Quotes About Accountability

Management is how well it runs when you are there: Leadership is how well it runs when you are not.

What a fearful object a long-neglected duty gets to be

I only answer to two people, myself and God.

But at some point, a full-grown woman has to be accountable for her own self, and for the choices she's made.

Bad things happen when good people do nothing.

We do not have the right to feel helpless. We must help ourselves. After destiny has delivered what it delivers, we are responsible for our lives.

That we must help ourselves. That after destiny has delivered what it delivers, we are responsible for our lives.

This is not your responsibility but it is your problem.

I don't think there's a single dumbass thing I've done in my adult life that I didn't know was a dumbass thing to do while I was doing it. Even when I justified it to myself—as I did every damn time—the truest part of me knew I was doing the wrong thing. Always.

I know it's a kick in the pants to hear that the problem is you, but it's also fucking fantastic. You are, after all, the only person you can change.

we must help ourselves. That after destiny has delivered what it delivers, we are responsible for our lives. We can choose to fling our kids into the grass or we can take deep breaths and walk up and down the hall.

The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it.

A cursory examination of the A&M order proved that Flash had fucked up. The stock numbers were in the wrong columns. The amounts were wrong. Everything was wrong. "Okay, new rule," Garris sighed to the empty store. "No more dope smoking in the stockroom while we're doing record orders.

If I hadn't stopped that guy, everybody woulda just let him go. Nobody wants to put their ass on the line for anything, you know?

It's just that I think we should be responsible for our friends, is all. If we're not, why bother to have friends?

If we think it is okay to cheat in exams, lie to a ticket collector in the train about our kids' ages and pay a bit of money to avoid a big traffic fine, then at some level we clearly don't care about eliminating corruption all that much. At

They are not saviours, and it is unfair to expect them to be. It's not them, but we, who have to solve our problems.

if a majority of us see and expect netas to be service providers instead of rulers, it will trigger a huge behavioural change in the political class.

they drive your nation, but just as a hired driver drives a bus. The driver cannot start believing he owns the bus. The driver should also know that if he doesn't drive well, he will be removed.

The realization that we are responsible for the mess we are in—and that it isn't 'their' fault—is the best hope India has had in decades.

We could have the most amazing leaders, the best policies and the strictest laws; however, if we the people don't care about what the leaders do or about following laws, nothing good can happen.

Fighting corruption is not restricted to naming and shaming a few corrupt officials. If we think it is okay to cheat in exams, lie to a ticket collector in the train about our kids' ages and pay a bit of money to avoid a big traffic fine, then at some level we clearly don't care about eliminating corruption all that much. At best, we hate the politician who gets to steal (while we don't!).

It's not them, but we, who have to solve our problems.

We may want political leaders to not abuse power, but do so ourselves.