122 Held Accountable Quotes
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Famous Held Accountable Quotes
Real men hold themselves accountable for stuff. — Ice T
On good teams coaches hold players accountable, on great teams players hold players accountable — Joe Dumars
To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise. — Mitch Caplan
We're building a culture of accountability, trust, and togetherness. Entitlement will not be tolerated — Brad Stevens
In well-functioning teams, each individual has high accountability for their part. — Naval Ravikant
Responsible, who wants to be responsible? Whenever something bad happens, it's always, who's responsible for this? — Jerry Seinfeld
Restoring responsibility and accountability is essential to the economic and fiscal health of our nation. — Carl Levin
A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody. — Thomas Paine
We need an independent media to hold people like me to account. — George H. W. Bush
You are as responsible for what you let happen as for the actions you share. — Joan Slonczewski
If I can't expect someone to be accountable off the floor, how can I expect them to guard a pick and roll? Or get a rebound? — Billy Donovan
You are responsible for the predictable consequences of your actions. — Noam Chomsky
Eventually we all have to accept full and total responsibility for our actions, everything we have done, and have not done. — Hubert Selby, Jr.
Taking responsibility for your life means owning your failures and faults as well as your successes and strengths. — William Ury
When you don't make people accountable, it leads to a superstar mentality where not everyone on the team is important. — Mike Babcock
Short Held Accountable Quotes
- Embrace accountability, and take business risks under your own name. — Naval Ravikant
- Leadership is taking responsibility while others are making excuses. — John C. Maxwell
- Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life. — Denis Waitley
- Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off. — Colin Powell
- It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do. — Moliere
- Responsibility is the price of freedom. — Elbert Hubbard
- Blaming others is excusing yourself. — Robin Sharma
- The only person to blame is the person making up the bullshit. — Oliver Sykes
- You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up. — Jesse Jackson
Holding Someone Accountable Quotes
To me, a leader is someone who holds her- or himself accountable for finding potential in people and processes. And so what I think is really important is sustainability. — Brene Brown
You can't hold someone accountable for results if you supervise their methods. — Stephen Covey
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
Failing to hold someone accountable is ultimately an act of selfishness. — Patrick Lencioni
There’s no accountability anymore, Pierce, no one holds anyone accountable for what they do. It’s always someone else’s fault. Usually people just blame the victim. — Meg Cabot
Holding Yourself Accountable Quotes
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
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
Take complete ownership of your outcomes by holding no one but yourself responsible. — Gary Keller
Hold yourself on your own. A man's job in a romantic dynamic is not to be your butler, bank account or your father. — Amy Chan
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
You don't have the right to hold somebody accountable for standards you refuse to apply to yourself. — Stephen A. Smith
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
You have to hold yourself accountable for your actions, and that's how we're going to protect the Earth. — Julia Hill
Being Accountable Quotes
It certainly strikes the beholder with astonishment, to perceive what vast difficulties can be overcome by the pigmy arms of little mortal man, aided by science and directed by superior skill. — Henry Tudor
For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed? — Bell Hooks
Trust, honesty, humility, transparency and accountability are the building blocks of a positive reputation. Trust is the foundation of any relationship. — Mike Paul
Americans' right to free speech should not be proportionate to their bank accounts. — Bernie Sanders
Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex. — Alice Paul
The civil rights of none, shall be abridged on account of religious belief or worship, nor shall any national religion be established, nor shall the full and equal rights of conscience be in any manner, or on any pretext infringed. — James Madison
In the life of the body a man is sometimes sick, and unless he takes medicine, he will die. Even so in the spiritual life a man is sick on account of sin. For that reason he needs medicine so that he may be restored to health; and this grace is bestowed in the Sacrament of Penance. — Thomas Aquinas
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime. — Mark Twain
Good health is not something we can buy. However, it can be an extremely valuable savings account. — Anne Wilson Schaef
