Top 100 Accountable Quotes
#1. If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also remediable.
Horace Mann
#2. I recognize I have faults. I'm accountable for them, and I try to do what I can to correct them. I will say that it's unfortunate that everything I do is scrutinized to the point that it is. Frankly, I don't watch the news, I stay away from political conversations.
George Zimmerman
#3. No one in the history of the world had ever conceived of the idea that there could be a rebellion against a leader that would end not in a new leader but in a new kind of leadership altogether - a leadership that was accountable to those whom it led.
Eric Metaxas
#4. In film producing, there is an inherent tension between the director, the money and the producer, and that's what keeps it flowing and honest and accountable.
Christine Vachon
#5. David's experience of unmitigated blessing from the hand of God might have lulled David into thinking that he was not accountable and that God would continue to bless him no matter what David did or did not do (what Walter Brueggemann describes as "moral autonomy").
David R. Bauer
#6. I'm never nervous when I go to meet heads of state. I feel they should be nervous, because they are the ones who'll be held accountable for the lives their decisions will impact the most.
Bono
#7. For all that the papers would say I was a liar, I took the words I was saying at briefings as seriously as Tony Blair took what he would say at the Despatch Box. I find it very difficult not to tell the truth. I felt I was accountable for what I said.
Alastair Campbell
#8. I'm accountable - this sounds emo - to black American writing, Southern writing, Southern black American writing, American writing and my people. That's kind of what keeps me accountable.
Kiese Laymon
#9. The subjugation of news by entertainment seriously harms our democracy: It leads to dysfunctional journalism that fails to inform the people. And when the people are not informed, they cannot hold government accountable when it is incompetent, corrupt, or both.
Al Gore
#10. The whole reason we organize grassroots is, we think any politician that gets elected needs to be held accountable 365 days a year.
Chris Matthews
#11. There's such a freedom about being an artist ... You're not accountable - you're this renegade thing.
Cornelia Parker
#12. Religious and spiritual leaders should be held accountable for environmental activism, not only because they have access to large communities and can influence votes, but because service is integral to religious and spiritual life.
Radhanath Swami
#13. The press is the only institution that is truly accountable. The founding fathers put the First Amendment first for a reason.
Rupert Murdoch
#14. While people out there on the spot certainly have to be held accountable for what they've done personally, the chain of command responsibility for this strikes me as just as important and should be dealt with.
William Odom
#15. These people have to be talented, inspired and held accountable for and must be given the opportunity for success and failure on their own.
Robert Dino
#16. We can't change the past, but we can look to the future, and we can - we can hold ourselves accountable, to our - not just to our - our children but to all aspects of the - the world we interact with
Rodney Erickson
#17. I want people around me who call me out and hold me accountable.
Hunter Parrish
#18. Wouldn't it be easier keep your victim faceless?"
I shuddered. "Not a victim."
"What else do you call one hemmed in by fate?"
"Human," I said, bitterness creeping into my voice.
"What about guilt, then? Why open yourself to pain?"
"Guilt is what makes you accountable.
Roshani Chokshi
#19. Challenging unfairly subsidized products, fighting counterfeit goods and intellectual property theft and holding countries accountable for an unfair currency regime will help American companies remain competitive.
Virginia Foxx
#20. I for one believe that we absolutely need an improved guest worker program, one that holds immigrants and employers accountable and yet still enables us to get a crop out of the ground in south Georgia.
John Linder
#21. 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 hold yourself the most accountable of all.
Darren Shan
#22. Story is a relationship between the teller and the listener, a responsibility. After the listening you become accountable for the sacred knowledge that has been shared.
Terry Tempest Williams
#24. It is rare for people to say they want to be held accountable, but in reality, everyone wants everyone else to be held accountable.
David Cottrell
#25. Setting boundaries and holding people accountable is a lot more work than shaming and blaming.
Brene Brown
#26. Ron Reagan amazingly qualifies as an honest broker. I asked him if he was a mama's boy and he said no, more of a papa's boy. At the same time he was willing to say that his father had many shortcomings and needed to be held accountable.
Eugene Jarecki
#27. Let's hold insurance companies accountable the right way by making them put their whole customer base on the line.
Ron Wyden
#28. Should each individual snowflake be held accountable for the avalanche?
Franz Wright
#29. We are challenging white feminists to be accountable for their racism because at the base we still want to believe that they really want freedom for all of us.
Cherrie L. Moraga
#30. For great leaders, The Golden Circle is in balance. They are in pursuit of WHY, they hold themselves accountable to HOW they do it and WHAT they do serves as the tangible proof of what they believe.
Simon Sinek
#31. What makes this so remarkable is that this is the first time the United States is accountable for its record on torture with regard to some of the practices implemented after 9/11.
Jennifer Daskal
#32. It is time for us to insist that we are accountable for the money that we are spending.
Eric Cantor
#33. The key to real change lies not in implementing a new process, but in getting people to hold one another accountable to the process.
