Quotes About Accountability

If we cannot count on ourselves to do the right thing how can we count on anyone or anything else? Self-government won't work without self-discipline.

I work hard, I work late, I have nothing on my conscience. When I go to bed, I sleep.

Musicians can run this state better than politicians. We won't get a lot done in the mornings, but we'll work late and be honest.

I've done some things that I shouldn't have done but I know I'm not a bad person, and I know that I can become a better person... Only thing I can do is work at it.

I didn't just show up for work, as has sometimes been said. I also showed up to work.

Don't you find it odd that people will put more work into choosing their mechanic or house contractor than they will into choosing the person who grows their food?

So what am I willing to do? Do my work heartily, unto the Lord. There is no higher accountability in life than to do something for God. So that's kind of how I operate.

This is the great work of a man: always to take the blame for his own sins before God, and toexpect temptation to his last breath.

Life operates by deserve. So, in leading people, learn to work with the people who deserve it, not the people who need it.

If a guy doesn't work hard and doesn't play well, he can't lead anything. All he is, is a talker.

We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we've done it.

The biggest mistake you could ever make is to think you work for anyone but yourself

If you cannot allow people to do their jobs ... nobody with substance and creativity will work for you.

If there were mistakes, there were mistakes. But a man has to have a line of work, no?

Only about 2 percent of people can work entirely without supervision. We call those people 'leaders'. This is the kind of person you are meant to be and that you can be, if you decide to be.

You have been given your own work to do. Get to it right now, do your best at it, and don't be concerned with who is watching you. Create your own merit.

Rather than waiting to restore fiscal responsibility after we pass legislation, we must work to ensure we remain committed to it as we draft legislation.

Great leaders don't blame the tools they are given. Great leaders work to sharpen them.

If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault.

I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.

I come to the office each morning and stay for long hours doing what has to be done to the best of my ability. And when you've done the best you can, you can't do any better.

Choosing to take responsibility for ourselves and for the consequences our choices create looks like hard work, but it really sets us free.

The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn't go to his desk at all there is nobody to scold him.

There are no scores for good intention, it either happened or it didn't. Get to work.