By their victory, the 3rd, 4th and 5th Marine Divisions and other units of the Fifth Amphibious Corps have made an accounting to their country which only history will be able to value fully. Among the Americans who served on Iwo Island, uncommon valor was a common virtue. — Chester W. Nimitz
Responsibility And Accountability Quotes
Everyone says they want community and friendship. But mention accountability or commitment to people, and they run the other way. — Timothy Keller
For years now I have been talking about personal responsibility and accountability, both in our private lives and in the halls of government. Those are important principles here in Idaho, and they will form the basis of this administration. — Butch Otter
Two things you can’t let anyone take from you: your reputation and your balls. That means accepting the pressure of taking responsibility for everything you say and do. — Tim Grover
It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities. — Josiah Stamp
We will seek to implement specific changes in the manufacturing and distribution practices to promote more responsibility and accountability. — Kweisi Mfume
Every time I enter the field, it’s like, ‘Smriti, you have to score.’ And I love that responsibility. — Smriti Mandhana
While people out there on the spot certainly have to be held accountable for what they've done personally, the chain of command responsibility for this strikes me as just as important and should be dealt with. — William Odom
Embrace accountability and take business risks under your own name. Society will reward you with responsibility, equity, and leverage. — Naval Ravikant
As long as you continue to deny responsibility, you have the added burden of covering your mistake, and you know the truth will eventually come out anyway. Why bother prolonging the drama? You screwed up, admit it. — Tim Grover
Leadership happens at every level of the organization and no one can shirk from this responsibility. — Jerry Junkins
Personal Accountability Quotes
A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury. — John Stuart Mill
Our problem with President Obama isn't that he's a bad person. By all accounts, he too is a good husband, and a good father - and thanks to lots of practice, a pretty good golfer. — Marco Rubio
If one meets a powerful person--Adolf Hitler, Joe Stalin or Bill Gates--ask them five questions: "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
Edward Snowden made an audacious claim: “I, sitting at my desk, could wiretap anyone, from you or your accountant, to a federal judge or even the president, if I had a personal email. — Glenn Greenwald
Our corporate executives speculate with their shareholders’ assets because they get big personal rewards when they win—and even if they lose, they are often bailed out with public funds by obedient politicians. We privatize profit and socialize risk. — Edward O. Thorp
Branding requires accountability. To build a great personal brand an eponymous one,you must take on the risk of being publicly wrong. — Naval Ravikant
Take business risks under your own name. — Naval Ravikant
You are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life ... Your entire life ... Not just the life of your mind, but the life of your heart. Not just your bank account, but your soul. — Anna Quindlen
It's time to stop the raid on the Social Security trust fund and start allowing Americans to invest their Social Security taxes in personal savings accounts. — Mike Pence
There's not a chance we'll reach our full potential until we stop blaming each other and start practicing personal accountability. — John Miller
Being Responsible Quotes
The fidelity of a dog is a precious gift demanding no less binding moral responsibilities than the friendship of a human being. — Konrad Lorenz
...morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible. — Abraham Joshua Heschel
Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does. — Jean-Paul Sartre
Some people have a thick skin and you don’t. Your heart is really open and that is going to cause pain, but that is an appropriate response to this world. The cost is high, but the blessing of being compassionate is beyond your wildest dreams. — Anne Lamott
It's not my responsibility to be beautiful. I'm not alive for that purpose. My existence is not about how desirable you find me. — Warsan Shire
You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It's their mistake, not my failing. — Richard P. Feynman
We are not responsible for the circumstances we are in, but we are responsible for the way we allow those circumstances to affect us; we can either allow them to get on top of us or we can allow them to transform us into what God wants us to be. — Oswald Chambers
Don't spend your precious time asking "Why isn't the world a better place?" It will only be time wasted. The question to ask is "How can I make it better?" To that there is an answer. — Leo Buscaglia
I think it's the responsibility of every human being, not just those who wear the identity of poet, activist, voter, religious person... it's the responsibility of every person. Our responsibility is to use our intelligence as clearly and coherently as we possibly can. — John Trudell
