Accountability Quotes

"Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a problem they can't solve and it comes up to you, listen to both sides and then pick one or the other. This places solid accountability on the winner to make it work. Condition your people to avoid compromise."
Robert Townsend

"My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you I the best place for the next moment."
Oprah Winfrey

"To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end in life."
Spinoza

"There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is, not to be true to the best one knows."
Farrar

"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

"It means a lot. It means I'm accountable."
Champ Bailey

"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

"Good men prefer to be accountable."
Michael Edwardes

"A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last."
Joseph Fort Newton

"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

Don't get up from the feast of life without paying for your share of it."
W. R. Inge

"You don't choose the day you enter the world and you don't chose the day you leave. It's what you do in between that makes all the difference."
Anita Septimus

"You are accountable for your actions, your decisions, your life;
no one else is, but you."
Catherine Pulsifer

"My belief is that personal freedom cannot grow beyond personal responsibility. The more people that learn to be fully accountable for their lives, the more freedom each of us can enjoy and the more fulfilling all of our lives will be."
Reed Konsler

"God does not want us to do extraordinary things; He wants us to do ordinary things extraordinarily well."
Bishop Gore

"When the people become involved in their government, government becomes more accountable, and our society is stronger, more compassionate, and better prepared for the challenges of the future."
Arnold Schwarzenegger

"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."
Nathaniel Emmons

"Remember that you are unique. If that has not been fulfilled, then something wonderful has been lost."
Martha Graham

"He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else."
Benjamin Franklin

"The person you have to account to is you. You should never try to mold yourself to meet anyone else's desires, or views."
Catherine Pulsifer, from Who Do You Account To