Quotes about Accountability

He that wounds himself, even though he has not the right, is not culpable; but if others have wounded him, they are culpable.

I believe that a long step toward public morality will have been taken when sins are called by their right names.

It's a very good thing to teach kids to finish what they started in the sense of fulfilling their commitments. So when my daughter told me on the second track meet that she was done with it because she discovered she didn't like competing, I made her finish the season.

People fall in private, long before they fall in public. The tree falls with a great crash, but the secret decay which accounts for it, is often not discovered until it is down on the ground.

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

Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.

We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.

I repeat... that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.

Organizations are no longer built on force, but on trust.

When we tell people to do their jobs, we get workers. When we trust people to get the job done, we get leaders.

The administration of government, like a guardianship ought to be directed to the good of those who confer, not of those who receive the trust.

Trust doesn't develop from always doing the right thing. Trust comes from taking responsibility when we do the wrong thing.