Top 180 Accountability Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “What is the next thing you need for leadership? It is the ability to make up your mind to make a decision and accept full responsibility for that decision.”

— Sam Manekshaw

102. “When we fail to set boundaries and hold people accountable, we feel used and mistreated. This is why we sometimes attack who they are, which is far more hurtful than addressing a behavior or a choice.”

— Brené Brown

103. “We change our behavior when the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the pain of changing. Consequences give us the pain that motivates us to change.”

— Henry Cloud

104. “I used to say, “I sure hope things will change.” Then I learned that the only way things are going to change for me is when I change.”

— Jim Rohn

105. “No excuses. No explanations.”

— Tony Dungy

106. “It is not what happens that determines the major part of your future. What happens, happens to us all. It is what you do about what happens that counts.”

— Jim Rohn

107. “Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.”

— John F. Kennedy

108. “You are free to choose. You are not free not to choose. No choice is a choice. You are free to choose but you are not free to choose the consequences of that choice.”

— Adrian Rogers

109. “If you betray yourself, if you say untrue things, if you act out a lie, you weaken your character.”

— Jordan B. Peterson

110. “We are a product of the choices we make, not the circumstances that we face.”

— Roger Crawford

111. “Don’t make excuses! Make changes!”

— Tony Gaskins

112. “Things change for the better when we take responsibility for our own thoughts, decisions and actions.”

— Eric Thomas

113. “One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.”

— Milton Friedman

114. “You can learn great things from your mistakes when you aren’t busy denying them.”

— Stephen R. Covey

115. “When you’re committed to something, you accept no excuses, only results.”

— Kenneth H. Blanchard

116. “We create our own destiny by the way we do things. We have to take advantage of opportunities and be responsible for our choices.”

— Ben Carson

117. “You are what you are today because of the choices you made in the past.”

— Jim Rohn

118. “Leadership is about integrity, honesty and accountability. All components of trust.”

— Simon Sinek

119. “Be proactive. Ask yourself, “Are my actions based on self-chosen values or on my moods, feelings and circumstances?””

— Stephen R. Covey

120. “I always wondered why somebody doesn’t do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody.”

— Lily Tomlin

121. “The trouble is that once you see it, you can’t unsee it. And once you’ve seen it, keeping quiet, saying nothing, becomes as political an act as speaking out. There’s no innocence. Either way, you’re accountable.”

— Arundhati Roy

122. “Your life is your ship and you are the captain. Choose your course, take the wheel firmly and get on your way.”

— Michael Josephson

123. “Tell the truth. That way you don't have to remember a story.”

— John Wooden

124. “It’s not the time to look for excuses.”

— Rafael Nadal

125. “If you suffer it is because of you, if you feel blissful it is because of you. Nobody else is responsible – only you and you alone. You are your hell and your heaven too.”

— Rajneesh

126. “If it comes down to your ethics vs. a job, choose ethics. You can always find another job.”

— Sallie Krawcheck

127. “We’re all flawed heroes. Responsibility is power. Take responsibility for the consequences of your actions, and the world is yours. Everything is a choice.”

— Tom Hiddleston

128. “We have met the enemy and he is us.”

— Walt Kelly

129. “Take a minute: look at your goals, look at your performance, see if your behavior matches your goals.”

— Kenneth H. Blanchard

130. “Your life works to the degree you keep your agreements.”

— Werner Erhard

131. “Real transformation requires real honesty. If you want to move forward – get real with yourself.”

— Bryant McGill

132. “We are the choices we make.”

— Patrick Ness

133. “Don’t ever promise more than you can deliver, but always deliver more than you promise.”

— Lou Holtz

134. “Peak performance begins with your taking complete responsibility for your life and everything that happens to you.”

— Brian Tracy

135. “Nothing works unless you do the work.”

— Robin S. Sharma

136. “On good teams coaches hold players accountable, on great teams players hold players accountable.”

— Joe Dumars

137. “Corruption is a cancer that steals from the poor, eats away at governance and moral fibre and destroys trust.”

— Robert Zoellick

138. “If you do not prepare now for the Afterlife, then when will you do so?”

— Al-Ghazali

139. “You can’t change what you don’t acknowledge.”

— Phillip C. McGraw

140. “You can’t dodge your responsibilities by saying they don’t exist!”

— Douglas Adams

141. “Do what you say you are going to do, when you say you are going to do it, in the way you said you were going to do it.”

— Larry Winget

142. “At the end of the day, your health is your responsibility.”

— Jillian Michaels

143. “The consequences of today are determined by the actions of the past. To change your future, alter your decisions today.”

— S. N. Goenka

144. “The first step to dealing with a problem is admitting that you have a problem.”

— Jase Robertson

145. “There is no power or authority without responsibility, and he who accepts the one cannot escape or evade the other.”

— Haile Selassie

146. “We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves.”

— Swami Vivekananda

147. “Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.”

— Ayn Rand

148. “Put all excuses aside and remember this: YOU are capable.”

— Zig Ziglar

149. “Nothing happens until I make it happen.”

— Scott Wilson

150. “Winners make the effort while losers make excuses.”

— Frank Sonnenberg