Quotes About You Accountable

#1. The reaction of whatever you do will continue punishing you (hold you accountable). I do not have to come to punish you," says God.

Dada Bhagwan

#2. What power have you got? Where did you get it from? In whose interests do you exercise it? To whom are you accountable? And how can we get rid of you

Tony Benn

#3. Each of us is accountable to God for our personal holiness. Humbling yourself by letting others into your life and allowing them to help you and hold you accountable will release the sanctifying, transforming grace of God in your life.

Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#4. When you die, God and the Angels will hold you accountable for all the pleasures you were allowed in life that you denied yourself.

Roger Housden

#5. When providing people with the direction and expected behaviors, you need to be alert to the fact that they will hold you accountable. People want to know if you are walking the talk. They will be watching your every move and you need to be one in the same ... every minute of every day.

Douglas Conant

#6. When your teammate looks you in the eye and holds you accountable, that's the greatest kind of leadership there is

Doug Collins

#7. A true friend holds you accountable to your best self.

Mike Glenn

#8. Let no man hold you accountable for something God Almighty has already forgiven you for.

Elissa Gabrielle

#9. There is nothing more valuable in the writing process than a friend to hold you accountable to your own potential.

J.R. Young

#10. 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

#11. Nowadays you don't need to be a senator or a CEO or a celebrity to have a voice in the media, and if you happen to be a senator, a CEO or a celebrity, you have a thousand people each with their own respective audiences to hold you accountable.

Bernie Sanders

#12. Five questions for politicians: 1. What power have you got? 2. Where did you get it from? 3. In whose interest do you exercise it? 4. To whom are you accountable? 5. How can we get rid of you?

Tony Benn

#13. The trouble is that once you see it, you can't unsee it. And once you've seen it, keeping quiet, saying nothing, becomes as political an act as speaking out. There's no innocence. Either way, you're accountable.

Arundhati Roy

#14. This is a difference between being a governor and being in a legislature. Because when something doesn't work in New Jersey, they look at me, say: "Why didn't it get done? Why didn't you do it?" You have to be responsible and accountable.

Chris Christie

#15. I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.

Zachary Quinto

#16. I hope that people will be held accountable, even if accountability just means naming it and letting the citizens of the country know where you're at. I think that has a huge impact on the way people think.

Christy Clark

#17. Learn from me, for as I teach, I learn from you as well! Always be accountable to yourself and take complete responsibility for your own life. No one can do as much for you, as you can do for yourself ...

James A. Murphy

#18. The presidential news conference is indispensable because it is the only forum in our society where you can be questioned on a regular basis and held accountable.

Helen Thomas

#19. It's up to you to make the conscious choices that bring about a better future. Find new methods to deal with old routines. You have to take charge of your life, to be accountable to yourself and responsible toward others.

Lynn C. Tolson

#20. I was always in complete control of everything in my life and I was just so tired of having to do that alone. Not that I wanted someone else to take over my life for me or tell me how to do things, but when you're the only one accountable for everything, that can get old.

Beth Harbison

#21. Even if I have to stand alone, I will not be afraid to stand alone. I'm going to fight for you. I'm going to fight for what's right. I'm going to fight to hold people accountable.

Barbara Boxer

#22. During the past five years, I've learned that time flies faster than you think, and because you only live once you have to learn from your mistakes, live your dreams and be accountable.

Lindsay Lohan

#23. I think that the thing you have to do is, people have to start being held accountable for their decisions. If somebody's not buying insurance, then they're going to have to be selling their car, or whatever it is to try to help cover that.

Todd Akin

#24. Let your life speak volumes holding your words accountable, lest you become just a talking head.

Sanjo Jendayi

#25. Elect us, hold us accountable, and make a judgment and then go from there. But I do tell you that if the Democrats win, and have substantial majorities, the Congress of the United States will be more bipartisan.

Nancy Pelosi

#26. Torture has been privatized now, so you have obviously the whole scandal in America about the abuse of prisoners and the fact that, army people might be made to pay a price, but who are the privatized torturers accountable too?

Arundhati Roy

#27. I'm not saying people should not be held accountable for their hurtful behavior. But the only thing blaming does is to keep the focus off you. It means you aren't dealing with your problems.

Art E. Berg

#28. You wanna know people are held accountable if they engage in misconduct and that no one is above the law.

Eric Schneiderman

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

Noel DeJesus

#30. It is your life...OWN IT! Your life purpose empowers you and enables you to live life abundantly. Empowerment begins by taking responsibility for your life and being accountable for your actions. Empowerment is the courage to live passionately and purposefully each day

Thomas Narofsky

#31. One of the things that I think about is: How do you make moments that float, transparent? Moments that could just float away. How do you make a body accountable for its language, its positioning? Why not make a body accountable for its language?

