Quotes On Accountability! 340 Sayings to Inspire Accountability
Quotes on Accountability
“Accountability breeds response-ability.” —Stephen R. Covey
“What you do, tells me everything about you. —Jerry Fernandez
“Accountability means to say what you do, do what you say. —Pearl Zhu
“I believe that accountability is the basis of all meaningful human achievement.” —Sam Silverstein
“The benefits and possibilities that are created created by being personally accountable are countless. —Jay Fiset
“When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else. —David Brin
“Responsibility equals accountability equals ownership. And a sense of ownership is the most powerful weapon a team or organization can have. —Pat Summitt
“When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself. —Louis Nizer
“Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.” —Les Brown
“For most people, blaming others is a subconscious mechanism for avoiding accountability. In reality, the only thing in your way is YOU. —Jean Hamilton-Ford
“Creating a culture of integrity and accountability not only improves effectiveness, it also generates a respectful, enjoyable and life-giving setting in which to work.” —Tom Hanson
“Each day you are leading by example. Whether you realize it or not or whether it’s positive or negative, you are influencing those around you.” ―Rob Liano
“In life we can have results or reasons. If you are not getting the results you want, your reasons are the lies that you keep telling yourself.” —Harald Anderson
“Accountability and self-responsibility are critical to our success in personal, professional and public life. However, we often look for those character traits in others, rather than inculcating them in ourselves. —Vishwas Chavan
Quotes on Accountability and Responsibility
“Accountability is the glue that bonds commitment to results.” ―Will Craig
“Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.” —Napoleon Hill
“To function effectively, a business requires leaders who are accountable for driving success.” —Barry Linetsky
“Talent is part of the equation, but when you combine talent with accountability and authenticity, it is tough to beat.” ―David Ross
“If we want unity, we must all be unifiers. If we want accountability, each of us must be accountable for all we do.” —Christine Gregoire
“The first step to creating a wealthy life is starting from wherever you are today. That self-honesty takes the highest level of personal accountability.” —Loral Langemeier
“When accountability is present, people keep their eyes on a very clear prize. They know what they are working toward and how they are going to get there.” —Henry J. Evans
“It’s just that we’re all accountable for our own happiness. And being happy does matter. It’s up to each of us to find out what shape or form that takes.” —Peter Jennings
“You will not experience dramatic change in your struggle as long as you use accountability to describe your sins instead of declaring your need for help in the midst of temptation.” ―Heath Lambert
“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.” —Ceasar Chavez
Quotes about accountability in Life
“Blame is the coward’s solution to his fear of accountability.” —Craig D. Lounsbrough
“You are accountable for your actions, your decisions, your life; no one else is, but you.” —Catherine Pulsifer
“Ninety-nine percent of all failures come from people who have a habit of making excuses.” —George Washington Carver
“It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable.” —Moliere
“It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.” —Sir Josiah Stamp
“We are all responsible and accountable for what we do or say even if those behaviors occur in stressful times.” —Byron Pulsifer
“Accountability separates the wishers in life from the action-takers that care enough about their future to account for their daily actions.” —John Di Lemme
“In reality, we all have our lives, and the accountability for the achievement of our dreams and goals falls strictly on our own shoulders.” —Thomas Matt
“Be accountable for doing the right things. This means ethical execution of the activities that will actually support the goals you have chosen for yourself.” —Sam Silverstein
“In life, we can have results or reasons. If you are not getting the results you want, your reasons are the lies that you keep telling yourself.” —Harald Anderson
“My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.” —Oprah Winfrey
“When accountability is present, people keep their eyes on a very clear prize. They know what they are working toward and how they are going to get there.” —Henry J. Evans
“People are more inclined to pass the buck than they are to take responsibility. The fact is, though, passing the buck doesn’t build your character or give you the opportunity to learn from your mistakes.” —Marshall Goldsmith
“Neither age nor experience matters when it comes to being personally accountable for any and all outcomes- no excuses whatsoever- be they positive or negative, nor shifting blame to other people or to external factors.” —Kory Livingstone
“Accountability is – first and foremost – about being reliable. To get a good picture of your personal accountability, you may want to periodically ask yourself, “Can people count on me to do what I say I’ll do, as I said I would do it?” —Henry J. Evans
Inspirational Quotes On Accountability
“In dreams begin responsibilities.” —W.B. Yeats
“God gave burdens, also shoulders.” —Yiddish proverb
“Take accountability before an excuse snatches you.” —Tyconis D. Allison Ty
“Never compromise your values.” —Steve Maraboli
“The enemy of accountability is ambiguity.” —Patrick Lencioni
“The time is always right to do what is right.” —Martin Luther King, Jr.
