Self Accountability Quotes

#1. If you ask Muslim women why they cover up, ninety-nine percent of them will say it's to avoid arousing men. Fuck that, where's your self-accountability?

Michael Muhammad Knight

#2. I think self-reliance and self-responsibility and self-accountability will help you as a parent, a teacher, as a citizen as a friend.

Henry Rollins

#3. I have a rigid self-accountability. You have to work hard.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#4. Friendship allows you to see your own life but with a second sympathetic self.

David Brooks

#5. It amazes me that parents are allowed to raise kids. There's so much power and often very little accountability.

Ben Marcus

#6. You don't have to worry about burning bridges, if you're building your own

Kerry E. Wagner

#7. In the last analysis, of course, an oath will encourage fidelity in office only to the degree that officeholders continue to believe that they cannot escape ultimate accountability for a breach of faith.

James L. Buckley

#8. There's not a chance we'll reach our full potential until we stop blaming each other and start practicing personal accountability.

John Miller

#9. If torture is going to be administered as a last resort in the ticking-bomb case, to save enormous numbers of lives, it ought to be done openly, with accountability, with approval by the president of the United States or by a Supreme Court justice.

Alan Dershowitz

#10. Corporations are like protean bacteria; you hit them with accountability and they mutate and change their names.

Doug Anderson

#11. You may create a inspirational & visually resplendent strategy map but without accountability its value is specious

Paul R. Niven

#12. 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,

Mike Huckabee

#13. 'No Child Left Behind' requires states and school districts to ensure that all students are learning and are reaching their highest potential. Special education students should not be left out of these accountability mechanisms.

Dianne Feinstein

#14. It is only within the context of the church that ongoing spiritual care, encouragement, and accountability can occur. It is only as we use the powerful word of the gospel in each other's lives that we can change.

Elyse M. Fitzpatrick

#15. Since life comes up and emergencies happen, making success possible hinges on two things: being choosy about each day's priority list, and developing an accountability system that works.

Laura Vanderkam

#16. For many businesses, the fear behind their social media reluctance isn't just fear of failure but of blame and accountability - both individual and collective.

Jay Baer

#17. One thing I detest most about the financial press is the lack of accountability. All sorts of nonsense is said without penalty.

Barry Ritholtz

#18. Of everyone else who was running, and there were some very talented people, none of them had anywhere near the experience I had in hiring people, holding them accountable, creating systems for accountability.

John Hickenlooper

#19. Democracy requires accountability and consent of the governed, which is only possible if citizens know what is being done in their name.

Glenn Greenwald

#20. Baptism is the critical priesthood ordinance which opens the door to eternal life for each one of us. It is the benchmark from which we count our many blessings because this is when our accountability to follow Jesus Christ and live his Gospel begins.

Elaine L. Jack

#21. Acknowledgment of torture is not accountability for it.

Yousef Munayyer

#22. The most important thing about a child's education is to have a great teacher in front of the classroom and a lot of choice and accountability with parents.

Carly Fiorina

#23. People are responsible for their actions, but not the fruits of their actions. Always do what you think is right, but don't worry if good does not always come from what you do.

Christopher Pike

#24. Trust is the glue that holds everything together. It creates the environment in which all of the other elements win-win stewardship agreements, self-directing individuals and teams, aligned structures and systems, and accountability can flourish.

Stephen Covey

#25. The problem is not that we don't recognize the truth when we hear it. The problem is that we don't want to recognize what the truth might mean for us if we hear it.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#26. As buoyancy is not contrary to other characteristics of leadership, including decisiveness, accountability and performance standards, I don't ever think it can be self-defeating.

Kevin Allen

#27. Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

Gautama Buddha

#28. The author concedes that the body of Christ may often judge wrongly , but he says that the judgment of the body as a whole is more sound that is one's ability to judge self objectively.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#29. It should be some kind of goal to be absolutely clear about your past experiences and have let them all go and accepted them in full.

Auliq Ice

#30. Your life depends entirely on your reactions to the accountability that you are faced with.

Stephen Richards

#31. Leadership grows like tall trees. It needs both toughness and flexibility - toughness for accountability - flexibility to adapt changes with a compassionate & caring heart for self and others.

Amit Ray

#32. Self-discipline is also built on competence, persistence, and the willingness to assume accountability for results. Competence is more than skill and ability; it's attitude and experience.

Jim Highsmith

#33. Self-examination is the process of accountability to your soul ... It is far better to "become" your truth than to speak your truth. Self-examination is the practice of becoming your truth.

Caroline Myss

#34. 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.

Vishwas Chavan

#35. There will always be people afraid of the monsters in the night. They are usually the ones that look for them because they have proven they exist in themselves.

Shannon L. Alder

#36. 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

#37. Your thoughts will make you a victor or a victim.

Rob Liano

#38. When I'm at the bottom looking up, the main question may not be 'how do I get out of this hole?' In reality, the main question might be 'how do I get rid of the shovel that I used to dig it?

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#39. 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.

Kamal Ravikant

#40. The realization of the self is only possible if one is productive, if one can give birth to one's own potentialities.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#41. The keys to brand success are self-definition, transparency, authenticity and accountability.

