Best 596 quotes in «accountability quotes» category

Under the interlocking regimes of neoliberal power, violence appears so arbitrary and thoughtless that it lacks the need for any justification, let alone claims to justice and accountability. It is truly as limitless as it appears banal.

Until you can become accountable to yourself and only yourself, you're probably not going to live a fully vital life. So much of literature is about accountability. The moral issues in most novels are about people becoming responsible for their own behaviour. One of the forces against being responsible for your own behaviour is the force of the past, in the way that the past tries to form you.

Vote to protect your family. Vote for honesty, integrity, and accountability.

Wal-Mart, with its legendary focus on customer value in terms of price, is innovating in sustainability. Now, we're beginning to see the mirror image, a convergence, as the not-for-profit sector is beginning to serve more effectively by applying private sector accountability and efficiencies to social needs. This reflects a rising recognition that to serve others best requires more than good intentions; it mandates a focus on real-world results. Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are among the most conspicuous advocates and representatives of this transformation.

We all create the person we become by our choices as we go through life. In a real sense, by the time we are adults, we are the sum total of the choices we have made.

We are accountable only to ourselves for what happens to us in our lives.

We are reinventing ourselves as a company. Compaq is taking ownership of its customer relationships and accountability of our customer's needs.

We cannot have a just society that applies the principle of accountability to the powerless and the principle of forgiveness to the powerful. This is the America in which we currently reside.

We ask why there's violence in our school but we've systematically removed God from our schools. Should we be so surprised that schools have become such a place of carnage? Because we've made it a place where we don't want to talk about eternity, life, what responsibility means, accountability.

We needed someone to recognize the importance of check and balances, accountability, transparency. There was a real systemic problem at South Carolina State, a problem that has gone on for 25 or 30 years

We just have to have visibility. We have to have acknowledgement. We have to have accountability to how we treat one another.

We must perfect a worldwide system of accountability for nuclear, biological and chemical weapons.

We need a return to transparency and a system of checks and balances, to a president who respects Congress' role of oversight and accountability.

We need to replace hyperbole with a reasonable, informed discussion about how to reinvent the federal budget with more transparency and better accountability.

We're building a culture of accountability, trust, and togetherness. Entitlement will not be tolerated

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

What is called 'capitalism'is basically a system of corporate mercantilism, with huge and largely unaccountable private tyrannies exercising vast control over the economy, political systems, and social and cultural life, operating in close cooperation with powerful states that intervene massively in the domestic economy and international society.

We should insist that governments receiving American aid live up to standards of accountability and transparency, and we should support countries that embrace market reforms, democracy, and the rule of law.

What we are missing, utterly and completely, in this government is accountability.

What we're seeing is an era where governments and huge organizations such as the IOC don't have accountability. They don't have accountability to the athletes they are supposed to be protecting and they don't have accountability to the truth. What we've seen out of Russia is a continual denial, no matter what has been presented. They are still blaming Grigory Rodchenkov as an individual who did this all on his own.

When we are really honest with ourselves we must admit our lives are all that really belong to us. So it is how we use our lives that determines the kind of men we are.

When they say accountability, they mean surveillance and standardization.

Why don't we call on the credit card companies to be accountable? They need to be held accountable for their predatory lending practices.

Where the U.N. is concerned, accountability is very thin on the ground in general.

Accountability and self-responsibility are critical to our success in personal, professional and public life. However, we often look for those character traits in others, rather than inculcating them in ourselves.

You see so many artists who are so talented end up living sad, empty lives. This industry takes so much out of you that without the accountability and leaving God in the center, you can be left so empty and void.

You would not let your kids do whatever they want. So the challenge is to create accountability in a non-mechanistic way. You cannot come in with a clipboard and check off boxes and figure out why something has not been done on schedule.

360° Accountability As an Entrepreneur, you are held: Accountable to God Accountable to Your Family Accountable to Your Team Accountable to Your Clients Accountable to Yourself Accountable to Your Outcome

Absolution is the most powerful form of forgiveness. A full pardon from suspicion and accountability. It's the liberation of a stolen future. A future my father never lived to see. Absolution is a mercy the people who killed him will never know.

Achievers are biased towards action despite any fear, and this courage sets them apart from others.

Action is where sacrifice is honoured and where you require persistence and courage to endure all that life throws in your direction.

You cannot have democratic accountability in anything bigger than a nation state.

You know, a lot of people feel that sobriety is about just stopping using whatever it was that you appeared to be addicted to, but it really has to do with a way of looking at your life and taking accountability.

Accepting complete responsibility is the unsung character trait of those who find uncommon success, and failure to accept responsibility is a common trait of those who end up with a mediocre life.

Accountability is the glue that bonds commitment to results.

Accountability means to say what you do, do what you say.

Achieving a goal is not the most important part of the process. The destination should never be your primary purpose or objective.

Achieving your goal should always be of secondary importance. Your focus should be on becoming the kind of person deserving of the goal.

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

A central administration enervates the nations in which it exists by incessantly diminishing their public spirit. If such an administration succeeds in convincing all the disposable resources of a people, it impairs at least the renewal of those resources.

Always know that you are being held accountable for your actions, by your friends, family, coworkers, and most importantly, by God. Lead by example and build a team of successful people around you. By being the dependable person, success is naturally attracted to you.

All goals are not created equal; the size of the goal matters but it isn’t as important as the passion behind the goal.

Although failure is a good learning experience, you don’t have to go through life making mistakes if they can be avoided.

all believers should “submit to each other out of reverence for Christ.” In many ways, wives should submit to their husbands in the same way any believer should submit to other believers, specifically by living according to the lifestyle the apostle Paul lays out earlier in the chapter. This mutual submission is an accountability to be held to God’s standards, an accountability in which both husband and wife are called to participate.

Although a decision is often viewed as the turning point, it is action that creates tangible results.

Always direct your emotions, desires, behaviour, and actions in the present so they are in alignment with what you want in your future.

A mediocre idea acted on is of more value than a handful of brilliant ideas that remain in your mind.

A president cannot defend a nation if he is not held accountable to its laws.

Apart from demanding accountability, never forget to encourage your people.

A policy of ‘naming and shaming’ is ineffective if everyone has been named and shamed.