Quotes about accountability
Israelmore Ayivor - The Great Hand Book of Quotes
Never wake up waiting to hear a command from someone before you make a move be responsible! Never repeat what made you to waste an hour of yesterday be accountable!
Noreena Hertz -
Transparency, accountability and sustainability have become the slogans of the market leaders. Companies carry out environmental and social audits to court the consumer, and even the bluest chips woo organisations such as Greenpeace and Amnesty.
Simon Mainwaring -
The keys to brand success are self-definition, transparency, authenticity and accountability.
Brie Larson -
Maybe you're not perfect, but you're willing to actually look at yourself and take some kind of accountability. That's a change. It might not mean that you can turn everything around, but I think there's something incredibly hopeful about that.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah -
to be right in the wrong direction may be wrong what then is the wrong direction?
Sameh Elsayed -
We are all accountable for our actions their affect and influence on our lives and the lives of others. Understanding the true meaning of accountability makes us strong and enables us to learn
Steve Maraboli - and Being Free
As for the journey of life at some point you will realize that YOU are the driver and you will drive!
Steve Maraboli -
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 - and Being Free
Never compromise your values.
Brené Brown - The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
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 behavior or a choice.
Kerry E. Wagner -
you don't have to worry about burning bridges, if you're building your own
Simone Weil -
We have to endure the discordance between imagination and fact. It is better to say, “I am suffering,” than to say, “This landscape is ugly.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah -
There is just one true God (I AM), and He is the giver of life! We have just one lifetime chance to live life! Let us therefore devote our one lifetime to His service, in truth and in spirit, loving Him fully with our lips, mind and heart, no matter what, with all necessary humility, courage and true understanding, knowing that regardless who we are, as we live or when death ends our journey of life, we remain accountable to the giver of life!
Rob Liano -
When people say "If I only knew then what I know now" makes me wonder why they aren't using that wisdom now.
Steve Maraboli - and Being Free
The right thing to do and the hard thing to do are usually the same.
Steve Maraboli - Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
If you hang out with chickens, you're going to cluck and if you hang out with eagles, you're going to fly.
Brené Brown - and Lead
Vulnerability is the birthplace of love, belonging, joy, courage, empathy, and creativity. It is the source of hope, empathy, accountability, and authenticity. If we want greater clarity in our purpose or deeper and more meaningful spiritual lives, vulnerability is the path.
Alaric Hutchinson -
Bravery is the choice to show up and listen to another person, be it a loved one or perceived foe, even when it is uncomfortable, painful, or the last thing you want to do.
Sunday Adelaja - spending time or investing time?
Anytime that cannot be accounted for is a wasted time.
Augustine of Hippo - Confessions
Do they desire to join me in thanksgiving when they hear how, by your gift, I have come close to you, and do they pray for me when they hear how I am held back by my own weight? ...A brotherly mind will love in me what you teach to be lovable, and will regret in me what you teach to be regrettable. This is a mark of a Christian brother's mind, not an outsider's--not that of 'the sons of aliens whose mouth speaks vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of iniquity' (Ps. 143:7 f.). A brotherl
David Klinghoffer -
The problem with ID, of course, is that it leaves open the possibility that the intelligence behind nature may have a moral interest in us, having communicated already with humanity in the past, and might try to boss you around in your private af
Akiroq Brost -
Take your beliefs into your everyday life. Practice what you preach. Self-observe. Correct. Try. Keep trying. Never give up.
Haroutioun Bochnakian - The Human Consensus and The Ultimate Project Of Humanity
Until now, human organization could only be based upon something negative which could not be conquered: SCARCITY, and something false: PERSONAL ACCOUNTABILITY... No wonder instead of producing stability, it produced the exact opposite.The current human organization based upon dealing with the consequences of scarcity and being considered responsible for our individual characteristics which we could never have chosen (our nature, our nurture, our “soul”, and all the choices they engender), will a
Steve Maraboli -
Take accountability... Blame is the water in which many dreams and relationships drown.
