Quotes about Accountability

Where trust is absent, leadership falters.

The way you take control of the direction of your life is to take responsibility for yourself and your everyday actions.

Even the most noble endeavors fail with immoral leadership.

Every time we make an excuse, we fail to learn from our mistakes.

Leaders who are effective are leaders who are disciplined in their daily lives.

I love the story about the shortest letter to the editor written to England's newspaper the Daily Mail. When the editor invited readers to send in their answers to the question, "What's wrong with the world?" writer G. K. Chesterton is reputed to have sent the following: Dear Sir, I am. Yours sincerely, G. K. Chesterton.

I have had to let go of my need to be right and focus on the greater need to do right.

Tomorrow's opportunity is determined by yesterday's responsibility.

Good leaders never embrace a victim mentality. They recognize that who and where they are remain their responsibility—not that of their parents, their spouses, their children, the government, their bosses, or their coworkers.

The question is not, "Will my calendar be full?" but "Who will fill my calendar?" If we are leaders of others, the question is not, "Will I see people?" but "Who will I see?"

We should work on changing ourselves before trying to improve others. A great danger to good leadership is the temptation to try to change others without first making changes to yourself.

We don't get to pick our talents or IQ. But we do choose our character. In fact, we create it every time we make choices—to cop out or dig out of a hard situation, to bend the truth or stand under the weight of it, to take the easy money or pay the price.