Kerry Patterson
#34. That person has to be accountable for himself. I think that's what we have to do in society today is to be accountable for yourself. I think we have the tendency to always want to live someone else's life.
Herschel Walker
#35. Forgiving someone only absolves you from holding them accountable. When that person has not truly met that accountability, it is a weakness on your end, Miss Rachael. To forgive when they are unrepentant only relieves you of that responsibility.
Deidre Huesmann
#36. Global warming is held accountable: people must stop burning things up, it is said. Gasoline, oil, whole forests. But they won't stop. Greed and hunger lash them on, as usual.
Margaret Atwood
#37. Every accountable child of God needs to set goals, short- and long-range goals. A man who is pressing forward to accomplish worthy goals can soon put despondency under his feet, and once a goal is accomplished, others can be set up.
Ezra Taft Benson
#38. Good governance is less about structure and rules than being focused, effective and accountable.
Pearl Zhu
#39. Everyone knows what falling in love is like but being in love is what people have lost. That intimacy to be in bed with somebody and just laugh and not hold anybody accountable for what they say.
Mark Polish
#40. If you say something that undermines the stability of the country, then you have to be held accountable.
Najib Razak
#41. If you take nothing else from what I've been through, at least remember this: make your choices well. Because you'll always be accountable for them. That's what being an adult is all about.
Sarah Dessen
#42. Have a lot of respect for the responsibility that journalists have to ask tough questions, to hold the administration accountable and to be advocates for the citizens of the United States.
Josh Earnest
#43. Realizing that we've surrendered our self-esteem to others and choosing to be accountable for our own self-worth would mean absorbing the terrifying fact that we're always vulnerable to pain and loss.
Martha Beck
#44. If everybody's doing everything, then who's accountable for anything?
Michael Gerber
#45. I think a lot of writers, male and female, write as if their parents were killed in a car accident when they were 2, and they have no one to hold accountable. And unfortunately, I don't have that. I have parents who I care about what they think.
Mindy Kaling
#46. Newspapers and their editors have to become as accountable as the rest of us - they are not 'a special case,' and they have only themselves to blame for having lost the argument for 'exceptionalism' - and with it the right to 'self-regulation.'
David Puttnam
#47. I prefer to be foolish when I feel like it, and be accountable to nobody.
Willa Cather
#48. There is nothing more valuable in the writing process than a friend to hold you accountable to your own potential.
J.R. Young
#49. We should never forget the government should be held accountable for providing services.
Margaret Chan
#50. If a prosecutor gets caught cheating, he either gets reelected or elevated to the bench. Our system never holds a bad prosecutor accountable.
John Grisham
#51. We continue to see undeniable evidence that abuse and torture has been widespread and systematic, yet high-level government officials have not been held accountable for creating the policies that led to these atrocities.
Anthony Romero
#52. Championship teams are built on being prepared, playing unselfishly and being held accountable
Jason Kidd
#53. I'm not saying that President Obama should be exempt from criticism, nor do I believe it is some act of racial treason for a black person to hold our president accountable for his actions.
Cornel West
#54. We know that often holding those who have carried out mass atrocities accountable is at times our best tool to prevent future atrocities.
Samantha Power
#56. We are all accountable for ourselves. Think of yourself as a precious commodity, and then protect your investment each day.
Monica Brant
#57. An honest man is not accountable for the vice and folly of his trade, and therefore ought not to refuse the exercise of it. It is the custom of his country, and there is profit in it. We must live by the world, and such as we find it, so make use of it.
Michel De Montaigne
#58. Human beings were held accountable long before there were corporate bureaucracies. If the knight didn't deliver, the king cut off his head.
Alvin Toffler
#59. Let no man hold you accountable for something God Almighty has already forgiven you for.
Elissa Gabrielle
#60. Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.
Denis Waitley
#61. I learned early that if I wanted to achieve anything in life, I'd have to do it myself. I learned that I had to be accountable.
Lenny Wilkens
#62. We need to hold Wall Street accountable for issuing the kinds of deceptive loans that nearly brought our economy to its knees in 2008.
Elizabeth Warren
#63. Danger invites rescue ... The wrongdoer may not have foreseen the coming of a deliverer. He is accountable as if he had.
Benjamin Cardozo
#64. I'm not somebody that just wants to hold up a white flag and say, 'Let's all just get along.' I think people that do horrible things should be held accountable.
Angelina Jolie
#65. The citizen can bring our political and governmental institutions back to life, make them responsive and accountable, and keep them honest. No one else can.
John Gardner
#66. A nascent economy needs a transparent and accountable government and an efficient civil service to help meet social needs. Its people need jobs and a belief in their country's future. A surfeit of aid has been shown to be unable to help achieve these goals.
Dambisa Moyo
#67. In the old days, the media is who held people accountable when they lied in politics. That isn't happening anymore.
Rush Limbaugh
#69. There is one irrefutable law of the universe: We are each responsible for our own life. If you're holding anyone else accountable for your happiness, you're wasting your time. You must be fearless enough to give yourself the love you didn't receive.
