Quotes About Accountability

High office teaches decision-making, not substance…. A period in high office consumes intellectual capital; it does not create it.

I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.

Upon learning of Cardinal Richelieu's death, Pope Urban VIII is alleged to have said, "If there is a God, the Cardinal de Richelieu will have much to answer for. If not… well, he had a successful life.

In a business context we're talking about the ability to instill trust that the leader is sharing the hard work, understanding the difficult issues, and being honest in dealing with people so that all the team members feel they're in the same boat in good times and bad times. People have to feel that when hard actions are called for, their leader will be there to take responsibility and be prepared to sacrifice more than others to reach a satisfactory end.

A man always blames the woman who fools him. In the same way he blames the door he walks into in the dark.

A man always blames the woman who fooled him. In the same way he blames the door he walks into in the dark.

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.

Doctors need to be held accountable, since power corrupts. There must be complaints procedures and litigation, commissions of enquiry, punishment and compensation. At the same time if you do not hide or deny any mistakes when things go wrong, and if your patients and their families know that you are distressed by whatever happened, you might, if you are lucky, receive the precious gift of forgiveness.

All the world wants to help Nepal and vast sums of aid have been lavished on the country, yet much of it seems to have disappeared without trace, leaving only faded signs and notice-boards behind.

Es el cirujano quien carga con toda la responsabilidad, pese a toda la cháchara sobre la cultura libre de culpa.

Although the realization of values in a culture may seem on the surface to be concerned merely with the temporal and material, this is appearance only, for man is a spiritual being destined for eternity, exhaustively accountable to his Creator-Lord.

A sin is two sins when it is defended.

Great leaders don't make excuses. They make things better. They are not unrealistic or blind to the difficulties they face. They simply are not discouraged by them. They never lose confidence that the problems can be solved. They maintain a positive attitude. Great leaders don't blame their people for not being where they ought to be; they take their people from where they are to where they need to be. Great leaders never lose faith that this is possible.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you, never excuse yourself.

He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anyone else expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself - and be lenient to everybody else.

it is hard for anyone who is dissatisfied not to blame some one else, and especially the person nearest of all to him, for the ground of his dissatisfaction.

there is a kind of business, called Government service, which allows men to treat other men as things without having human brotherly relations with them; and that they should be so linked together by this Government service that the responsibility for the results of their deeds should not fall on any one of them individually.

To sin is a human business, but to justify sins is a devilish business.

He felt that now over his every word, his every deed, there was a judge, a judgment, which was dearer to him than the judgments of all the people in the world. He spoke now, and along with his words he considered the impression his words would make on Natasha. He did not deliberately say what would be please her, but whatever he said, he judged himself from her point of view.

For the first time in his life he knew the bitterest sort of misfortune, misfortune beyond remedy, misfortune his own fault.

Ružan ?in možeš da ne ponoviš i možeš da se pokaješ zbog njega, ali ružne misli ra?aju isklju?ivo ružne ?ini. Ružan ?in samo utire put ružnim ?inima, a ružne misli nezadrživo vuku tim putem.