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Accountability Quotes

Trust is the word when it comes to business, politics, and religions. People trust the candidates in a democratic system, thus they vote for them to make their country a better place to live. Business is a complex web of a zillion functions and you need people to trust to give them such high responsibilities. Accountability is that feeling of liability towards a person who is supposed to pull off a certain task. You can wise yourself up by reading these quotes about the dynamics of Accountability.

Bob Woodward

It was accountability that Nixon feared.

Bob Woodward
Rajon Rondo

I take accountability for my actions.

Rajon Rondo
Malcolm X

Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.

Meaningful Groundwork Comparisons Responsibility
Malcolm X
Dalai Lama

It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them.

Meaningful Compassion Reality Responsibility
Dalai Lama
Saint Thomas Aquinas

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

Meaningful Motivation Responsibility Risk
Saint Thomas Aquinas
Thomas Hobbes

Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon with them, but they are the money of fools.

Men Money Weak Point Wealth
Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes

The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.

Life Meaningful Nature Power
Thomas Hobbes
Charles Kingsley

There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

Comparisons Responsibility Desire Differences
Charles Kingsley
Bob Woodward

Using these unnamed sources, if done properly, carefully and fairly, provides more accountability in government.

Government
Bob Woodward
James Comey

The lesson is the importance of never becoming untethered to oversight and accountability.

James Comey