Tom Robbins - Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas
If every time we choose a turd, society, at a great expense, simply allows us to redeem it for a pepperoni, then not only will we never learn to make smart choices, we will also surrender the freedom to choose, because a choice without consequences is no choice at all.
Criss Jami -
On the whole the modern world has been conditioned to have a chip on its shoulder against devoutly religious people. I disagree with this in some instances - particularly in, believe it or not, matters of integrity. Deep down I often rather believe the man who honestly thinks - or better yet even, prefers - that he has an omnipotent Judge breathing down his neck, holding his every word and his every move accountable, than the man who much like his modern peers, and ironically enough, claims or w
Edward Lewellen -
Things are as they should be at this moment. When you accept that, you become responsible for everything you have and are. You then hold the power to change your future!
Jane Austen - Emma
With such a worshipping wife, it was hardly possible that any natural defects in it should not be increased. The extreme sweetness of her temper must hurt his.
bell hooks - All About Love: New Visions
As more people have found the courage to break through shame and speak about woundedness in their lives, we are now subjected to a mean-spirited cultural response, where all talk of woundedness is mocked. The belittling of anyone's attempt to name a context within which they were wounded, were made a victim, is a form of shaming. It is psychological terrorism. Shaming breaks our hearts. All individuals who are genuinely seeking well-being within a healing context realize that it is important to
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah -
There shall always be a day and a night until the world meets its ebb and we shall always hope to sleep and wake up to see another day! Such is called life! So many people have life, but, few people are living. We shall continue to exist from dawn to dusk having life and living or just having life!
Farshad Asl -
360° AccountabilityAs an Entrepreneur, you are held: Accountable to GodAccountable to Your FamilyAccountable to Your TeamAccountable to Your ClientsAccountable to YourselfAccountable to Your Outcome
Shannon L. Alder -
Sometimes, we expect life to work a certain way and when it doesn’t we blame others or see it as a sign, rather than face the pain of the choices we should or shouldn’t have made. Real healing won’t begin until we stop saying, “God prevented this or that.” Often in our attempt to protect ourselves from pain, we leave things to fate and don’t take chances. Or, we don’t work hard enough to keep the blessings we are given. Maybe, we didn't recognize a blessing, until it was too late. Often, it is t
Cheryl Hersha - Secret Weapons: How Two Sisters Were Brainwashed To Kill For Their Country
Dr. Talbon was struck by another very important thing. It all hung together. The stories Cheryl told — even though it was upsetting to think people could do stuff like that — they were not disjointed They were not repetitive in terms of "I've heard this before". It was not just she'd someone trying consciously or unconsciously to get attention. really processed them out and was done with them. She didn't come up with them again [after telling the story once and dealing with it]. Once it was done
John Vasconcellos -
From those to whom privilege and opportunity are given, we have the right to expect much.
Saidi Mdala - Know What Matters
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.
David Pietrusza - 1960--LBJ vs. JFK vs. Nixon: The Epic Campaign That Forged Three Presidencies
Organizing a coup was not the same as wanting one.
Aberjhani - and Essays
Democracy is not simply a license to indulge individual whims and proclivities. It is also holding oneself accountable to some reasonable degree for the conditions of peace and chaos that impact the lives of those who inhabit one’s beloved extended community.
Courtney Lynch -
Leaders inspire accountability through their ability to accept responsibility before they place blame.
Rob Liano -
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.
Robert Wesley Miller -
ITS nomimal without all on transfer of regard, that weight of a measure of lines cannot be equal in comparison. The want of privacy is a need of personality not character. Only through devotional love not modernity can you coolect the past, present and future. Timeless is not what you think or hear. Patience is not any big reveal. Never see make how all free?