Claudia Rankine

#32. Over time it's going to be important for nations to know they will be held accountable for inactivity. You're either with us or against us in the fight against terror.

George W. Bush

#33. We are held accountable for every intention, which is why you are sitting where you are right now.

Oprah Winfrey

#34. You will launch many projects, but have time to finish only a few. So think, plan, develop, launch and tap good people to be responsible. Give them authority and hold them accountable. Trying to do too much yourself creates a bottleneck.

Donald Rumsfeld

#35. You exert a certain degree of influence, and be it ever so small, it affects some person or persons, and for the results of the influence you exert you are held accountable. You, therefore, whether you acknowledge it or not, have assumed an importance before God and man that cannot be overlooked.

Lorenzo Snow

#36. Companies don't have one culture. They have as many as they have supervisors or managers. You want to build a strong culture? Hold every manager accountable for the culture that he or she builds.

Marcus Buckingham

#37. If you're going to give people authority and hold them responsible and ultimately accountable for their performance, you've got to get out of the way.

Randy Lerner

#38. I may not have done it with grace, but I fought my way into something better and more enlightened ... My lesson here was you do not give up. You hold yourself accountable. You stay grateful. You hold on tight to your friends.

Drew Barrymore

#39. There's responsibility, but there's also accountability. You have to be accountable for your actions. You have to stand at your locker when things are going bad.

Derek Jeter

#40. You have to hold yourself accountable for your actions, and that's how we're going to protect the Earth.

Julia Hill

#41. I have had many occasions this year where I questioned and second-guessed my decision in a game, but it comes down to learning from mistakes and being accountable for what you did right or did wrong.

Don Mattingly

#42. In putting together your standards, remember that it is essential to involve your entire team. Standards are not rules issued by the boss; they are a collective identity. Remember, standards are the things that you do all the time and the things for which you hold one another accountable.

Mike Krzyzewski

#43. Leadership is stewardship, it's temporary and you're accountable!

Andy Stanley

#44. Rodney turned me to look at him and held my upper arms in his hands. "If he hurts you, I can't be held accountable for what I do." "I love you, you know that?" I replied and reached up on my toes to hug him.

Shelly Crane

#45. Telling the world you are trying is not doing.

Shannon L. Alder

#46. Remember you live in a community. You have a responsibility to be accountable to your family and your community as well as yourself.

Cherrie Moraga

#47. What history can do is show that people have to take responsibility for what they activate out of their tradition. It's not just a given thing one slavishly follows. You have to be accountable.

Karen L. King

#48. Every day you live as a Christian, you are accountable to live for Christ.

Monica Johnson

#49. You know, Democratic and Republican administrations alike have supported individuals and regimes that have slaughtered millions across the globe. And they need to be held accountable for that.

Aaron McGruder

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

Steve Shallenberger

#51. You cannot hold a child accountable to the same standards that you hold an adult accountable to.

Alan Ball

#52. 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

#53. 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

#54. When you don't make people accountable, it leads to a superstar mentality where not everyone on the team is important.

Mike Babcock

#55. 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

#56. My Dear Son ... remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.

Abigail Adams

#57. If you were a public official, you had to be accountable, and you had to be reachable.

James Jarrell Pickle

#58. 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

#59. Today, only two groups in the United States have total immunity from lawsuits: foreign diplomats and HMOs. We believe it's time to end diplomatic immunity for HMOs. Holding them accountable is the only way to guarantee that you get the health care your family deserves.

Tom Harkin

#60. Choose your allies carefully: it's highly unlikely that you'll ever be held morally, legally, or historically accountable for the actions of your enemies.

L. Neil Smith

#61. You hire a chief executive, pay him, and hold him accountable after a year or two. The time for so-called honorary jobs is over. What Pakistan squash needs is results, and that can only be achieved by professionals.

Jahangir Khan

#62. You aren't accountable to anyone, teachers or family but to yourself. Make sure your surrounding s are clean in all aspects

Vinod Rai

#63. You don't have the right to hold somebody accountable for standards you refuse to apply to yourself.

Stephen A. Smith

#64. 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

#65. 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

#66. You must try to understand, my dearest one. It was not treason, was but a dream bred before its time, that the King should not be accountable only to God. No mortal man ought to be entrusted with power such as that, for any king's son may be born a fool.

Sharon Kay Penman

#67. At the time, I didn't know what forgiveness meant. I wouldn't really know what forgiveness meant for another year, until my pastor, Rick McKinley, happened to spell it out in a sermon. He said that when you forgive, you bear the burden somebody has given you without holding them accountable.