Let us be under no illusion. The Jewish spirit, which was responsible for the alliance of large-scale capital with Marxism and was the driving force behind so many anti-Spanish revolutionary agreements, will not be got rid of in a day. — Francisco Franco
People Writing About Held Accountable
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
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 Naval Ravikant |
583 | 1 |
 Ice T |
157 | 689 |
 Joe Dumars |
9 | 70 |
 Brad Stevens |
9 | 368 |
 Jerry Seinfeld |
282 | 1528 |
 Carl Levin |
26 | 200 |
More Held Accountable Quotes
Two particular technological advancements would move Europe and the world away from physical coins and in turn help bring about the demise of silver's monetary role: the telegraph, first deployed commercially in 1837, and the growing network of trains, allowing transportation across Europe. With these two innovations, it became increasingly feasible for banks to communicate with each other, sending payments efficiently across space when needed and debiting accounts instead of having to send physical payments. This led to the increased use of bills, checks, and paper receipts as monetary media instead of physical gold and silver coins. More nations began to switch to a monetary standard of paper fully backed by, and instantly redeemable into, precious metals held in vaults. — Saifedean Ammous
The idea that God is a worthy recipient of our gratitude for the blessings of life but should not be held accountable for the disasters is a transparently disingenuous innovation of the theologians. — Daniel Dennett
Championship teams are built on being prepared, playing unselfishly and being held accountable. — Jason Kidd
Heroism is latent in every human soul - However humble or unknown, they (the veterans) have renounced what are accounted pleasures and cheerfully undertaken all the self-denials - privations, toils, dangers, sufferings, sicknesses, mutilations, life-long hurts and losses, death itself - for some great good, dimly seen but dearly held. — Joshua Chamberlain
Many of my personal passwords are still being held by the Chapter 11 team–to say nothing about data. — Sam Bankman-Fried
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
The poor quality of Christian that grows out of our modern evangelistic meeting may be accounted for by the absence of real repentance accompanying the initial spiritual experience of the converts. And the absence of repentance is the result of an inadequate view of sin and sinfulness held by those who present themselves in the inquiry room. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable. — Bill Bradley
I'm not going to be able to wave a magic wand and change everybody's thoughts. That's something that can only happen by people working on themselves and being held to account by the rest of us, but what Donald Trump's done really unleashed a lot of darkness and divisiveness. — Hillary Clinton
It's not a cost of doing business when the corporation executives go to jail, and that's why they fight so hard to make sure the prosecutors' budget are very limited and that the campaign cash-greased lawmakers keep defending them against being held accountable. — Ralph Nader
Religious leaders need to be held accountable for their ideas. — Lawrence M. Krauss
Under the United States Constitution, the federal government has no authority to hold states "accountable" for their education performance...In the free society envisioned by the founders, schools are held accountable to parents, not federal bureaucrats. — Ron Paul
What I argue is that if I'm going to be held accountable for my actions that I should be allowed to record... my actions. Especially if somebody else is keeping a record of my actions. — Steve Mann
Democratic leaders, whose power is ultimately dependent on popular support, are held accountable for failing to improve the lives of their citizens. Therefore, they have a powerful incentive to keep their societies peaceful and prosperous. — Natan Sharansky
I get so ticked off at you intellectually lazy people who think that the government is God, that every dollar they get or spend is somehow sacred. There is more fraud and waste and misuse. If the federal government were held accountable to the law as corporations are held accountable, half the federal government would be in prison. — Rush Limbaugh
Likewise the leader of any state has to do the same, he has to enforce Shariah firmly, for he will be held in account later in the afterlife if he fails. — Abu Bakar Bashir
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 then will contact your local authorities, and you will be held accountable. — Bill O'Reilly
I'm never nervous when I go to meet heads of state. I feel they should be nervous, because they are the ones who'll be held accountable for the lives their decisions will impact the most. — Bono
Why don't we call on the credit card companies to be accountable? They need to be held accountable for their predatory lending practices. — Paul Wellstone
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
