Accountability Quotes - Page 2

• People think responsibility is hard to bear. It's not. I think that sometimes it is the absence of responsibility that is harder to bear. You have a great feeling of impotence.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Responsibility, Thinking, People

  10 Copy quote

• Perhaps nothing in our society is more needed for those in positions of authority than accountability.

  Larry Burkett

  Our Society, Authority, Needed

  Larry Burkett (1998). “Business By The Book: Complete Guide of Biblical Principles for the Workplace”, p.11, Thomas Nelson Inc

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• There's not a chance we'll reach our full potential until we stop blaming each other and start practicing personal accountability.

  John Miller

  Business, Personal Accountability, Full Potential

  50 Copy quote

• Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

  Anita Brookner

  Love, Friendship, Strategy

  21 Copy quote

• We all create the person we become by our choices as we go through life. In a real sense, by the time we are adults, we are the sum total of the choices we have made.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Real, Choices, Adults

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.151, Westminster John Knox Press

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!

  W. Edwards Deming

  Ridiculous

  11 Copy quote

• Some favorite expressions of small children: "It's not my fault...They made me do it...I forgot." Some favorite expressions of adults: "It's not my job...No one told me...It couldn't be helped." True freedom begins and ends with personal accountability. -Dan Zadra It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.

  Josiah Stamp

  Jobs, Children, Responsibility

  18 Copy quote

• We need, first of all, for there to be accountability, for there to be somebody who is responsible for enforcing standards and holding people's feet to the fire.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Fire, Hands, Feet

  19 Copy quote

• Even if I have to stand alone, I will not be afraid to stand alone. I'm going to fight for you. I'm going to fight for what's right. I'm going to fight to hold people accountable

  Barbara Boxer

  Fighting, People, Stand Alone

  24 Copy quote

• The United States stands at the pinnacle of world power. This is a solemn moment for the American democracy. For with primacy in power is joined an awe-inspiring accountability for the future.

  Winston Churchill

  America, Democracy, United States

  7 Copy quote

• Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.

  Denis Waitley

  Life, Motivational, Responsibility

  22 Copy quote

• If a man is not faithful to his own individuality, he cannot be loyal to anything.

  Claude McKay

  Inspirational, Faith, Men

  Claude McKay, Gene Andrew Jarrett (1937). “A Long Way from Home”, p.82, Rutgers University Press

  151 Copy quote

  Show source

• Dignity is the reward of holding oneself accountable to conscience.

  Wes Fesler

  Rewards, Dignity, Holding On

  25 Copy quote

• Grace does not cancel out our responsibility or accountability for the things God has given us to do.

  Mike Bickle

  Responsibility, Grace, Doe

  60 Copy quote

• The keys to brand success are self-definition, transparency, authenticity and accountability.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Inspirational, Business, Real

  Twitter post from Jan 10, 2016

  22 Copy quote

  Show source

• The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.

  John Stuart Mill

  Action, Individual, Interest

  On Liberty ch. 5 (1859)

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• Trust is the glue that holds everything together. It creates the environment in which all of the other elements win-win stewardship agreements, self-directing individuals and teams, aligned structures and systems, and accountability can flourish.

  Stephen Covey

  Team, Winning, Self

  Stephen R. Covey, A. Roger Merrill, Rebecca R. Merrill (1995). “First Things First”, p.243, Simon and Schuster

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• It was accountability that Nixon feared.

  Bob Woodward

  Literature

  "Watergate: 25 Years Later". The Washington Post Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. June 17, 1997.

  39 Copy quote

  Show source

• Never promise more than you can perform.

  Publilius Syrus

  Commitment, Promise, Proactive

  "The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave: From the Latin". Book by Darius Lyman. Maxim 528, 1856.

  45 Copy quote

  Show source

• I believe that all of us have gangster proclivities and greedy orientations that need accountability. That's why democracies are necessary. We have to have institutions to try to curtail the use of arbitrary power so that our greedy orientations and gangster-like proclivities don't get out of hand.

  Cornel West

  Believe, Hands, Democracy

  Source: www.pbs.org

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• Democracy must be built through open societies that share information. When there is information, there is enlightenment. When there is debate, there are solutions. When there is no sharing of power, no rule of law, no accountability, there is abuse, corruption, subjugation and indignation.

  Atifete Jahjaga

  Law, Abuse, Democracy

  50 Copy quote

• When we are really honest with ourselves we must admit our lives are all that really belong to us. So it is how we use our lives that determines the kind of men we are.

  Cesar Chavez

  Honesty, Men, Use

  19 Copy quote

• Great companies have high cultures of accountability, it comes with this culture of criticism I was talking about before, and I think our culture is strong on that.

  Steve Ballmer

  Strong, Thinking, Talking

  18 Copy quote

• It means a lot. It means I'm accountable.

  Champ Bailey

  Mean

  19 Copy quote

• The vast possibilities of our great future will become realities only if we make ourselves responsible for those realities.

  Gifford Pinchot

  Future, Reality, Possibility

  63 Copy quote