and then hold them accountable for their decisions.

You never help others by allowing them to getaway with giving less than their best efforts.

the American people must mature. We are an adolescent lot, expecting solutions to insoluble problems and perfection in our leaders.

I think that both men, Bush and Blair, will be damned in history. Both men have made their respective countries the two most hated countries in the world.

the same people who are taking this approach to any idea of sending an American accused to a court in the Hague are the very people demanding that my friend must be sent by Britain to the United States to disappear for the rest of his life for publishing documents which revealed war crimes.

if you don't punish lying in your political leaders, then why should they stop lying?

You want an excuse for your failure and so you found someone to blame. If you survived, you would always be dirt, ground under someone else's boot.

She was the kind of person who would see a pot overflowing on the stove and come and tell you about it, instead of picking it up and moving it off the burner. And then she would be proud of herself for acting quickly in a crisis.

An unit is only as good as its leader. That's why a good leader holds herself to the highest standard. It's not about being liked or being fair. It's about deciding what your goal is and doing what is necessary to achieve it. Especially when it's difficult.

You could've found me. You could've demanded an explanation. Instead your bright idea to deal with this mess was not to talk to me. Do you get off having me chase after you like some sixteen-year-old?" "Twelve tops. Sixteen is giving you too much credit." He bit the air. "Look who's talking.

Just saying, you have to pull your own weight. A hot body and flirting will only get you so far.

We make our own choices in life. Our actions shape our lives, and we alone are responsible for them." "When

Calling people out" was her preferred method of dealing with issues.

She'd been around long enough to know that it was a rare man who fully accepted responsibility for his actions, who didn't offer any excuses.

We make our own choices in life. Our actions shape our lives, and we alone are responsible for them.

Because killing random people just because they did something you don't like makes you the bad guy.

If I have a book that thinks for me, a pastor who acts as my conscience, a physician who prescribes my diet, and so on... then I have no need to exert myself. I have no need to think, if only I can pay; others will take care of that disagreeable business for me.

Faulheit und Feigheit sind die Ursachen, warum ein so großer Teil der Menschen, nachdem sie die Natur längst von fremder Leitung frei gesprochen, dennoch gerne zeitlebens unmündig bleiben; und warum es anderen so leicht wird, sich zu deren Vormündern aufzuwerfen.

Tudo o que não puder contar como fez, não faça!

Intellectual honesty does not consist in trying to entrench or establish one's position by proving (or 'probabilifying') it - intellectual honesty consists rather in specifying precisely the condi-tions under which one is willing to give up one's position.

Do not forget that every people deserves the government it is willing to endure!

Blame is just a shame game.

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.