Simon Mainwaring

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

Gary Hopkins

#43. A person begins to live a moral life when they cease asking what life will provide them and begins to determine what he or she expects from oneself.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#44. Everybody's got the potential for great good and great wrong in them, but it's the choices we make that define who we really are.

Charles De Lint

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

Zachary Quinto

#46. Greater personal choice, individually tailored services, stronger local accountability, greater efficiency - these are all central to the new direction of travel we have set for our public services.

John Hutton

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

Eckhard Pfeiffer

#48. to be right in the wrong direction may be wrong; what then is the wrong direction?

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#49. My dad, like any coach, has always stressed the fundamentals. He taught me responsibility, accountability, and the importance of hard work.

Steve Young

#50. Accountability and democratic choice, I deeply believe, are guaranteed by rigorous scrutiny only.

Jemima Khan

#51. Forgiving yourself, not guilt, increases personal accountability.

David D. Burns

#52. Sometimes to take two steps in a row, one after the other, I need to make a contract with myself.

Erri De Luca

#53. The biggest single problem of American parents today is the foolish idea that you just have to be a friend to your children. Kids need parents, not just another pal. This means being able and willing to say no, to challenge faulty thinking, and to expect accountability.

Steve Biddulph

#54. Hell is the place for people who did not live their lives according to the best of what was in them.

Harriet Rubin

#55. No one in the Emirates is above the law and accountability.

Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum

#56. With such a worshipping wife, it was hardly possible that any natural defects in it should not be increased. The extreme sweetness of her temper must hurt his.

Jane Austen

#57. Accountability for the largest financial institutions on Wall Street is the bedrock for a strong economy. Hard-working families and honest businesses cannot survive in a world where the rules don't keep the marketplace honest.

Elizabeth Warren

#58. If you fail to treat the current time you have wisely and with care, it'll judge you tomorrow harshly since it came to you but you mistreated and abused it.

Assegid Habtewold

#59. A corporation like Enron is a person with a legal identity and no ethical accountability.

Doug Berry

#60. Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.

Les Brown

#61. But contemporary capitalism increasingly has the power to eliminate the intimacy and accountability of human relationships. So in the marketplace, as in every field, there is an urgent need for those with a powerful compass.

Timothy Keller

#62. I think it's one thing to be part of a very important group called the Senate of the United States and cast a vote. You're one of 100. I think it says even more to be a governor, where you ultimately have that political responsibility and accountability to succeed.

Tom Ridge

#63. Lynching's legacy, though, is also evident today in law enforcement's freedom from accountability in the shooting of black and other youth of color, thus displaying a de facto, and often actual, legalization of white supremacist killing of black life.

Mark Lewis Taylor

#64. I think we should all be accountable to our parties, but I also think that accountability should be a process of engagement: that MPs do engage with their constituency parties, do engage with their constituents, and MPs do change their minds on things because of local opinion.

Jeremy Corbyn

#65. Concerned Veterans for America (CVA) has called for an audit of the Pentagon, so that we finally have some transparency and accountability in how DOD spends taxpayer dollars.

Pete Hegseth

#66. The merits of deeper debt cancellation, when accompanied by conditions of accountability and transparency on the part of recipient countries, have been shown to generate much needed resources for health, education and poverty reduction for some of the world's poorest people.

John Ricard

#67. Under the oppression of the devil, we will eventually reject structure and accountability.

Steven B. Curington

#68. I got an accountability partner to call me everyday just to make sure I publish something. Accountability works because it adds social pressure to otherwise self-directed work.

Mike Fishbein

#69. Some people are hard to hold accountable because they are so helpful. Others because they get defensive. Others because they are intimidating. I don't think it's easy to hold anyone accountable, not even your own kids

Patrick Lencioni

#70. I have to trust people. There's no system of controls that can replace trust, so I need to reinforce that trust, and part of reinforcing trust is making sure that people feel accountability, and with accountability comes some degree of autonomy. You don't have one without the other.

Harry West

#71. 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

#72. Candor and accountability in a democracy is very important. Hypocrisy has no place.

Alan Dershowitz

#73. To tell a ghost story means being willing to be haunted.

Judith "Jack" Halberstam

#74. Believe in the power of your own voice. The more noise you make, the more accountability you demand from your leaders, the more our world will change for the better.

Al Gore

#75. Open collaboration encourages greater accountability, which in turn fosters trust.

Ron Garan

#76. Everyone understands that in a modern economy - transparency, accountability, a working justice system are part of having a functioning, modern society.

Alexander Stille

#77. Who has not first tried to get out of a tough situation before truly dealing with it?

Mary O'Neill

#78. Leaders inspire accountability through their ability to accept responsibility before they place blame.

Courtney Lynch

#79. 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.

Nel Noddings

#80. God is not all that interested in your grammar. He is interested in the meaning of your grammar!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#81. One of the things you learn as a journalist is that when there's no accountability, we humans are capable of tremendous avarice and venality. That's true of union bosses - and of corporate tycoons. Unions, even flawed ones, can provide checks and balances for flawed corporations.

Nicholas Kristof

#82. Track accountability is the best way to describe it. You're looking to see which dog accounts for the most tracks in the smoothest manner.

Edward Higgins White

#83. The accountability of government has gone to the point where the very use of the law is the instrument of illegality.

Ralph Nader

#84. 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 blessed by God.

Craig D. Lounsbrough