Judith "Jack" Halberstam -
To tell a ghost story means being willing to be haunted.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah -
The spirit is willing but the body is weakLead us then our Savoir that we may not slumberOh Jehovah! Oh Jehovah!Thy strength we beseech to get to the endSo we may render a good account of our arduous journey to the endThe spirit is willing but the body is weakLead us then our Savoir that we may not slumberWell done, good and faithful servants you shall sayUnto they that shall be faithful with a few things in their days.Come and share your Master’s happiness you shall sayUnto they that diligently
Craig D. Lounsbrough -
There’s not much that I can find in places where there is nothing to find. However, to avoid facing God I find myself spending a lot of time in those very places.
Aberjhani - and Essays
Individuals often turn to poetry, not only to glean strength and perspective from the words of others, but to give birth to their own poetic voices and to hold history accountable for the catastrophes rearranging their lives.
Melvin Udall played by Jack Nicholson in AS GOOD AS IT GETS. -
Receptionist: How do you write women so well?Melvin Udall: I think of a man, and I take away reason and accountability.
Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy in America
A central administration enervates the nations in which it exists by incessantly diminishing their public spirit. If such an administration succeeds in convincing all the disposable resources of a people, it impairs at least the renewal of those resources.
Michael Pollan - In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
[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.
Robert A. Heinlein - Stranger in a Strange Land
He had learned that close-held secrets could often be cracked by going all the way to the top and there making himself unbearably unpleasant. He knew that such twisting of the tiger's tail was dangerous, for he understood the psychopathology of great power.
Richelle E. Goodrich - Slaying Dragons
God cries for us in the same way we cry for others. His tears most often spill over for the pain and suffering caused from the mortal misuse of a gift called agency. He will not revoke the gift. It was promised to us for the duration of our time on Earth. But He will hold each one of us accountable in the end for how we applied this power of agency.
DaShanne Stokes -
A president cannot defend a nation if he is not held accountable to its laws.
Gautama Buddha -
Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.
Les Brown -
Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.
Farshad Asl - and Clarity
Always know that you are being held accountable for your actions, by your friends, family, coworkers, and most importantly, by God. Lead by example and build a team of successful people around you. By being the dependable person, success is naturally attracted to you.
Jon Acuff - and Never Get Stuck
People who can't be questioned often end up doing questionable things.
Rob Liano -
If you think someone or something other than yourself is responsible for your happiness or success, I'd guess you're not that happy or successful.
Sunday Adelaja - The Mountain of Ignorance
If people in the position of power are not made to be accountable, then, ungodliness, injustice and oppression will continue to be the order of the day in the society.
Criss Jami -
Some of the most polished ideas are discovered through healthy, honest debate, so if you don't argue with yourself every once in a while, other people will gladly point out if, in any sense, you missed a spot.
Bill Bullard -
Opinion is really the lowest form of human knowledge. It requires no accountability, no understanding. The highest form of knowledge… is empathy, for it requires us to suspend our egos and live in another’s world. It requires profound purpose larger than the self kind of understanding.
Steven Erikson - Fall of Light
From faith,’ replied Emral Lanear, ‘do we not seek guidance?’ ‘Guidance, or the organized assembly and reification of all the prejudices you collectively hold dear?’ ‘You would not speak to us!’ ‘I grew to fear the power of words – their power, and their powerlessness. No matter how profound or perceptive, no matter how deafening their truth, they are helpless to defend themselves. I could have given you a list. I could have stated, in the simplest terms, that this is how I want you to behave, a
Criss Jami - Healology
Reality. It is sometimes brought through foreign eyes; because if you do not know any better, you cannot see the worse (and vice versa).
Shannon L. Alder -
When you settle for anything short of the best life God wants to offer you, then you have been tempted to remain safe and the accountability for not changing your life becomes your prison of regret.
Steve Maraboli -
For most people, blaming others is a subconscious mechanism for avoiding accountability. In reality, the only thing in your way is YOU.
Dee Dee Artner -
Blaming others is an act of refusing to take responsibility. When a person can’t accept the fact or the reality, they blamed another person or the situation instead of taking accountability.
