Responsibility And Accountability Quotes:

Restoring responsibility and accountability is essential to the economic and fiscal health of our nation.

- Carl Levin

source: Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.39, Crown Business

topic: Responsibility, Aquariums, Accountability, Fiscal Cliff, Fiscal Responsibility

For years now I have been talking about personal responsibility and accountability, both in our private lives and in the halls of government. Those are important principles here in Idaho, and they will form the basis of this administration.

- Butch Otter

topic: Responsibility, Idaho, Government, Responsibility And Accountability

We will seek to implement specific changes in the manufacturing and distribution practices to promote more responsibility and accountability.

- Kweisi Mfume

source: "NAACP to sue gun makers". www.cnn.com. July 12, 1999.

topic: Responsibility, Practice, Accountability, Manufacturing, Responsibility And Accountability

Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility.

- Michael Korda

source: "Success!". Book by Michael Korda, 1977.

topic: Success, Responsibility, People, Love And Responsibility, Great Responsibility

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Inspirational, Basketball, Peace, Social Responsibility, Love And Responsibility

It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.

- Josiah Stamp

topic: Responsibility, Community, Dodge, Self Responsibility, Responsibility And Accountability

Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.

- Denis Waitley

topic: Accountability, Life Is, Responsibility And Accountability

The twin sister to autonomy and freedom is responsibility and accountability. You cannot have one with out the other. If someone is given an area of responsibility, not only must they be set free to do it, they must also be held accountable for what they do. Accountability clarifies freedom. In the teams and companies where you see boundary confusion, power struggles, control, over-reaching of one's line of responsibility, you will also see lapses in accountability as well.

- Henry Cloud

topic: Team, Struggle, Responsibility, Autonomy, Twin Sister

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

- Sigmund Freud

source: "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

topic: Leadership, Freedom, Philosophical, Love And Responsibility, Psychoanalytic

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

- Jim Rohn

topic: Inspirational, Life, Change, Personal Change, Success And Life

You can't talk about leadership without talking about responsibility and accountability...you can't separate the two. A leader must delegate responsibility and provide the freedom to make decisions, and then be held accountable for the results.

- Buck Rodgers

topic: Responsibility, Talking, Two, Responsibility And Accountability, Delegates

Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.

- Oprah Winfrey

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Happiness, About Success, Inspirational Achievement

When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.

- Louis Nizer

source: My Life in Court ch. 1 (1961)

topic: Responsibility, Kids, Men, Pointing, Great Responsibility

The years I spent in a Steelers uniform & the years I spent in the military stressed the importance of teamwork and the sacrifices you had to make to accomplish the mission. And each emphasized individual responsibility and accountability.

- Rocky Bleier

topic: Teamwork, Military, Responsibility, Individual Responsibility, Responsibility And Accountability

I do think women avoid power. Power assumes responsibility and accountability, and I think many, many women want to have it both ways.

- Rita Mae Brown

topic: Responsibility, Thinking, Accountability, Responsibility And Accountability

I think it's one thing to be part of a very important group called the Senate of the United States and cast a vote. You're one of 100. I think it says even more to be a governor, where you ultimately have that political responsibility and accountability to succeed.

- Tom Ridge

source: Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

topic: Responsibility, Thinking, Accountability, Political Responsibility, Responsibility And Accountability