“If you can’t stand the heat, you’d better get out of the kitchen.” —Harry S. Truman
“It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one’s acts.” —Mahatma Gandhi
“If you let other people do it for you, they will do it to you.” —Robert Anthony
“It’s not about what we do today. It’s about who we are every day.” —Craig D. Lounsbrough
“Own your mistakes. Even when you’re in the process of screwing up.” —Amber Hurdle
“The reason people blame things on the previous generation is that there’s only one other choice.” —Doug Larson
“Real leadership involves clear communication, personal accountability, and a zest for bringing out the best in everyone!” —Farshad Asl
“Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.” —Sigmund Freud
“Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.” —Clint Eastwood
“There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.” —Denis Waitley
“We hardly ever realize that we can cut anything out of our lives, anytime, in the blink of an eye.” —Carlos Costeneda
“The benefits and possibilities that are created by being personally accountable are countless.” —Jay Fiset
“We’ve learned to hold ourselves accountable in the end, but we still fail to ask for help in the middle.” —Darnell Lamont Walker
“Eventually we all have to accept full and total responsibility for our actions, everything we have done, and have not done.” —Hubert Selby Jr.
“Wisdom stems from personal accountability. We all make mistakes; own them… learn from them. Don’t throw away the lesson by blaming others.” —Steve Maraboli
“Individuals and teams have a sense of ownership, and are focused, disciplined and collaborative, while holding each other accountable for outcomes.” —Di Worrall
“Without accountability time would pass our intentions uncontested, then one day we awaken, finding our objective lost to the penalty of neglect.” —W. Larsen Hughes
“Accountability is a statement of personal promise, both to yourself and to the people around you, to deliver specific defined results.” —Brian Dive, The Accountable Leader
“Teams keep leaders accountable for the goal. Individuals connected to no one can change the goal without accountability.” —John C. Maxwell, The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork
“In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.” —Eleanor Roosevelt
“Truly accountable leadership is the only way to build an organization that can not only survive in our increasingly complicated world but also grow and thrive.” —Vince Molinaro, The Leadership Contract
“360° accountability as an entrepreneur. You are held: accountable to God; accountable to your family; accountable to your team; accountable to your clients; accountable to yourself; accountable to your outcome.” —Farshad Asl
“The benefit of truly accountable leaders is that they are able to create effective structures where their staff know what is expected of them and can improve the business for customers.” —Jane Storm
“In the years I’ve been thinking and talking about leadership, I’ve come to realize that the desperate need for accountable leaders is the fundamental challenge organizations are facing today.” —Vince Molinaro, The Leadership Contract
“Once people had a clear idea of what decisions they should and should not be making, holding them accountable for decisions felt fair.” —Gary L. Neilson, “Harvard Business Review‘s 10 Must Reads on Strategy”
“When we fail to set boundaries and hold people accountable, we feel used and mistreated. This is why we sometimes attack who they are, which is far more hurtful than addressing a behaviour or a choice.” —Brené Brown
“Your organization needs great leaders at all levels, now more than ever. You need to be the best leader you can possibly be.” —Vince Molinaro, The Leadership Contract Field Guide: The Personal Roadmap to Becoming a Truly Accountable Leader
“The worst thing that can happen to you as a young person, is to refuse to grow up. You refuse to grow up when you believe that someone else must take responsibility for your life and life circumstances.” —Saidi Mdala, Know What Matters
“It is easy to let go of the string and think: This isn’t me, it’s the arrow. My hands do not bear the blood of this boy, it’s the arrow that killed him, not me. But the arrow does not dream at night.” —Andrzej Sapkowski
“Obligers may find it difficult to form a habit, because often we undertake habits for our own benefit, and obligers do things more easily for others than for themselves. For them, the key is external accountability.” —Gretchen Rubin, Better Than Before: Mastering the Habits of Our Everyday Lives
“I will either adamantly prioritize my agendas at the expense of the truth, or I will consistently bring my agendas into unrelenting obedience to the truth. And if for some reason you’re trying to determine who I truly am, the choice I make will tell you.” —Craig D. Lounsbrough
“You may believe that you are responsible for what you do, but not for what you think. The truth is that you are responsible for what you think, because it is only at this level that you can exercise choice. What you do comes from what you think.” —Marianne Williamson
“Try holding yourself accountable to yourself. If you had to give yourself a daily, weekly, or monthly report, would you be proud to talk about what you had done, or would you need to be prettying up things, bullsh***ing, or lying to keep your job?” —Loren Weisman, The Artist’s Guide to Success in the Music Business
“No one knows themselves very well. Who has the time these days? Have you been formally introduced to yourself? Made the effort to get to know your faults and your strengths, sat yourself down to tea and listened to all your troubles, answered the call when your self falters? Then how can you say you know yourself in the least?” —Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two
Accountability Quotes for the Workplace
“When people feel accountable and included, it is more fun.” —Alan Mulally
“Open collaboration encourages greater accountability, which in turn fosters trust.” —Ron Garan
“Leaders inspire accountability through their ability to accept responsibility before they place blame.”―Courtney Lynch
“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
“The best kind of accountability on a team is peer-to-peer. Peer pressure is more efficient and effective than going to the leader, anonymously complaining, and having them stop what they are doing to intervene.” —Patrick Lencioni
