Each week I will post quotes from a different virtue. Last week’s virtue was wisdom. This week’s virtue is accountability.  Accountability is “an obligation or willingness to accept responsibility or to account for one’s actions”.

10 Quotes on Accountability

  1. “Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy” —Anita Brookner
  2. “If any of us were faced with a huge bag of free money and very little accountability, it would be human nature that you would make the most of it”–Heather Brooke
  3. “The right thing to do and the hard thing to do are usually the same”― Steve Marabol
  4. “It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one’s acts”― Mahatma Gandhi
  5. “A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody”― Thomas Paine
  6. “The pressure of adversity is the most powerful sustainer of accountability. It’s as though everything you do is multiplied by 50 in order to surpass those with a head-start. I was never capable of slacking when at the threshold of failure”― Criss Jami
  7. “Delegating responsibility does not relinquish personal accountability” — Jeffrey Benjamin
  8. “What we’re proposing is a comprehensive approach that focuses on the classroom. The difference is we start with accountability, we don’t end with accountability”–Al Gore
  9. “At the end of the day we are accountable to ourselves – our success is a result of what we do”–Catherine Pulsifer
  10. “Accountability breeds response-ability” —Stephen R. Covey