Michael Brent Jones - Dinner Party
Every word appears in our mind as a composite of everything else we associate with it. We by default personify every word, because in each of our minds, when we think of a certain person, there is one word that is the biggest part of that composite image. If I said swimming, singing or story telling each word is personified by someone different in each of our minds. It is very important to not let hate, treachery or any negative thing be personified by anyone in our mind, also not to give any re
Craig D. Lounsbrough -
It’s really a rather simple thing to bring balance to my anger. All I need to do is remember that the ‘hand of cards’ that have been dealt to me pale in comparison to the ‘deck of cards’ that I’ve thrown at others.
Alex Latimer - The Space Race
If untruths become part of our language—untruths that in context are intended to be interpreted as polite expressions or figure of speech—then each person is left to decide for themselves the meaning of any sentence. And when language and meaning become subjective, society breaks down. The rule of law becomes a grey area. Commands become suggestions. And how do you keep anyone, including yourself, accountable for actions based on ambiguous language?
C. JoyBell C. -
Incredible how so many people have no sense of honor. How does this happen? This happens by thriving on how one appears to the world around him rather than cultivating a person inside him that he knows is honorable and that he can be proud of. When all the focus is on what people think about you based upon your facebook profile or based upon the exterior that you put on everyday; you leave no room for looking at yourself and saying, "I want to look into the mirror every day and see someone that
Craig D. Lounsbrough -
What I’ve yet to realize is that each time I work to avoid that which I fear, I have in that very same action forfeited the blessings that my fear blinded me to. And I’ve yet to realize that with God, the blessings will always and forever eclipse whatever I fear despite how absolutely imposing those fears might be
Jean Hamilton-Fford - Play.Create.Succeed.
On one side of accountability is courage, on the other is freedom.
Auliq-Ice -
Always count the costs before starting any journey, and never take a step without finding its costs.
Nick Payne -
In the quantum multiverse, every choice, every decision you've ever and never made exists in an unimaginably vast ensemble of parallel universes.
Kamal Ravikant - Live Your Truth
Reach out, share your truth, tell someone, "This is who I am. This is what I stand for. Hold me to it." Often, we'll do far more for another than we will do for ourselves.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah - The Untapped Wonderer in You: Dare to Do the Undone
If God gives you a seed, He expects you to plant it;if He plants it for you, He expects you to water it; if He waters it for you, He expects you to prune it; if He prunes and keeps it for you, He expects you to harvest it; if He harvest it for you, He expects you to store it; if He stores it for you,He expects you to keep it safe from getting rotten and if He keeps it from getting rotten for you, He expects you to account for the seed.Yes!Life is all about purposefully fulfilling a purpose. We a
Shannon L. Alder -
Sometimes your belief system is really your fears attached to rules.
Ron Garan - The Orbital Perspective: Lessons in Seeing the Big Picture from a Journey of 71 Million Miles
Open collaboration encourages greater accountability, which in turn fosters trust.
Tony Dovale -
I saw the figure of 178 Billion wasted/stolen from the people of a country by its corrupt and inept government. Such a figure could truly transform the entire country; education, health, roads, schooling, entrepreneurial environment... of millions of people, rather than be secreted away as a few more 0000's in global bank accounts for the greeders.We need to Rethink Public Service, Values, Ethics and Leadership.
Thomas Paine -
A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.
Andrew Zolli - Resilience: Why Things Bounce Back
In populations experiencing trauma across a wide variety of settings, the portion of those experiencing ongoing PTSD is remarkably similar – one third. Ecclesiastes says woe to him who falls alone, but that the cord of THREE strands is not easily broken. Apparently deep in our human wiring is the resilience to be a buttress for those feeling overcome.
Vishwas Chavan - Vishwasutras: Universal Principles for Living: Inspired by Real-Life Experiences
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.
Saidi Mdala - Know What Matters
As you grow older, start using your brains, energy, and the means available to you, however little they may seem, to go after what you need to get better, so that you can have what you want to live the the life you desire.
