Top 180 Accountability Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Start with the man in the mirror. Start with yourself. Don’t be looking at all the other things. Start with you.”

— Michael Jackson

52. “Your workouts are important meetings you scheduled with yourself. Bosses don’t cancel.”

— Anonymous

53. “Whenever you think something or some person is ruining your life, it’s you. A victimization mentality is so debilitating.”

— Charlie Munger

54. “If you see fraud and do not say fraud, you are a fraud.”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

55. “The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.”

— Vince Lombardi

56. “The standard you walk past is the standard you accept.”

— David Morrison

57. “Faber est suae quisque fortunae. Each man is the architect of his own fate.”

— Appius Claudius Caecus

58. “Victims make excuses. Leaders deliver results.”

— Robin S. Sharma

59. “Once we know and are aware, we are responsible for our action and our inaction. We can do something about it or ignore it. Either way, we are still responsible.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

60. “When you make a commitment, you create hope. When you keep a commitment you create trust!”

— John C. Maxwell

61. “It’s not what happens, it’s what you do that determines your future.”

— Jim Rohn

62. “You don’t get to choose not to pay a price, you only get to choose which price you pay.”

— Jordan B. Peterson

63. “You are free to choose, but you are not free to alter the consequences of your decisions.”

— Ezra Taft Benson

64. “To be responsible, keep your promises to others. To be successful, keep your promises to yourself.”

— Marie Forleo

65. “God knows what you’ve been doing, everything you’ve been doing. You may fool me, but you can’t fool God!”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

66. “Character is doing the right thing when nobody’s looking.”

— J. C. Watts

67. “Accountability breeds response-ability.”

— Stephen R. Covey

68. “Do what needs to be done, when it needs to be done the best way it can be done, and do it that way every time.”

— Bobby Knight

69. “When you make a mistake, there are only three things you should ever do about it: 1. Admit it. 2. Learn from it, and 3. Don’t repeat it.”

— Bear Bryant

70. “Do not try to excuse your faults; try to correct them.”

— John Bosco

71. “Learn to distinguish what you can and can’t control. Within our control are our own opinions, aspirations, desires and the things that repel us. They are directly subject to our influence.”

— Epictetus

72. “Hold yourselves accountable before you are held accountable.”

— Umar

73. “Will what I am about to do bring me closer to, or take me further from my goals?”

— Zig Ziglar

74. “Making excuses burns zero calories per hour.”

— Anonymous

75. “The four sayings that lead to wisdom are: ‘I was wrong,’ ‘I’m sorry,’ ‘I don’t know’ and ‘I need help.’”

— Louise Penny

76. “You are what your record says you are.”

— Bill Parcells

77. “You need to hear this loud and clear: No one is coming. It is up to you.”

— Mel Robbins

78. “A strong leader accepts blame and gives the credit. A weak leader gives blame and accepts the credit.”

— John Wooden

79. “Decisions, not conditions, determine what a man is.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

80. “He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.”

— Benjamin Franklin

81. “You’ll never achieve 100 percent if 99 percent is okay.”

— Will Smith

82. “Taking complete ownership of your outcomes by holding no one but yourself responsible for them is the most powerful thing you can do to drive your success.”

— Gary W. Keller

83. “In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It’s not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.”

— Tony Robbins

84. “Make small commitments and keep them. Be a light, not a judge. Be a model, not a critic. Be a part of the solution, not the problem.”

— Stephen R. Covey

85. “Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.”

— Joseph Campbell

86. “Don’t just talk about it, do it.”

— Ron Kaufman

87. “I wasn't lucky, I deserved it.”

— Margaret Thatcher

88. “Maturity comes not with age but with the acceptance of responsibility. You are only young once but immaturity can last a lifetime!”

— Edwin Louis Cole

89. “It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

90. “You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.”

— Tony Robbins

91. “It is your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny.”

— Tony Robbins

92. “It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies.”

— Noam Chomsky

93. “You cannot fix what you will not face.”

— James Baldwin

94. “You’re going to pay a price for every bloody thing you do and everything you don’t do. You don’t get to choose to not pay a price. You get to choose which poison you’re going to take. That’s it.”

— Jordan B. Peterson

95. “Your systems are perfectly designed to get the results that you are getting.”

— Stephen R. Covey

96. “You can make money or you can make excuses. Your choice.”

— John Addison

97. “In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.”

— Immanuel Kant

98. “If a user is having a problem, it’s our problem.”

— Steve Jobs

99. “In Northeast Ohio, nothing is given. Everything is earned. You work for what you have.”

— LeBron James

100. “You are the only person who can make this work, and you are the only person who can mess this up.”

— Andrew Tate