Quotes on Accountability and Responsibility in Leadership
“Never promise more than you can perform.” —Publilius Syrus
“Accountability is the measure of a leader’s height.” —Jeffrey Benjamin
“No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.” —Stanislaw Lec
“Good men are bound by conscience and liberated by accountability.” —Wes Fessler
“Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.” —Denis Waitley
“He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.” —Benjamin Franklin
“It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.” —Epictetus
“On good teams coaches hold players accountable, on great teams players hold players accountable.” —Joe Dumars
“A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.” —Dean Acheson
“It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.” —Alfred Adler
“So then each of us will give an account of himself to God.” —1 Thessalonians 5:11
“Mankind must put an end to war, before war puts an end to mankind.” —John F. Kennedy
“If a picture speaks a thousand words, your actions forever record what you believe in.” —Jerry Fernandez
“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” —Edmund Burke
“If a man is not faithful to his own individuality, he cannot be loyal to anything.” —Claude Mckay
“God judges men according to the use they make of the light which He gives them.” —Joseph Smith
“The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit of doing them.” —Benjamin Jowett
“Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account.” —Benjamin Franklin
“At the end of the day we are accountable to ourselves – our success is a result of what we do.” —Catherine Pulsifer
“Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.” —Plato
“We preach accountability. A player has to understand what he’s doing and why. And we have to be responsible for improving them.” —Jeff Banister
“Every person’s work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of that person.” —Samuel Butler
“We have a problem when the same people who make the law get to decide whether or not they themselves have broken the law.” —Michel Templet
“The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that’s the day you start to the top.” —O. J. Simpson
“And no creature is hidden from his sight, but all are naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give account.” —Hebrews 4:13
“The greatest discovery of our generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. As you think, so shall you be.” —William James
“I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.” —Mia Hamm
“Our tradition calls for a commitment to accountability. This is not an assumption – this is a promise that I will be there for you; and I can count on you being there for me.” —Bob Ladouceur
“It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.” —Napolean Hill
“Duties are not performed for duty’s sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable. A man performs but one duty – the duty of contenting his spirit, the duty of making himself agreeable to himself.” —Mark Twain
“Leaders must develop a lower threshold for alibis and become better communicators and enforcers of what they want done. Holding people accountable to high standards and results is nothing to apologize for. Failing to stretch them to their potential is.” —Dave Anderson
Quotes On Accountability In Politics
“I want a minister to be in charge of a line department so they have clear political accountability. —Campbell Newman
“True equality means holding everyone accountable in the same way, regardless of race, gender, faith, ethnicity – or political ideology. —Monica Crowley
“In the old days, the media is who held people accountable when they lied in politics. That isn’t happening anymore. —Rush Limbaugh
“Debate is almost non-existent and no one is apparently accountable to anybody apart from their political party bosses. It is bad news for democracy in this country. —Helen Suzman
“Most of all, be honest with yourself and make sure those in political office, our so called public servants, are being honest, holding them accountable for their actions. —David Pratt
“The political process does not end on Election Day. Young people need to stay involved in the process by continuing to pay attention to the conversation and holding their leaders accountable for the decisions they make. —Patrick Murphy
“When you don’t have accountability, there’s no limit to the things that people will say. One of the restraints on the vitriol and the filth that so often is part of the American political debate is that candidates have to stand by their ads. —Sheldon Whitehouse
“I recognize I have faults. I’m accountable for them, and I try to do what I can to correct them. I will say that it’s unfortunate that everything I do is scrutinized to the point that it is. Frankly, I don’t watch the news, I stay away from political conversations. —George Zimmerman
“Thanks to the Internet in general and social media in particular, the Chinese people now have a mechanism to hold authorities accountable for wrongdoing – at least sometimes – without any actual political or legal reforms having taken place. Major political power struggles and scandals are no longer kept within elite circles. —Rebecca MacKinnon
“When I was at the CIA I asked my civilian advisory board to tackle some tough questions. Among the toughest: In a political culture that every day demands more transparency and more public accountability from every aspect of national life, could American intelligence continue to survive and succeed? That jury is still out. —Michael Hayden
“What I do know is that writing is the thing I am best at, and I don’t have the stomach, the ability, the strength or the courage to enter the political arena. And I think writing can be a political act, if only to let those people accountable know they are being watched. Literature can be a conscience. —Miguel Syjuco
Quotes On Accountability In Government
“Government commissions are where accountability goes to die.” —Ilana Mercer
“What we are missing, utterly and completely, in this government is accountability.” —Paul Hawken
“Using these unnamed sources, if done properly, carefully and fairly, provides more accountability in government.” —Bob Woodward
