Quotes About Accountability

Generosity is also marked by doing what one says one will do.

If you will not reprove yourself,' Saadi says, 'you will not welcome reproof from another.

Who is the wrong person to criticise? You

La pereza es siempre culpa tuya. Es el signo de que un hombre ha perseverado inútilmente durante mucho tiempo.

Never promise, even by implication, without fulfilling your promise. The only acceptable alternative to completing an undertaking is to over-fulfil it. To betray any promise, explicit or otherwise, will harm you more than it can harm anyone else.

Dicho del Sheikh Ziaudin: La autojustificación es peor que la ofensa original.

La generosidad también se caracteriza por hacer lo que uno dice que hará.

Si no te reprochas a ti mismo", dice Saadi, "no aceptarás el reproche ajeno.

En manos de los políticos, todo proyecto acaba en una antigua forma de infelicidad, ya no merecen nuestra entrega ni nuestra obligación.

The life I am experiencing, good or bad, is the collective result of the choices I have made, knowingly or unknowingly. When I accept this, I acknowledge that I have the power to create my destiny.

If the gift is finally the sign and content of Christ's lordship in earth, we can no longer live by our own will and right but constantly stand in responsibility and accountability. . . . To this degree the last day does not differ from each earthly day'.

The day people stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them.

One of the fondest expressions around is that [America] can't be the world's policeman. But guess who gets called when suddenly someone needs a cop.

[On invading Iraq:] You break it, you own it.

Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.

The day the soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help them or concluded that you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

The day you are not solving problems or are not up to your butt in problems is probably a day you are no longer leading. If your desk is clean and no one is bringing you problems, you should be very worried. It means that people don't think you can solve them or don't want to hear about them. Or, far worse, it means they don't think you care.

The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them.

When things go badly, it is your fault, not theirs. You are responsible. Analyze how it happened, make the necessary fixes, and move on. No mass punishment or floggings. Fire people if you need to, train harder, insist on a higher level of performance, give halftime rants if that shakes a group up. But never forget that failure is your responsibility.

Whenever you place the cause of one of your actions outside yourself, it's an excuse and not a reason.

If you take the pay, earn it. Always do your very best. Even when no one else is looking, you always are. Don't disappoint yourself.

There are times when American lives must be risked and lost. Foreign policy cannot be paralyzed by the prospect of casualties. But lives must not be risked until we can face a parent or a spouse or a child with a clear answer to the question of why a member of that family had to die. To provide a "symbol" or a "presence" is not good enough.

Never Walk Past a Mistake This is one of the first lessons drilled into young military leaders. To put it another way: make on-the-spot corrections.

The other lawyer looked at him and said, "Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it." In short, accept that your position was faulty, not your ego. This doesn't mean you don't argue with passion and intensity.