Accountability Quotes

In our tribunal, we look only at personal criminal responsibility in a very tightly defined, narrow way and we demand proof beyond a resonable doubt about the involvement of the individual. We do no have a mandate to establish the moral responsibility of those who saw things happen and did nothing, including people who might have had the capacity to stop the process and did nothing. But we have to be careful in thinking that just because we focus on individual criminal guilt we therefore absolve the community. The old distinctions are too simplistic when we move up the chain of command and witness the merging of the collectivity into the personae of these charismatic political and military leaders.'-Louise Arbour, Chief Prosecutor for International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia

~ Erna Paris

Lack of accountability weakens the environmental and health rights of citizens; it damages peace- building and reconciliation initiatives; impedes the implementation of global health policies; leads to the loss of ecosystems and biodiversity; and weakens democracy, justice, human rights, and international security.

~ Widad Akreyi

There are so many things we expect God to do: lead us, bring good people into our life, give us a life of abundance, make us happy, fix our problems, fix other people, triumph over our enemies, etc. However, why do so many people think they will get any of this if they choose not to live righteously? If you choose to hurt other people and not take any responsibility for it or live your life as if everyone else is the problem, except you then God is going to lead you back to the same people, same places, same situations so you can fix the same problem you ran from. God is not standing in your future telling you to forget what you did. He is standing in front of you telling you to go back and undo what you did! He leads you to places that change who you are. He doesn't lead you to places to forget who you are.

~ Shannon L. Alder

I don’t like the idea of something where you have to depend upon the integrity of the man and not the integrity of the institution.

~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

We do not owe any soul, except that which played the most vital role in our lives.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Listen to what flows from your own mouth. Is it really the message you intend to give? Is it coming out the way you want it to? Is it being received the way you hope it will be?

~ Akiroq Brost

Your traits are not good or bad. What you do or don't do with them is what determines the result. Give your traits a useful role. Recognize and utilize all parts that make up you. Love and empower yourself as you are.

~ Akiroq Brost

You can believe whatever you will, as long as you realize: it was your decision!

~ Akiroq Brost

I believe we are the ones who hurt ourselves the most, by how we receive, by how we perceive.

~ Akiroq Brost

The reluctant will heed wisdom only when the confidence exhibited by the righteous awakens the seed of introspection,and the awareness of acountability, into the psyche of the uncertain.

~ Justin K. Mcfarlane Beau

Individual free choices” can only be the expression of an “individual free will”.The notion of an “individual free will” generating “individual free choices” creates a much needed consequence: personal accountability.Personal accountability is vital for a primitive, immature human organization based on reprehension or praise.The permanent interaction of a unique inherited Nature (and maybe a unique “soul”) with a unique nurture (environment), will always determine all our “individual free choices”, from cradle to grave. It is impossible for the individual to be sentient before birth and choose these two or three unique factors.The logic of holding someone personally accountable for a “non-chosen” choice eludes me.The notion of individual free will can at best be a “gut felt” illusion, but can never have logical relevance.What sort of human (and divine!) organization can be based on the consequence of a “gut felt” illusion?-Our current one; primitive, illogical, unstable and permanently conflictual.Be it for all individual choices or all differences, the definitive ban of the illusionary notion of personal accountability is the missing step that will lead to human maturity.How’s your “gut” now?

~ Haroutioun Bochnakian

Introduction of rational standards to differentiate between acceptable and unacceptable forms of drug related conduct allows us to hold drug users fully accountable for any harm resulting from irresponsible, stupid or ‘anti-social’ drug use in a manner consistent with current alcohol and tobacco policies, and more importantly, in a manner consistent with our commitment to the principles of liberty, freedom of choice and so on.

