Should we try to account for all the gifts of life there would be no time for distress and uneasiness.

When a bully is held accountable for his actions, his future actions will change. Bad behavior only continues for those who allow it.

When you can truly understand how others experience your behavior, without defending or judging, you then have the ability to produce a breakthrough in your leadership and team. Everything starts with your self-awareness. You cannot...

Stop blaming and start aiming.

I don’t know how you can characterize the tone at the top at this company as encouraging accountability and doing the right thing when nobody’s looking if Mr. Edmondson continues as CEO, and there appears...

Blaming others is an act of refusing to take responsibility. When a person can’t accept the fact or the reality, they blamed another person or the situation instead of taking accountability.

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

To get leaders to become stakeholders in ministry and to understand the DNA of your church, you must invest in them, equip them, and raise the bar of accountability.

There are a lot of black-hearted, mean-spirited bastards in the world. It’s important that we hold them to acount. But always remember that you might be the most black-hearted and mean-spirited in the lot, so...

People often attribute their successes to skill, and their failures to unfortunate circumstances. It’s like if I win it’s because I’m good, and if I lose it’s because I’m unlucky. With every victory, I amplify...

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

I saw the figure of 178 Billion wasted/stolen from the people of a country by its corrupt and inept government. Such a figure could truly transform the entire country; education, health, roads, schooling, entrepreneurial environment…...

We think [Baker’s proposal] would not have the same accountability and transparency for the American taxpayer that the normal appropriations process would.

Good health is subjective and cumulative depending on individual interpretation. Do not allow someone else’s shortcomings to become yours.

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

There is no fault, only responsibility.

It is difficult — if not impossible — in certain areas to achieve what we consider the appropriate level of accountability and enforcement unless the charter school governing body agrees with the proposed terms,

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...

When you’re among 60,000 of your closest friends, your accountability diminishes. It’s very different than if you’re at a bar with 10 people.

Character is less about what we do wrong And All about what we make right….

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...

The evil of technology was not technology itself, Lindbergh came to see after the war, not in airplanes or the myriad contrivances of modern technical igenuity, but in the extent to which they can distance...

Continuously lying to yourself is just as fatal as suicide; only slower. Take ownership of your life, be accountable to you.

Their body language would have to be different. You still have guys asking questions in a 6-2 hockey game. They?re being men. I have to practice the same thing that I?m preaching, too. There has...

The only way we succeed as a group is not simply following directions, but in keeping each other accountable for our actions.

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...

There is no ownership. There is only stewardship.

The only people that can ruin a relationship or make that relationship work are the two people in it.

In recent years, academics, policy-makers, and experts have raised the question of the applicability of peacetime environmental law in times of armed conflict.

What I’ve yet to realize is that each time I work to avoid that which I fear, I have in that very same action forfeited the blessings that my fear blinded me to. And I’ve...

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...

What they’ve said is they need things tightened up. They need some accountability. And that’s my job.

If you hang out with chickens, you’re going to cluck and if you hang out with eagles, you’re going to fly.

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

A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.

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.

The standard of a true leader is that he sets also his own rules rather than merely and blindly obeying the set of standard rules, even if it means being treated as an idiot or...

With accountability, … teachers can’t spend time in exercises in political correctness, or fun and games in the classroom. When there’s a more focused academic effort, some of the fluff goes.

Människor är inte så små som man tror. Och inte så stora. Felet med att ha makten som bedömningsgrund och inte handlingarna är att nästan alla friskriver sig då, var och en hittar sin maktlöshet...

If you aren’t diligently working towards changing something that bothers you, you rescind your right to complain about it.

Across the world, the lack of accountability for the harm to the environment and public health caused by conflict and military activities undermines global efforts to help fragile countries recover from armed conflicts

It’s the integral part of the state’s accountability system. It’s a high-stakes test, and it’s highly secure. It’s important they follow all the guidelines and policies for test security before, during and after test administration.

The problem with ID, of course, is that it leaves open the possibility that the intelligence behind nature may have a moral interest in us, having communicated already with humanity in the past, and might...

Reach out, share your truth, tell someone, “This is who I am. This is what I stand for. Hold me to it.” Often, we’ll do far more for another than we will do for ourselves.

The right thing to do and the hard thing to do are usually the same.

Accountability is the essence of democracy. If people do not know what their government is doing, they cannot be truly self-governing. The national security state assumes the government secrets are too important to be shared,...

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...

Accountability is a concept we’re going to stand by, and part of that is being in the best shape possible. It’s very important how you show up here.

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

Often the best source of information about waste, fraud, and abuse in government is an existing government employee committed to public integrity and willing to speak out. Such acts of courage and patriotism, which can...