Donald Miller

#68. 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

#69. If you say something that undermines the stability of the country, then you have to be held accountable.

Najib Razak

#70. 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

#71. 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

#72. 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

#73. There's such a freedom about being an artist ... You're not accountable - you're this renegade thing.

Cornelia Parker

#74. Politicians don't like to face unpleasant realities. In truth, nobody does, but as individuals, we have no choice; if we neglect to plan ahead, we are held accountable. Fail to meet your responsibilities at work, and you get fired. Ignore your car's gas gauge, and you get stranded.

Nathan Myhrvold

#75. The word accounting comes from the word accountability. If you are going to be rich, you need to be accountable for your money.

Robert Kiyosaki

#76. Hold yourselves accountable before you are held accountable.

Umar

#77. Recruit entrepreneurial leaders and give them freedom to determine the best path to achieving their objectives. On the other hand, individuals must commit fully to the system you use and be held rigorously accountable for their objectives. You give them freedom, but freedom within a framework.

James C. Collins

#78. In small communities, she believed, people are more accountable to one another. Serious misbehavior is harder to get away with, harder even to begin when everyone who sees you knows who you are, where you live, who your family is, and whether you have any business doing what you're doing.

Octavia E. Butler

#79. When you become complacent with someone lying, whether it is a close friend, the media, or your government, then you have essentially given them permission to continue to do so and most often at your expense.

Gary Hopkins

#80. Admit to and make yourself accountable for mistakes. How can you improve if you're never wrong?

Pat Summitt

#81. I'm willing to work with anyone of either party who has a good idea and the commitment to see through. And we should all expect you to hold us accountable for our progress or our failure to deliver.

Barack Obama

#82. Sometimes, in order to follow one's heart, one must do the wrong thing. Now, I'm not absolving anyone of their actions; you have to be responsible for your actions, sick or well, you have to be, you just have to be. All of us are accountable.

Craig Ferguson

#83. You cannot run a scociety or cope with it's problems if people are not held accountable for what they do.

John Leo

#84. I don't think you can hold someone accountable for trampling someone else, because that person was probably pushed from behind. But if someone picks your pocket in a crowd, it's no different from any other act of that kind, in another situation.

John Seabrook

#85. Relationships are two people; everyone is accountable. A lot goes into a relationship coming together, and a lot goes into a relationship falling apart. Even if it's 98 percent the other person's fault, it's 2 percent yours ... You can only clean up your side of the street.

Jennifer Aniston

#86. When you call us, ladies and gentlemen, just so you know, we do have your phone number, and if you say anything untoward, obscene, or anything like that, Fox security will then contact your local authorities, and you will be held accountable.

Bill O'Reilly

#87. If you don't hold your team accountable then you will lose credibility and your team will be spoiled.

John Brady

#88. My nutritionist says, 'If you bite it, write it.' Writing down everything that you put in your mouth really helps. I don't count a damn calorie. But when I'm really trying to eat healthy, I write everything down. It really holds me accountable and puts me on a healthier path.

Tyra Banks

#89. If you're not accountable in life that means ultimately that your life doesn't count.

R.C. Sproul

#90. We [USA] have a $16 trillion debt which these tax increases will do nothing to solve and you will have at least 200,000 less jobs next year than you have now. And the people who vote for that will be responsible for that decision and they will held accountable for that terrible public policy.

Marco Rubio

#91. If you want your prayers answered, you get off your knees and do the one thing you're praying someone else will do for you.

Shannon L. Alder

#92. You know I think the president has to really focus on getting elected to a second term in 2012. And I need to focus on making sure I'm accountable to the people of Missouri.

Claire McCaskill

#93. You should never hold yourself accountable for results you don't control, but always for the strength of trying.

Michael Bennett

#94. You learn who you are only by making yourself accountable to the judgment of others.

Stanley Hauerwas

#95. We've lost that very simple transaction that's so pure, where a reader can say, "I support what you're doing, here's my dollar. I know that you guys are gonna be watchdogs or keep the government accountable, so here's my 50-cent contribution each day." It's just so tidy, and I think so inspiring.

Dave Eggers

#96. The most important quality I look for in a player is accountability. You've got to be accountable for who you are. It's too easy to blame things on someone else.

Lenny Wilkens

#97. If you have to hold an employee accountable, replace that employee with a better one who takes responsibility so you don't have to.

Bob Lewis

#98. The more accountable I can make you, the easier it is for you to show you're a great performer.

Mark V. Hurd

#99. Blank House was exactly a nice empty sheet where nothing was accountable because you were so naughty that you were in Blank House.

Diane Cilento

#100. You can't hold firewalls and intrusion detection systems accountable. You can only hold people accountable.

Darryl White