~ Daniel Waterman

Not in order to justify, but simply in order to explain my lack of consistency, I say: Look at my present life and then at my former life, and you will see that I do attempt to carry them out. It is true that I have not fulfilled one thousandth part of them [Christian precepts], and I am ashamed of this, but I have failed to fulfill them not because I did not wish to, but because I was unable to. Teach me how to escape from the net of temptations that surrounds me, help me and I will fulfill them; even without help I wish and hope to fulfill them.Attack me, I do this myself, but attack me rather than the path I follow and which I point out to anyone who asks me where I think it lies. 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 to side! If it is not the right way, then show me another way; but if I stagger and lose the way, you must help me, you must keep me on the true path, just as I am ready to support you. Do not mislead me, do not be glad that I have got lost, do not shout out joyfully: “Look at him! He said he was going home, but there he is crawling into a bog!” No, do not gloat, but give me your help and support.

~ Leo Tolstoy

Change can never be good until you face it head-on.

~ Unarine Ramaru

Just because you're an adult doesn't mean you're grown up. Growing up means being patient, holding your temper, cutting out the self-pity, and quitting with the righteous indignation.''Why do so many people seem to love righteous indignation?''Because if you can prove you're a victim, all rules are off. You can lash out at people. You don't have to be accountable for anything.

~ Brandon Stanton

Since when has irresponsibility and lack of accountability in public service become a Nigerian factor?

~ Sunday Adelaja

We must hold to a rigid accountability those public servants who show unfaithfulness to the interests of the nation or inability to rise to the high level of the new demands upon our strength and our resources.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one's acts.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Take accountability before an excuse snatches you.

~ Tyconis D. Allison Ty

It is easy to let go of the string and think: This isn't me, it's the arrow. My hands do not bear the blood of this boy, it's the arrow that killed him, not me. But the arrow does not dream at night.

~ Andrzej Sapkowski

Our behavior, our feelings, our self-worth, our abilities, and our actions are never hinged to that of another.-Akiroq

~ Akiroq Brost

Man is either Viceroy or else he is an animal that claims special rights by virtue of its cunning and the devouring efficiency of teeth sharpened by technological instruments... But if he is Viceroy, then all decay and trouble in the created world that surrounds him is in some measure to be laid to his account

~ Charles Le Gai Eaton

You steadily grow into becoming your best as you choose to be accountable and accept responsibility for improvement.

~ Steve Shallenberger

We know what we should do. Age is no excuse. Do we go to others for permission or for discipline?

~ Donna Lynn Hope

It is your life...OWN IT! Your life purpose empowers you and enables you to live life abundantly. Empowerment begins by taking responsibility for your life and being accountable for your actions. Empowerment is the courage to live passionately and purposefully each day

~ Thomas Narofsky

Jefferson was ambivalent about executive power – until he bore executive responsibility.

~ Jon Meacham

Stop blaming and start aiming.

~ Rob Liano

Own your mistakes. Even when you’re in the process ofscrewing up.

~ Amber Hurdle

To incessantly blame others for my shortcomings is cowardice borne of fear, fed by fear, and haunted by fear. To be steadfastly accountable for my shortcomings is bravery borne of God, fed by God, and blessed by God.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

We reject the blame game and accusations so common in efficient groups. With each person accepting full responsibility for their actions, no on can have any more of the blame than anyone else. Let's all be accountable to ourselves, so we can grow and learn from our mistakes and be buoyed by our successes.

~ Curious George Brigade

Battling busyness is a community response.

~ Kevin Deyoung

He was cross-examining my subconscious .

~ Ransom Riggs

The author describes a previous Bible study with a lot of turnover as not so much together as in each other's midst.

~ John Kasich

In the old days, it had been talent and style and brilliance and now it was more and more productivity.

~ David Halberstam

He could tune her, bringing out her better instincts and filtering out her lesser ones.

~ David Halberstam

The knowledge worker cannot be supervised closely or in detail. He must direct himself toward performance and contribution

~ Matt Perman

A colleague like Barnabas could comfort him (Paul) in illness and keep him from overstrain when fit.

~ John Charles Pollock

Friendship allows you to see your own life but with a second sympathetic self.

~ David Brooks

Men need men to keep their edges hot and clean, whereas women keep us warm and soft.

~ Richard Rohr

As frustrating as the battle for purity must be, I suppose it's easier if you've got company.

~ Kevin Roose