Accountability Quotes

314 quotes by 268 authors

If I know the way home and am walking along it drunkenly, is it any less the right way because I am staggering from side… — Leo Tolstoy
A brotherly person rejoices on my account when he approves me, but when he disapproves, he is loving me. To such people I will reveal… — Saint Augustine
Dignity is the reward of holding oneself accountable to conscience. — Wes Fesler
When you call us, ladies and gentlemen, just so you know, we do have your phone number, and if you say anything untoward, obscene, or… — Bill O'Reilly
Leadership happens at every level of the organization and no one can shirk from this responsibility. — Unknown Author
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… — Josiah Stamp
Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account. — Benjamin Franklin
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… — Mark Twain
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… — 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,… — Eleanor Roosevelt
The twin sister to autonomy and freedom is responsibility and accountability. You cannot have one with out the other. If someone is given an area… — Henry Cloud
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
There is an absence of democratic accountability and control in every sphere of government and the state. To address this debilitating legacy requires determined action… — Nelson Mandela
Culture is not just an ornament; it is the expression of a nation's character, and at the same time it is a powerful instrument to… — W. Somerset Maugham
The realization of the self is only possible if one is productive, if one can give birth to one's own potentialities. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Healing of the world's woes will not come through this or that social or political theory; not through violent changes in government, but in the… — Unknown Author
The key to growth is to learn to make promises and to keep them. — Stephen Covey
On why I don't trust democracy without extremely powerful systems of accountability and recall What seems to be generosity is often only disguised ambition -… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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… — Dave Hunt
Never promise more than you can perform. — Publilius Syrus

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