Carlos Wallace - The Other 99 T.Y.M.E.S: Train Your Mind to Enjoy Serenity
We must learn to choose between lining our bank accounts and being accountable for our future.
J.R. Young -
There is nothing more valuable in the writing process than a friend to hold you accountable to your own potential.
Suzette R. Hinton -
Your humility is what secures your future and there is nothing like accountability partners who keep you real.
Emily Thorne -
Absolution is the most powerful form of forgiveness. A full pardon from suspicion and accountability. It's the liberation of a stolen future. A future my father never lived to see. Absolution is a mercy the people who killed him will never know.
Rob Liano -
Yesterday is the history chapter in the book of life, isn't it time you turned the page?
Leo Tolstoy -
Not in order to justify, but simply in order to explain my lack of consistency, I say: Look at my present life and then at my former life, and you will see that I do attempt to carry them out. It is true that I have not fulfilled one thousandth part of them [Christian precepts], and I am ashamed of this, but I have failed to fulfill them not because I did not wish to, but because I was unable to. Teach me how to escape from the net of temptations that surrounds me, help me and I will fulfill the
Daniel Waterman -
Introduction of rational standards to differentiate between acceptable and unacceptable forms of drug related conduct allows us to hold drug users fully accountable for any harm resulting from irresponsible, stupid or ‘anti-social’ drug use in a manner consistent with current alcohol and tobacco policies, and more importantly, in a manner consistent with our commitment to the principles of liberty, freedom of choice and so on.
Haroutioun Bochnakian -
Individual free choices” can only be the expression of an “individual free will”.The notion of an “individual free will” generating “individual free choices” creates a much needed consequence: personal accountability.Personal accountability is vital for a primitive, immature human organization based on reprehension or praise.The permanent interaction of a unique inherited Nature (and maybe a unique “soul”) with a unique nurture (environment), will always determine all our “individual free choice
Unarine Ramaru -
Change can never be good until you face it head-on.
Erna Paris - Lies and History
In our tribunal, we look only at personal criminal responsibility in a very tightly defined, narrow way and we demand proof beyond a resonable doubt about the involvement of the individual. We do no have a mandate to establish the moral responsibility of those who saw things happen and did nothing, including people who might have had the capacity to stop the process and did nothing. But we have to be careful in thinking that just because we focus on individual criminal guilt we therefore absolve
Diane Chamberlain - and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder from Military Commanders
What do I want now? I want to be treated with the respect I deserve in the current VA system and not be retraumatized. I want the men who did this to me to be punished and if that isn't possible, I want reassurance what happened to me will never ever happen to another woman in the Armed services. I want some restitution of the damage I have.
Widad Akreyi -
Lack of accountability weakens the environmental and health rights of citizens; it damages peace- building and reconciliation initiatives; impedes the implementation of global health policies; leads to the loss of ecosystems and biodiversity; and weakens democracy, justice, human rights, and international security.
Craig D. Lounsbrough -
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.
Avina Celeste -
We choose to remain angry. Someone else may have initiated the anger but we choose whether we remain in this state or not.
Brandon Stanton - Humans of New York
Just because you're an adult doesn't mean you're grown up. Growing up means being patient, holding your temper, cutting out the self-pity, and quitting with the righteous indignation.''Why do so many people seem to love righteous indignation?''Because if you can prove you're a victim, all rules are off. You can lash out at people. You don't have to be accountable for anything.
Navonne Johns -
Character is less about what we do wrong And All about what we make right....
Gary Hopkins -
When a bully is held accountable for his actions, his future actions will change. Bad behavior only continues for those who allow it.
Garry Wills - Bomb Power: The Modern Presidency and the National Security State
Accountability is the essence of democracy. If people do not know what their government is doing, they cannot be truly self-governing. The national security state assumes the government secrets are too important to be shared, that only those in the know can see classified information, that only the president has all the facts, that we must simply trust that our rulers of acting in our interest.
Michael Bassey Johnson -
We do not owe any soul, except that which played the most vital role in our lives.