Accountability

An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded.

An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded.

You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.

You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Winning needs no explanation, losing has no alibi.

Winning needs no explanation, losing has no alibi.

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.

A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.

A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.

Winston Churchill

Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.

Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.

He that does amiss never lacks excuses.

He that does amiss never lacks excuses.

Italian proverbs

He that excuses himself accuses himself.

He that excuses himself accuses himself.

French proverbs

Ninety-nine percent of failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Ninety-nine percent of failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

George Washington Carver

A strong leader accepts blame and gives the credit. A weak leader gives blame and accepts the credit.

A strong leader accepts blame and gives the credit. A weak leader gives blame and accepts the credit.

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

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

It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of our responsibilities.

It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of our responsibilities.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

Winston Churchill

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

We forge the chains we wear in life.

We forge the chains we wear in life.

Charles Dickens

You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.

You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.

A man is judged by his deeds, not by his words.

A man is judged by his deeds, not by his words.

Russian proverbs

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

John C. Maxwell

It's really amazing that in the age of unbelief, as a smart man called it, there isn't even more fraud. After all, with no God, there's no one to ever call you to account, and no accounting at all if you can get away with it.

It's really amazing that in the age of unbelief, as a smart man called it, there isn't even more fraud. After all, with no God, there's no one to ever call you to account, and no accounting at all if you can get away with it.

On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.

On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.