Quotes About Accountability

These experiences established a pattern for all the years and careers that came afterward. Always do your best, no matter how difficult the job, or how much you dislike it, your bosses, the work environment, or your fellow workers. As the old expression goes, if you take the king's coin, you give the king his due.

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.

Never Walk Past a Mistake

instituted Kester's law on signatures. John Kester taught me that every time I put my name to something, I created a legal document. Consequently, no one should sign anything for me but the most innocuous paper.

So instead of talking about theoretical ways of ending the war and violence, I say that we have to get rid of the individual asholes in each office and situation.

It wasn't his fault. It wasn't my fault. Darla chose her own path, as we all must.

If everyone looked the other way, then everybody was in on it. If he looked the other way, he was as implicated as the rest. That's how he saw it, how he'd always seen things.

Vous n'êtes pas responsable de la tête que vous avez mais vous êtes responsable de la gueule que vous faites. You aren't responsible for the way your face looks, but you're responsible for the face you're making.

Those who enforce laws must also abide by them.

The first step for a leader is to be right with yourself. Integrity is the basis of leadership.

The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.

The demands that a gentleman makes are upon himself; those that a small man makes are upon others.

The superior man cannot be known in little matters, but he may be entrusted with great concerns. The small man may not be entrusted with great concerns, but he may be known in little matters.

Things that are done, it is needless to speak about...things that are past, it is needless to blame.

If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake.

It behooves us ill to look back and point fingers, saying, 'Ah, that should not have happened. That should not have been allowed.' Such a perspective is granted only to men staring backward, Sir William. For those of us with the will to go forward, it is as if we walk blindfolded into a dark room. Not every false step or stumble can be judged after the moment has passed, nor should it be.

Weak people always looked for those to blame

We only have one chance, even if the entire world rests on us.

I went through a long period of time in that marriage when I didn't believe anything was my fault. I had to face what my part was, and only because of that difficult work was I able to trust a man again.

People always want to pin yesterday's news on you, as opposed to asking you what you're going to do for the future, what you're doing today.

If you break little promises, you'll break big ones.

It began to seem that the generals had got us into something they had no business doing.

As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.

Leaders inspire accountability through their ability to accept responsibility before they place blame.