“The Government of the United States would be constrained to hold the Imperial German government to a strict accountability for such acts of their naval authorities.” —William Jennings Bryan
“Certainly accountability of government is what people are clamoring for; they want to know that when lawmakers make a promise or a proposal, you can actually accomplish it.” —Jim Nussle
“ [Government] regulation is an imperfect substitute for the accountability, and trust, built into a market in which food producers meet the gaze of eaters and vice versa.” —Michael Pollan
“The special harm attaching to prior restraint is that the government can keep materials from reaching the public, so there can be no accountability, no judgment by the people that the power to suppress was wrongly exercised.” —Randal Marlin
“Journalism is the only profession explicitly protected by the U.S. Constitution, because journalists are supposed to be the check and balance on government. We’re supposed to be holding those in power accountable. We’re not supposed to be their megaphone. That’s what the corporate media have become.” —Amy Goodman
“Subsidiarity is the principle that government works best most responsibly and responsively when it is closest to the people it serves and the needs it addresses. Fiscal accountability is the principle that institutions collecting and disbursing taxes work most responsibly when they are transparent to those providing the money.” —Jane Jacobs
“Democracy is not about trust; it is about distrust. It is about accountability, exposure, open debate, critical challenge, and popular input and feedback from the citizenry. It is about responsible government. We have to get our fellow Americans to trust their leaders less and themselves more, trust their own questions and suspicions, and their own desire to know what is going on.” —Michael Parenti
“The top group of fundraisers for Mr. Obama raised $457,834 for his 2008 campaign – and were approved for federal grants and loans of $11.4 billion, according to the Government Accountability Institute. Selling access to the federal treasury has been a great way for Democrats to raise campaign funds. Since 1989, according to an analysis by Gateway Pundit, big donors have provided $416 million more in direct contributions to Democrats than Republicans.” —Jack Kelly
Quotes On Accountability And Transparency
“I just think we need more accountability and more transparency.” —John Thune
“I introduced the Transparency in Government Act, a multi-faceted transparency bill that would bring unprecedented access and accountability to the federal government.” —Mike Quigley
“Everyone understands that in a modern economy – transparency, accountability, a working justice system are part of having a functioning, modern society.” —Alexander Stille
“We need to replace hyperbole with a reasonable, informed discussion about how to reinvent the federal budget with more transparency and better accountability.” —Mike Quigley
“Concerned Veterans for America (CVA) has called for an audit of the Pentagon, so that we finally have some transparency and accountability in how DOD spends taxpayer dollars.” —Pete Hegseth
“If we want to truly regain the public’s trust, we can provide greater accountability and transparency with a simple step. Let’s start by communicating to our constituents about the votes we take.” —Melissa Bean
“We needed someone to recognize the importance of check and balances, accountability, transparency. There was a real systemic problem at South Carolina State, a problem that has gone on for 25 or 30 years.” —Gwen Ifill
“The merits of deeper debt cancellation, when accompanied by conditions of accountability and transparency on the part of recipient countries, have been shown to generate much needed resources for health, education and poverty reduction for some of the world’s poorest people.” —John Ricard
Quotes On Accountability And Success
“To function effectively, a business requires leaders who are accountable for driving success.” —Barry Linetsky
“At the end of the day we are accountable to ourselves – our success is a result of what we do.” —Catherine Pulsifer
“Any anti-bullying scheme, initiative or policy which fails to mention accountability for the bullies is likely to meet with little, and often no, success.” —Tim Field
“Each of the various tactics that have been tried to get Israel to budge.. nonviolent resistance, legal accountability, BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions).. has had some measure of success.” —Norman Finkelstein
“Accountability and self-responsibility are critical to our success in personal, professional and public life. However, we often look for those character traits in others, rather than inculcating them in ourselves.” —Vishwas Chavan
“You are the reason of your own good-luck and bad-luck; success and failure; happiness and pain. Your choices are responsible for your present. Don’t blame someone else for your sufferings or failures.” —Sanjeev Himachali
“Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility . . . . In the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have is the ability to take on responsibility.” —Michael Korda
“To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest level, then you have to be unselfish. Stay reachable. Stay in touch. Don’t isolate.” —Michael Jordan
“By far the most important factor in the success or failure of any school, far more important than tests or standards or business-model methods of accountability, is simply attracting the best-educated, most exciting young people into urban schools and keeping them there.” —Jonathan Kozol
“Try holding yourself accountable to yourself. If you had to give yourself a daily, weekly, or monthly report, would you be proud to talk about what you had done, or would you need to be prettying up things, bullsh***ing, or lying to keep your job?” —Loren Weisman, The Artist’s Guide to Success in the Music Business
Quotes about Accountability at Work
“Accountability only works if you want it to.” —Dillon Burroughs
“Accountability crumbles silos, boosts teamwork and collaboration, and strengthens camaraderie, creativity, resiliency, agility, trust, and communication.” —Mike Evans
“Every person’s work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of that person.” —Samuel Butler
“Creating a culture of integrity and accountability not only improves effectiveness, it also generates a respectful, enjoyable and life-giving setting in which to work.” —Tom Hanson
