Accountability Quotes

All corporatism - even when practised in societies where hard work, enterprise and cooperation are as highly valued as in Korea - encourages inflexibility, discourages individual accountability, and risks magnifying errors by concealing them.

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.

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.

Never promise more than you can perform.

It was accountability that Nixon feared.

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.

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

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

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

Dignity is the reward of holding oneself accountable to conscience.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!

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.

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

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

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

When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.

The collapse of good conscience and the absence of accountability and public scrutiny have led to crimes against humanity and violations of international law.

Good men are bound by conscience and liberated by accountability.

When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else.

Having authority implies accountability. If you reject the blame for failures under your watch, people reject your leadership.

If we want unity, we must all be unifiers. If we want accountability, each of us must be accountable for all we do.

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

Trust, honesty, humility, transparency and accountability are the building blocks of a positive reputation. Trust is the foundation of any relationship.

Every day we have a choice. We can take the easier road, the more cynical road, which is a road sometimes based on a dream of a past that never was, fear of each other, distancing and blame, or we can take the much more difficult path, the road of transformation, transcendence, compassion, and love, but also accountability and justice.

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.

There's responsibility, but there's also accountability. You have to be accountable for your actions. You have to stand at your locker when things are going bad.

Accountability only works if you want it to.

It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one's acts.

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

Accountability breeds response-ability.

It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.

No individual can achieve worthy goals without accepting accountability for his or her own actions.

You can't talk about leadership without talking about responsibility and accountability...you can't separate the two. A leader must delegate responsibility and provide the freedom to make decisions, and then be held accountable for the results.

Responsibility equals accountability equals ownership. And a sense of ownership is the most powerful weapon a team or organization can have.

On good teams coaches hold players accountable, on great teams players hold players accountable

Accountability is the glue that ties commitment to the result.

The key to growth is to learn to make promises and to keep them.

A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.

I think the most exciting thing is access to information. People's ability to document things and expose things that may have not otherwise been documented and exposed. All the information you want is available instantly, which is overwhelming, but I think can have a positive change on the political process and accountability for leaders and corporations.

One of the keys to ensuring accountability is to have civil servants who witness fraud, waste and abuse to blow the whistle.

But the lack of faith could just as well be a crutch for non-believers, allowing them to live their lives without any concept of accountability and giving them some sort of false confidence. The different is that while Catholicism has an abundance of intellectual underpinnings to support its arguments, anti-Catholicism and atheist have few if any.

Creating a high-functioning education system requires all the strategies involved in building high-functioning organisations anywhere. It requires a deliberate and aggressive strategy to ensure extraordinary talent at every level of the system, from the superintendentcy to district offices to principalships to classrooms. It requires building systems for accountability; offering parents the ability to choose their public schools is the ultimate form of this. It requires building a strong culture at the system and school levels based on high expectations for student achievement.

Leadership has to be focused on some very radical ideas that only we as 21st Century people can talk about: making sure people have a livelihood, making sure people receive a living wage, making sure the environment, the Mother Earth, is embraced and cherished and not destroyed. Making sure people are healthy in what they eat, making sure we hold people and corporations accountable for the damage they do not only to our environment but to our institutions.