There was a real choice when [Barack Obama] became president. It was a very difficult choice - to say, "We're not going to hold senior officials to account with the same laws that every other citizen in the country is held to," or "This is a nation that believes in the rule of law." — Edward Snowden
Just consider the CIA and its effort to suppress the Senate's review of its torture program. Take in the fact that we live in a country that a) legalized torture and b) where no one was ever held to account for it, and now the government's internal look at what happened is being suppressed by the CIA. That's a frightening landscape to be in. — Laura Poitras
We should never forget the government should be held accountable for providing services. — Margaret Chan
Lawmakers need to be held accountable and should feel the impact of a government shutdown just like many other Americans will. — Debbie Stabenow
We must have systems of checks and balances to make sure that those people who are making critical decisions for our country are held accountable, and nowhere is that more important than in the area of national security. — Chris Van Hollen
Vice President Joe Biden said today that 'Syria must be held accountable.' Unfortunately, the Obama administration has never employed an accountant, so they have no idea how to do that. — Jay Leno
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
All we want is justice for John Crawford and everyone responsible for John Crawford's death should be held responsible, the criminal justice system refused to hold those accountable so the civil system must. — Michael Wright
The highest levels of the U.S. military, the Defense Department, and the White House must be held accountable for putting our troops at greater risk and diminishing Americas moral authority across the globe. — Lawrence Korb
It is lawful and hath been held so through all ages for any one who have the power to call to account a tyrant or wicked king, and after due conviction to depose and put him to death. — John Milton
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
Eleven years after the discovery of their bodies, no one has been held accountable for their murders. The chief suspects in the chain of command, including the camp commander, have never been charged. — Garry Robbins
I have a lot of sympathy with the ideas and frustration of the Occupy movement. I absolutely agree with the sense that Wall Street has brought an economic calamity to the middle class and that no one has been held accountable. — Susan Bysiewicz
Well, you know, I - again, even in the context of BP, I wonder about this government's priorities. The federal government's top priority right now should be the cleanup. And BP certainly has done so many things wrong. They need to be held to account. — Carly Fiorina
Today further EU targeted sanctions on Syria come into force. The message is clear and unambiguous: those responsible for the repression will be singled out and held accountable. — William Hague
After all, I have spent the better part of my adult life insisting that government be open... that government be accessible... and that government be held accountable to people who voted us into office. — Roy Barnes
And they've got to be held accountable; our broadcasting system has to be made accountable; and unless it is, it's going to be very hard to change anything else for the better in this country. — Robert McChesney
This president has been reluctant to hold anybody accountable. No one was held accountable after September the 11th. Nobody's been held accountable after the clear flaws in intelligence leading up to the war in Iraq. — Bob Graham
Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems. — Elie Wiesel
Championship teams are built on being prepared, playing unselfishly and being held accountable, and that's how I expect to coach this basketball team. I am truly excited about this next phase of my basketball career. — Jason Kidd
And I believe in having an administration that has clearly defined goals, objectives and time lines such that it and its people can be held accountable. — Erskine Bowles
In certain states there's a statute of limitation on women who have been raped. How do you do that to a woman? If they are hiding something for 10 years that they finally have the courage to come forward and talk about, how could you take that away from her? And that person should still be held accountable. There's so much about this that we should always be talking about. There are so many layers. And it happens every day, all the time. — Kate Hudson
In the past when money was given from government to government, there was no accountability, especially the World Bank loans. Nobody was held accountable for the misuse of World Bank loans. That is why it is important to channel some of the money through civil society groups. — George W. Bush
Africa needs help, no question about that but I'd rather prefer that the money is channeled. That's what I call smart aid; it's channeled through African civil society groups. These are the groups which can be held more accountable. These are the groups which will sort of monitor how the aid money is spent. — George W. Bush
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