Quotes about Accountability

We are not punished for our sins, but by them.

We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

Responsibility is the ability to respond.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions

your behaviour must be such that when you go to bed at night you will be happy with what you have done during the day

You're not responsible for how you feel. You're responsible for what you do

There will no longer be so many pleasant things to look at if responsible people do not do something about the unpleasant ones

You're going to have to do something about yourself. Nobody can do it tor you.

The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives is to think we work for anybody but ourselves.

I guess that was the forerunner of our Saturday morning meetings. We wanted everybody to know what was going on and everybody to be aware of the mistakes we made. When somebody made a bad mistake—whether it was myself or anybody else—we talked about it, admitted it, tried to figure out how to correct it, and then moved on to the next days work.

I learned this early on in the variety store business: you've got to give folks responsibility, you've got to trust them, and then you've got to check on them.