Accountability Quotes

Most popular accountability quotes

I certainly know that if the war fails, the administration fails, and that I will be blamed for it, whether I deserve it or not. And I ought to be blamed, if I could do better. You think I could do better; therefore you blame me already. I think I could not do better; therefore I blame you for blaming me. - Abraham Lincoln quote.
I certainly know that if the war fails, the administration fails, and that I will be blamed for it, whether I deserve it or not. And I ought to be blamed, if I could do better. You think I could do better; therefore you blame me already. I think I could not do better; therefore I blame you for blaming me.

American Civil War

You can't run a society or cope with its problems if people are not held accountable for what they do.
John Leo in U.S. News & World Report

justice

If you can't stand the heat, you'd better get out of the kitchen. - Harry S. Truman quote.
If you can't stand the heat, you'd better get out of the kitchen.

critics

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 quote.
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.

morals evil action inaction

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible. - Stanisław Jerzy Lec quote.
No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

responsibility

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else. - Benjamin Franklin quote.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

excuses

Embrace accountability, and take business risks under your own name. Society will reward you with responsibility, equity, and leverage. - Naval Ravikant quote.
Embrace accountability, and take business risks under your own name. Society will reward you with responsibility, equity, and leverage.
The most accountable people have singular, public, and risky brands: Oprah, Trump, Kanye, Elon. - Naval Ravikant quote.
The most accountable people have singular, public, and risky brands: Oprah, Trump, Kanye, Elon.