Oprah Winfrey
#70. How are we going to know what impact that has on the greenhouse gas emissions? How are we going to hold everybody accountable for doing their part?
Christy Clark
#71. Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.
Elie Wiesel
#72. When life happens, you can be either the author of your life or the victim of it. Those are your only two choices - accountable or unaccountable. This may sound harsh, but it's true. Every day we choose one approach or the other, and the consequences follow us forever.
Gary Keller
#73. It is a leader's job instead to take responsibility for the success of each member of his crew. It is the leader's job to ensure that they are well trained and feel confident to perform their duties. To give them responsibility and hold them accountable to advance the mission.
Simon Sinek
#74. The president has outlined a new strategy for success in Iraq, but in order for this effort to be successful the Iraqi government must be held accountable ... If we fail in Iraq, or withdraw our troops prematurely, the terrorists will follow us home. Success is our only option.
John Boehner
#75. When you don't make people accountable, it leads to a superstar mentality where not everyone on the team is important.
Mike Babcock
#76. 'Madame Bovary' advanced slowly, as slowly as it would have to have, given an author who held himself accountable to each word, that it be the right word, of which there could be only one.
Kathryn Harrison
#77. Pakistan is rich in sporting talent, but the only thing needed is to have sincere and honest administrators who should be held accountable by the government. Pakistan should be recognised as a sporting nation and not as a terrorist country.
Jahangir Khan
#78. Why would science ever recognize God;
that would make [them] accountable for their crimes against [him].
Craig Smedley
#79. The better-informed we are, the more we can do to make sure what's happening is in our interests and is accountable to us.
Rebecca MacKinnon
#80. But when it gets dark, I'm off the hook. The day is officially rolled up and put away. I'm free to watch movies or stare at the wall, no longer holding myself accountable for what I might or might not have gotten done because the time for getting something done is over until tomorrow.
Abigail Thomas
#81. The unwillingness to be accountable to a spouse makes most men, and now women, vulnerable to sin in their lives.
Larry Burkett
#82. When your teammate looks you in the eye and holds you accountable, that's the greatest kind of leadership there is
Doug Collins
#83. Each finger on your shooting hand is accountable to each shot. Just like each thought you think has some accountability to someone or somewhere.
Ed Palubinskas
#84. There are multi-scatterings of various and associated issues and concerns, but it all boils down to accountable people versus those unwilling to be accountable.
Ted Nugent
#85. My Dear Son ... remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.
Abigail Adams
#86. If you were a public official, you had to be accountable, and you had to be reachable.
James Jarrell Pickle
#87. Judging is something we are accountable to do. We are to judge righteous judgment (John 7:24). But let us be more severe in judging ourselves than others.
Anonymous
#88. I had assumed that the Earth, the spirit of the Earth, noticed exceptions
those who wantonly damage it and those who do not. But the Earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.
Alice Walker
#89. The political process does not end on Election Day. Young people need to stay involved in the process by continuing to pay attention to the conversation and holding their leaders accountable for the decisions they make.
Patrick Murphy
#90. It's hard to think seriously about grace until you understand that you've failed morally and will someday stand accountable before a holy God.
Lee Strobel
#91. An effective apology contains within it the answer to the question, "How am I to be held accountable?"
John Kador
#92. Scholarships that allow students to get a good education are important, but first we want to measure the progress that the schools are teaching our students, we want to hold them accountable for the progress, we want to hold the schools accountable for teaching the young people in America.
Andrew Card
#93. In the church we have to deliberately let ourselves be transparent and accountable to others. We're a family.
Timothy Keller
#94. We are a profoundly interconnected species, as the global economic and ecological crises reveal in vivid and frightening detail. We must embrace the simple fact that we are dependent on and accountable to one another.
Parker Palmer
#95. Democratic leaders, whose power is ultimately dependent on popular support, are held accountable for failing to improve the lives of their citizens. Therefore, they have a powerful incentive to keep their societies peaceful and prosperous.
Natan Sharansky
#96. I hate this life of the fashionable world, always ordered, measured, ruled, like our music-paper. What I have always wished for, desired, and coveted, is the life of an artist, free and independent, relying only on my own resources, and accountable only to myself.
Alexandre Dumas
#97. The American people do not have the information upon which they can hold the administration and responsible agencies accountable. I call that a coverup.
Bob Graham
#98. Under the United States Constitution, the federal government has no authority to hold states "accountable" for their education performance ... In the free society envisioned by the founders, schools are held accountable to parents, not federal bureaucrats.
Ron Paul
#99. Anyone with the need to be accountable to deal with more than what he or she can complete in the moment has the opportunity to do so more easily and elegantly than in the mind.
David Allen
#100. Show me a culture where honesty is considered ridiculous, where nobody's ever accountable for anything, where anger gets admired as a sign of strength, and I'll show you a place where misery is permanent
Anthony Steyning
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