“When accountability is present, people keep their eyes on a very clear prize. They know what they are working toward and how they are going to get there.” —Henry J. Evans
“So what am I willing to do? Do my work heartily, unto the Lord. There is no higher accountability in life than to do something for God. So that’s kind of how I operate.” —Mark Richt
“My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.” —Indira Gandhi
“Building a culture in which people take accountability to deliver on its promises is hard work and can be difficult to accomplish. Only when every person is held accountable to themselves, their peers, and their shared possibility can the impossible become possible.” —Ginger Graham
Quotes about Accountability in Leadership for Leaders
“To function effectively, a business requires leaders who are accountable for driving success.” —Barry Linetsky
“Leadership happens at every level of the organization and no one can shirk from this responsibility.” —Jerry Junkins
“Real leadership involves clear communication, personal accountability, and a zest for bringing out the best in everyone!” —Farshad Asl
“To take responsibility for yourself as a leader and person; you need to learn to unlearn bad habits, and learn from your mistakes.” —Andrea Reibmayr
“Teams keep leaders accountable for the goal. Individuals connected to no one can change the goal without accountability.” —John C. Maxwell, The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork
“Truly accountable leadership is the only way to build an organization that can not only survive in our increasingly complicated world but also grow and thrive.” —Vince Molinaro, The Leadership Contract
“The benefit of truly accountable leaders is that they are able to create effective structures where their staff know what is expected of them and can improve the business for customers.” —Jane Storm
“In the years I’ve been thinking and talking about leadership, I’ve come to realize that the desperate need for accountable leaders is the fundamental challenge organizations are facing today.” —Vince Molinaro, The Leadership Contract
“Your organization needs great leaders at all levels, now more than ever. You need to be the best leader you can possibly be.” —Vince Molinaro, The Leadership Contract Field Guide: The Personal Roadmap to Becoming a Truly Accountable Leader
Team Accountability Quotes
“On good teams coaches hold players accountable, on great teams players hold players accountable.” —Joe Dumars
“Accountability crumbles silos, boosts teamwork and collaboration, and strengthens camaraderie, creativity, resiliency, agility, trust, and communication.” —Mike Evans
“Responsibility equals accountability equals ownership. And a sense of ownership is the most powerful weapon a team or organization can have. —Pat Summitt
“Individuals and teams have a sense of ownership, and are focused, disciplined and collaborative, while holding each other accountable for outcomes.” —Di Worrall, Accountability Leadership
“Teams keep leaders accountable for the goal. Individuals connected to no one can change the goal without accountability.” —John C. Maxwell, The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork
“360° accountability as an entrepreneur. You are held: accountable to God; accountable to your family; accountable to your team; accountable to your clients; accountable to yourself; accountable to your outcome.” —Farshad Asl
“I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.” —Mia Hamm
“The best kind of accountability on a team is peer-to-peer. Peer pressure is more efficient and effective than going to the leader, anonymously complaining, and having them stop what they are doing to intervene.” —Patrick Lencioni
Quotes About Accountability And Ownership
“Ownership: ‘A commitment of the head, heart, and hands to fix the problem and never again affix the blame.” —John G. Miller
“Responsibility equals accountability equals ownership. And a sense of ownership is the most powerful weapon a team or organization can have. —Pat Summitt
“We are reinventing ourselves as a company. Compaq is taking ownership of its customer relationships and accountability of our customer’s needs.” —Eckhard Pfeiffer
“Individuals and teams have a sense of ownership, and are focused, disciplined and collaborative, while holding each other accountable for outcomes.” —Di Worrall, Accountability Leadership
“To achieve life mastery and be worthy of a life well lived, we must take action, ownership, and responsibility for our choices. Our date with destiny is not about reaching a final destination. It is about how fully we live the journey.” —Will Craig
“The taxpayers deserve accountability.” —Byron Dorgan
“The accountability rests with me.” —Skip Prosser
“ACCOUNTABILITY, n. The mother of caution.” —Ambrose Bierce
“It was accountability that Nixon feared.” —Bob Woodward
“I made the decision. I’m accountable.” —Janet Reno
“A local company has more accountability.” —Paul Hawken
“The price of greatness is responsibility.” —Winston Churchill
“It means a lot. It means I’m accountable.” —Champ Bailey
“Accountability only works if you want it to.” —Dillon Burroughs
“Acknowledgment of torture is not accountability for it.” —Yousef Munayyer
“There is no accountability in soft money. None.” —Zach Wamp
“I think I’ve been a great citizen.” —O. J. Simpson
“To move the world, we must first move ourselves.” —Socrates
“Your life is what your thoughts make it.” —Marcus Aurelius
“Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.” —General Colin Powell
“Freedom is not the same as lack of accountability.” —Kevin Powers
“Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.” —Lao Tzu
“Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.” —Anita Brookner
“When they say accountability, they mean surveillance and standardization.” —Marc Lamont Hill
“Reciprocal accountability, or criticism [is] the only known antidote to error.” —David Brin
“Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.” —Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” —Thomas Jefferson
“Where there is no accountability, there will also be no responsibility.” —Sunday Adelaja
“Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right.” —Henry Ford
“We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.” —Khalil Gibran
