Quotes About Accountability

Bad excuses are worse than none.

If you don't want to do something, one excuse is as good as another.

You can make excuses or you can get the job done, but you can't do both.

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

It was our fault, and our very great fault — and now we must turn it to use; We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse! So the more we work and the less we talk the better results we shall get...

Justifying a fault doubles it.

The things you want to do are all up to you— Excuses are sabotage.

Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.

Don't fling your butt beside the trail and we won't fling your butt in jail.

If you are not as close to God as you used to be, who moved?

I wondered why somebody didn't do something. Then I realized, I am somebody.

History is to the effect that man's sins always find him out; but men continue to bet that they won't.

What we wanted to do we went and did, on our legs upstanding, and we faced all reproof and censure on our legs upstanding, and did not hide behind the skirts of classical economists and bourgeois philosophers, nor behind the skirts of subsidized preachers, professors, and editors.

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When you report to people every week about the condition of the company, you establish credibility. When you get them to write the information down, you teach. Education comes by repetition.

6. You Can Sometimes Fool the Fans, But You Can Never Fool the Players.

problems almost always come down to the individuals involved. Equity isn't the issue; it's the excuse.

Humanity many times has had sad experience of super-powerful police forces … As soon as (the police) slip from under the firm thumb of a suspicious local tribune, they become arbitrary, merciless, a law unto themselves.

We've all been guilty at one point or another in our careers of boasting of perfect hindsight. It's a terrible sin. If you don't make sure your questions and concerns are acted upon, it doesn't count.

The boss would be present at the beginning of each session, laying out the rationale for the Work-Out. He or she would also commit to two things: to give an on-the-spot yes or no to 75 percent of the recommendations that came out of the session, and to resolve the remaining 25 percent within thirty days. The boss would then disappear until the end of the session, so as not to stifle open discussion, returning only at the end to make good on his or her promise.*

I always follow 4E's wrapped in a 'P

Whoever reads the account of the cries that came to us afloat on the sea from those sinking in the ice-cold water must remember that they were addressed to him just as much as to those who heard them, and that the duty of seeing that reforms are carried out devolves on every one who knows that such cries were heard in utter helplessness the night the Titanic sank.

If I'm to be damned for what I've done, I'll be damned in full and not by halves.

As often as not, we forge our own chains. And from those, not even Adonai Himself can free us. We must do it ourselves.