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Quotes on 'accountability'

Welcome to our collection of quotes on accountability. Whether you're seeking to inspire personal growth or looking for wisdom to foster a culture of responsibility within your organization, these quotes will guide and motivate you. Gain insights from renowned figures such as John F. Kennedy, Benjamin Franklin, and Brene Brown as they share their perspectives on the importance of owning up to our actions, making a difference, and striving for excellence. From personal accountability to holding others accountable, these quotes will remind you of the power and impact of taking responsibility.

Every decision you make, you got to stand on that decision. Read Summary

Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous! Read Summary

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do. Read Summary

Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will be judged by only one thing-the result. Read Summary

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong. Read Summary

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching. Read Summary

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny. Read Summary

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month. Read Summary

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.' Read Summary

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. Read Summary

You can't talk your way out of problems you behave yourself into. Read Summary

Accountability breeds response-ability. Read Summary

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. Read Summary

Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences. Read Summary

Nobody was ever meant, To remember or invent, What he did with every cent. Read Summary

Well, I screwed it up real good, didn't I? Read Summary

You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates. Read Summary

I let the American people down. Read Summary

I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate. Read Summary

Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals. Read Summary