“Accountability makes no sense when it undermines the larger goals of education.” —Diane Ravitch
“You cannot have democratic accountability in anything bigger than a nation state.” —Vaclav Klaus
“I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.” —Garrison Keillor
“So then each of us will give an account of himself to God.” —Thessalonians
“Intentions do not insulate us from the consequences of our actions.” —Jon D Harrison
“On one side of accountability is courage, on the other is freedom.” —Jean Hamilton-Fford
“Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be.” —Eleanor Roosevelt
“The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.” —Dwight D. Eisenhower
“I learned in an extremely hard way that the accountability falls with me.” —Stephen Baldwin
“You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.” —Leonardo da Vinci
“Take accountability… Blame is the water in which many dreams and relationships drown.” —Steve Maraboli
“It is not in the stars to hold our destiny, but in ourselves.” —William Shakespeare
“It is what it is, but it will become what you make it.” —Abraham Lincoln
“We’re building a culture of accountability, trust, and togetherness. Entitlement will not be tolerated.” —Brad Stevens
“Where the U.N. is concerned, accountability is very thin on the ground in general.” —Glenn Reynolds
“No one in the Emirates is above the law and accountability.” —Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum
“We must perfect a worldwide system of accountability for nuclear, biological and chemical weapons.” —Richard Lugar
“Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.” —Wendell Phillips
“I don’t think there are any men who are faithful to their wives.” —Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
“Make yourself accountable and your employees will hold themselves to a high standard.” —David J. Greer
“The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.” —Calvin Coolidge
“Restoring responsibility and accountability is essential to the economic and fiscal health of our nation.” —Carl Levin
“No individual can achieve worthy goals without accepting accountability for his or her own actions.” —Dan Miller
“Understanding the true meaning of accountability makes us strong and enables us to learn.” —Sameh Elsayed
“I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.” —William Ernest Henley
“Tackling climate change is a collective endeavour, it means collective accountability and it’s not too late.” —Christine Lagarde
“Deregulation has been, above all else, a means of reducing corporate business’s accountability to the public.” —Herbert Schiller
“Perhaps nothing in our society is more needed for those in positions of authority than accountability.” —Larry Burkett
“A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.” —Thomas Paine
“…if a man is not faithful to his own individuality, he cannot be loyal to anything.” —Claude Mckay
“Accountability is a key concept in moving an organization forward, especially in a challenging business climate.” —Cindy Tucker
“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Anyone can possess, anyone can profess, but it is an altogether different thing to confess.” —Shannon L. Alder
“With a company full of accountable people, extraordinary things, even the entirely unexpected, tend to happen.” —Roger Connors
“Accountability crumbles silos, boosts teamwork and collaboration, and strengthens camaraderie, creativity, resiliency, agility, trust, and communication.” —Mike Evans
“Don’t get up from the feast of life without paying for your share of it.” —W. R. Inge
“Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny.” —Paul Tillich
“My experience is that accountability is an extremely powerful tool to align an organization toward its objectives.” —Susan Gomez
“The internet brought many laudable things, but prosperity, stability, accountability and honest politics were not four of them.” —Bruce Sterling
“The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.” —Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“Grace does not cancel out our responsibility or accountability for the things God has given us to do.” —Mike Bickle
“You can make any promises as long as you are not going to be there to fulfill them.” —Pawan Mishra
“You steadily grow into becoming your best as you choose to be accountable and accept responsibility for improvement.” —Steve Shallenberger
“It amazes me that parents are allowed to raise kids. There’s so much power and often very little accountability.” —Ben Marcus
“The vast possibilities of our great future will become realities only if we make ourselves responsible for those realities.” —Gifford Pinchot
“We will seek to implement specific changes in the manufacturing and distribution practices to promote more responsibility and accountability.” —Kweisi Mfume
“India is at the vanguard of figuring out how to exploit technology and innovation on behalf of democratic accountability.” —Samantha Power
“The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely to be the one who dropped it.” —Lou Holtz
“Experience is not what happens to a man, it is what a man does with what happens to him.” —Aldous Huxley
“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.” —Maria Robinson
“There’s not a chance we’ll reach our full potential until we stop blaming each other and start practicing personal accountability.” —John Miller
“Ownership: ‘A commitment of the head, heart, and hands to fix the problem and never again affix the blame.” —John G. Miller
“I come from a world where accountability and accomplishments matter, and where titles and rhetoric take a back seat to results.” —Carly Fiorina
“We are reinventing ourselves as a company. Compaq is taking ownership of its customer relationships and accountability of our customer’s needs.” —Eckhard Pfeiffer
“Hell is the place for people who did not live their lives according to the best of what was in them.” —Harriet Rubin
“People can defame anyone they like, people can write anything they like. But non-accountability is a part of modern Indian culture.” —Salman Khurshid
“The irony of the matter is that the future generations do not have a vote. In effect, we hold their proxy.” —Charles J. Hitch
“Everything is about accountability to the American people, accountability of the executive branch … [and] accountability of the oversight of the Congress.” —Jay Rockefeller
