Quotes about Accountability

the idea (not mine: your great-grandfather's) being that even at eleven a man should already have behind him one year of paying for, assuming responsibility for, the space he occupied, the room he took up, in the world's (Jefferson, Mississippi's, anyway) economy.

It is inevitable that any one who can borrow freely to cover errors of management will borrow rather than correct the errors.

Great leaders don't make excuses. They make things better. They are not unrealistic or blind to the difficulties they face. They simply are not discouraged by them. They never lose confidence that the problems can be solved. They maintain a positive attitude. Great leaders don't blame their people for not being where they ought to be; they take their people from where they are to where they need to be. Great leaders never lose faith that this is possible.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you, never excuse yourself.

He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anyone else expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself - and be lenient to everybody else.

Some Day Someone is going to pick up this book (The Bible) and believe it, and put us all to shame.

Is life's span so dear and are home comforts so engrossing as to be purchased with my unfaithfulness and dry-eyed prayerlessness? At the final bar of God, shall the perishing millions accuse me of materialism coated with a few Scripture verses?

Honor your commitments with integrity.

The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it.