Quotes About Accountability

Good subjects must feel guilty. The guilt begins as a feeling of failure. The good autocrat provides many opportunities for failure in the populace.

When we want to do something while unconsciously certain to fail, we seek advice so we can blame someone else for the failure.

The cost of failure is really high when you're contributing as yourself.

When an action is once done, it is right or wrong for ever; no accidental failure of its good or evil fruits can possibly alter that.

Uncalled for excuses are practical confessions.

The incompetent quickly throws himself into another impressive enterprise in order to escape his responsibility from previous disaster.

It's not hard to stand behind one's successes. But to accept responsibility for one's failures... that is devishly hard!

We must not fail, individually, for if we fail, we fail twice - for ourselves and for those who could have been helped, if we had done our duty.

Secrecy breeds incompetence because where there is failure, failure is kept secret.

We never like to admit to ourselves that we have made a mistake. Organizational structures tend to accentuate this source of failure of information.

Heroism is about taking an action which represents a breakthrough, and then assuming full responsiblity for it, even if it's a failure.

Intent is guilt. Failure to successfully carry out the intent does not absolve the guilt.

It is to escape the responsibility for failure that the weak so eagerly throw themselves into grandiose undertakings.

I think the company's [HP's] success will be my legacy. The company's failure will be my failure, with all the predictable consequences of that.

The only time a mistake becomes a failure is when we look for someone to blame.

It is painful to reflect upon your failures knowing that you alone caused them.

I don't need to be looking at every failure of government, I need to be looking where failure of government needs reform.

You can fail many times, but you're not a failure until you begin to blame somebody else.

Good deeds must be rewarded by the system and crimes be punished - this is the essence of meritocracy.

It is how humans are wired to remember. They either take more credit for success or more responsibility for failure than is their due.

Shouldering the blame for failure and conferring credit where it is due comes rarely to most.

True equality means holding everyone accountable in the same way, regardless of race, gender, faith, ethnicity - or political ideology.

People hand over the power to you withimmense faith. It's your job to ensure tough implementation of laws.

For a person to be truly discipled and growing in their faith, they need more than one person discipling them.