“The pride of man hopes but to blame God for the evils of the world, and to praise himself for the good.” —Criss Jami
“As for the journey of life; at some point you will realize that you are the driver and you will drive.” —Steve Maraboli
“The only way we succeed as a group is not simply following directions, but in keeping each other accountable for our actions.” —A.J. Darkholme
“Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections.” —Archibald Alexander
“American liberty is premised on the accountability of free men and women for what they have done, not for what they may do.” —John Newman
“Why don’t we call on the credit card companies to be accountable? They need to be held accountable for their predatory lending practices.” —Paul Wellstone
“Blaming, whining, deflecting accountability, risk aversion, and resistance to change are but a handful of symptoms of the adversity-beaten individual and organization.” —Paul G. Stoltz
“There’s accountability in the mutual fund industry. And they’ve been tremendous engines of wealth for people and they’re going to continue to be so.” —Jim Cramer
“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
“Everyone knows about the substantive issues of concern, like federal health care, but very little is said about the process, the lack of accountability.” —Justin Amash
“The collapse of good conscience and the absence of accountability and public scrutiny have led to crimes against humanity and violations of international law.” —Nelson Mandela
“People now, especially with the Internet, are connected. They have an expectation of behaviour, of accountability, avoiding conflict and fair and just competition.” —Sri Mulyani Indrawati
“The plain, unvarnished truth is, that every one of us needs the accountability that comes from formal, regular, intimate relationships with other godly people.” —Wayne Mack
“To let oneself be bound by a duty from the moment you see it approaching, is a part of integrity that alone justifies responsibility.” —Dag Hammarskjold
“Everybody’s got the potential for great good and great wrong in them, but it’s the choices we make that define who we really are.” —Charles de Lint
“Track accountability is the best way to describe it. You’re looking to see which dog accounts for the most tracks in the smoothest manner.” —Edward Higgins White
“For many businesses, the fear behind their social media reluctance isn’t just fear of failure but of blame and accountability – both individual and collective.” —Jay Baer
“There’s no accountability anymore, Pierce, no one holds anyone accountable for what they do. It’s always someone else’s fault. Usually people just blame the victim.” —Meg Cabot
“I’m a person who promotes the concept of accountability to a great extent, and I’ve spoken in the Parliament and reinforced the need for accountability.” —Vijay Mallya
“An honest man is not accountable for the vice and folly of his trade, and therefore ought not to refuse the exercise of it.” —Michel de Montaigne
“If you are building a culture where honest expectations are communicated and peer accountability is the norm, then the group will address poor performance and attitudes.” —Henry Cloud
“The Postal Service needs tools to modernize and compete. That is why today I am a cosponsor of H.R. 22, the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act.” —Joe Baca
“The notion of accountability has emerged as a human tool to motivate people – do what you’re supposed to do or you’ll be held to account.” —Art Horn
“Americans deserve an attorney general that will be honest with them, they deserve an attorney general who will uphold the basic standards of political independence and accountability.” —John Cornyn
“But in Congress, accountability is just a catch phrase, usually directed elsewhere. Demands to personal responsibility or corporate accountability abound, but rarely congressional accountability or fiscal responsibility.” —Melissa Bean
“I’ve noticed throughout my long life that people with vested interest in things staying the way they are regularly insist that both change and accountability are impossible.” —Sarah Schulman
“It is in your best interest to recognize that there is a difference between being responsible and taking responsibility. You Have the Freedom and Power to Choose.” —Christopher Avery
“The corporation is the creature of the state. It should always be held accountable to some sovereign, and this accountability shoul be real and not a sham.” —Theodore Roosevelt
“Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. It is not something to be waited for, but rather something to be achieved.” —William Jennings Bryan
“Everything can be taken from a person but one thing: the last of human freedoms-to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances…to choose one’s own way.” —Victor Frankl
“In addition to demanding answers and accountability from the Veterans Administration, Congress had to act to ensure veterans do not suffer because of the actions of a federal agency.” —Doc Hastings
“It does not matter what party you are a member of in this great Nation of ours. Accountability and competence are characteristics that Americans value throughout our great land.” —Jim Costa
“Each player must accept the cards life deals him: but once they are in hand, he alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.” —Voltaire
“To be accountable means that we are willing to be responsible to another person for our behavior and it implies a level of submission to another’s opinions and viewpoints.” —Wayde Goodall
“A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.” —John Stuart Mill
“The most important quality I look for in a player is accountability. You’ve got to be accountable for who you are. It’s too easy to blame things on someone else.” —Lenny Wilkens
“Republicans are pushing legislation forward that will improve the effectiveness of and bring more accountability to U.S. foreign assistance around the world and bring democracy even further into the light.” —Virginia Foxx
“I believe in the soul. Furthermore, I believe, it is prompt accountability for one’s choices, a willing acceptance of responsibility for one’s thoughts, behavior, and actions that makes it powerful.” —Alice Walker
“A wrong decision can make me very miserable. But I have trust in God. If you have this trust you don’t have to worry, as you don’t have sole responsibility.” —Alfred Thompson
