Best 596 quotes in «accountability quotes» category

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

An accountability mind has learned to be agile, wise, courageous, resilient, and high-mature.

Anything in your life achieved too soon or too freely with little sacrifice is lost too quickly

Anytime that cannot be accounted for is a wasted time.

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.

When they say accountability, they mean surveillance and standardization.

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.

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

As for the journey of life; at some point you will realize that YOU are the driver and you will drive!

As you grow older, start using your brains, energy, and the means available to you, however little they may seem, to go after what you need to get better, so that you can have what you want to live the the life you desire.

A vision is a promise of the future as seen in the present.

Battling busyness is a community response.

Become skilled in the process of selecting whom you allow into your circle of influence.

Before you make a decision, ask yourself this question: will it result in regret or joy in the future?

Be specific about what you want. Decide, define, describe, discuss and develop your plans and then act on them.

Be willing to give up something you believe to be of value to get something of greater value.

Be willing to constantly travel towards the dreams of your future and don’t be afraid to give up the good for the great.

Big dreams only come true when you believe and have the courage to pursue them.

But, and here comes the rub, all of us feel that we are in complete control of our desire for things. We would never admit to an ungovernable spirit of covetousness. The problem is that we, like the alcoholic, are unable to recognize the disease once we have been engulfed by it. Only by the help of others are we able to detect the inner spirit that places wealth about God. And we must come to fear the idolatrous state of covetousness because the moment things have priority, radical obedience becomes impossible.

But the man is, as it were, clapped into jail by his consciousness. As soon as he has once acted or spoken with eclat, he is a committed person, watched by the sympathy or the hatred of hundreds, whose affections must now enter into his account.

A sense of responsibility in teaching pushes us constantly to think about and promote the best interests of our students. In contrast, the demand for accountability often induces mere compliance.