Quotes about Accountability

As long as you try your best, you are never a failure. That is, unless you blame others.

Make a decision! Failure to act is often the biggest failure of all.

Leaders, true leaders, take responsibility for the success of the team and understand that they must also take responsibility for the failure.

What people are afraid of isn't failure. It's blame. Criticism.

For a person to be truly discipled and growing in their faith, they need more than one person discipling them.

Those who have put out the people's eyes, reproach them of their blindness.

Firm they might have stood, yet fell; remember, and fear to transgress.

So having said, he thus to Eve in few: Say Woman, what is this which thou hast done? To whom sad Eve with shame nigh overwhelm'd, Confessing soon, yet not before her Judge Bold or loquacious, thus abasht repli'd. The Serpent me beguil'd and I did eate.

Had anyone written and divulged erroneous things and scandalous to honest life, misusing and forfeiting the esteem had of his reason among men, if after conviction this only censure were adjudged him that he should never henceforth write

Fix the problem, not the blame.

After the signing of the Constitution, Benjamin Franklin was asked by a woman on the street, "What have you given us, sir?" Franklin Responded, "A Republic, if you can keep it." A critical moment in history has come; our Republic is in jeopardy. Can we keep it? If the answer to that question, as I fear, is "no," then we have no one to blame but ourselves.

Because others have let us down, it is now our duty to face the hard truths and do the right thing--no matter the personal cost.