“One of the biggest lessons I’ve learned about habit development is that you need accountability to stick to a major goal. It’s not enough to make a personal commitment.” —S. J. Scott
“To begin by always thinking of love as an action rather than a feeling is one way in which anyone using the word in this manner automatically assumes accountability and responsibility.” —Bell Hooks
“It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.” —The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith
“You will not experience dramatic change in your struggle as long as you use accountability to describe your sins instead of declaring your need for help in the midst of temptation.” —Heath Lambert
“To be accountable or to be a victim is one of those elemental decisions that everyone needs to make. Simply, the former leads you to a happier and more rewarding life.” —Rob Pitfield
“The time has come to carry accountability forward, to take it offline and into the real world. To share our lives with just a few people we really, truly, honestly trust.” —Craig Gross
“We cannot have a just society that applies the principle of accountability to the powerless and the principle of forgiveness to the powerful. This is the America in which we currently reside.” —Chris Hayes
“As the world becomes more environmentally aware, I believe that we must as individuals recognize the magnificence of our natural world, and feel a sense of accountability for our actions which affect it.” —Bob Irwin
“’No Child Left Behind’ requires states and school districts to ensure that all students are learning and are reaching their highest potential. Special education students should not be left out of these accountability mechanisms.” —Dianne Feinstein
“So what am I willing to do? Do my work heartily, unto the Lord. There is no higher accountability in life than to do something for God. So that’s kind of how I operate.” —Mark Richt
“Some want, to be exempt. They do not want to excel, they do not want to exert. They want to be considered excellent, for desiring to be held exempt, from all accountability.” —Justin K. McFarlane Beau
“Another cause for the increase in alienation and cynicism is a feeling that too many policy decisions that affect individuals have been taken out of any system that has accountability or that they can influence.” —Robert Teeter
“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
“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
“Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.” —Thomas Carlyle
“If something is being done on a secret basis in national security, that’s a great reason for elected officials to not talk about it. And that’s a great way to shirk accountability for it with the public.” —Rachel Maddow
“No one is perfect, and we all understand that, but when we decide to make that lifelong commitment, we need to weigh the cost and know God is holding us accountable for the commitments we make.” —Dr. Kenton D. Wiley
“My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.” —Indira Gandhi
“Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts which we have wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do.” —Gian Carlo Menotti
“I am a passionate believer in freedom of speech. I would not support anything which would impinge on aggressive robust freedom of the British press, but when things go wrong and there has been outright illegality, there should be proper accountability.” —Nick Clegg
“This strongly asserted but ill-defined license to kill without accountability is not an entitlement which the United States or other states can have without doing grave damage to the rules designed to protect the right to life and prevent extrajudicial executions.” —Philip Alston
“You see so many artists who are so talented end up living sad, empty lives. This industry takes so much out of you that without the accountability and leaving God in the center, you can be left so empty and void.” —Stacie Orrico
“Building a culture in which people take accountability to deliver on its promises is hard work and can be difficult to accomplish. Only when every person is held accountable to themselves, their peers, and their shared possibility can the impossible become possible.” —Ginger Graham
“To achieve life mastery and be worthy of a life well lived, we must take action, ownership, and responsibility for our choices. Our date with destiny is not about reaching a final destination. It is about how fully we live the journey.” —Will Craig
“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
“It is a very unusual sector and the one thing I would ask of them is to understand that for most of them one-third of their films are being financed by the taxpayer and that carries huge accountability and responsibility.” —Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley
“In order to escape accountability for his crimes, the perpetrator does everything in his power to promote forgetting. If secrecy fails, the perpetrator attacks the credibility of his victim. If he cannot silence her absolutely, he tries to make sure no one listens.” —Judith Lewis Herman
“If I could give one tip for people – it’s not an exercise or nutrition regimen. It’s to walk your talk and believe in yourself, because at the end of the day, the dumbbell and diet don’t get you in shape. It’s your accountability to your word.” —Brett Hoebel
“To reverence the impersonal creation instead of the personal God who created us is a perversion designed for escaping moral accountability to the Creator. God indicts those who worship the creation instead of its Creator (Rom 1:18-23); and warns of the corruption of morals and behavior which results.” —Dave Hunt
“Moral conduct includes every thing in which men are active and for which they are accountable. They are active in their desires, their affections, their designs, their intentions, and in every thing they say and do of choice; and for all these things they are accountable to God.” —Nathanael Emmons
“Theres simply anger over the accountability that Yelp brings and also this feeling of powerlessness because so much power is now being put in the hands of the consumer. But the important thing that gets lost with some of these business owners who are very upset with us is its the whole picture that counts.” —Jeremy Stoppelman