Quotes: Accountability

Accountability The willingness to take full responsibility for our choices.

Accountability breeds response-ability.”
Stephen R. Covey

“It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable.”
Moliere

“Employers today are looking to their leaders to think more strategically. No longer is it acceptable to focus on the day to day issues. The team is accountable for the day to day decisions.”
Catherine Pulsifer

“Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.”
Denis Waitley

“We are accountable only to ourselves for what happens to us in our lives.”
Mildred Newman

“I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life. Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have – life itself.”
Walter Anderson

“A good coach will hold the team accountable for both their actions and their results.”
Catherine Pulsifer

“Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a problem they can’t solve and it comes up to you, listen to both sides and then pick one or the other. This places solid accountability on the winner to make it work. Condition your people to avoid compromise.”
Robert Townsend

“My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you I the best place for the next moment.”
Oprah Winfrey

“To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end in life.”
Spinoza

“The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.”
John Stuart Mill

“If we want unity, we must all be unifiers. If we want accountability, each of us must be accountable for all we do.”
Christine Gregoire

Don’t get up from the feast of life without paying for your share of it.”
W. R. Inge

“You don’t choose the day you enter the world and you don’t chose the day you leave. It’s what you do in between that makes all the difference.”
Anita Septimus

“My belief is that personal freedom cannot grow beyond personal responsibility. The more people that learn to be fully accountable for their lives, the more freedom each of us can enjoy and the more fulfilling all of our lives will be.”
Reed Konsler

“God does not want us to do extraordinary things; He wants us to do ordinary things extraordinarily well.”
Bishop Gore

“Remember that you are unique. If that has not been fulfilled, then something wonderful has been lost.”
Martha Graham

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

“The ancient Romans had a tradition: whenever one of their engineers constructed an arch, as the capstone was hoisted into place, the engineer assumed accountability for his work in the most profound way possible: he stood under the arch.”
Michael Armstrong

Quotes: Acceptance

Acceptance  Embracing life on its own terms. Acceptance allows us to bend without breaking in the face of tests.

Quotes on Acceptance (Source acknowledged if known):

“Being happy doesn’t mean that everything is perfect. It means that you’ve decided to look beyond the imperfections.”
 
“When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.”
Peace Pilgrim quotes (American Teacher and Spiritual leader and Peace Prophet, 1908-1981)
 
“Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves – regret for the past and fear of the future.”
Fulton Oursler
 
“A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are.”
 
“There comes a time when you have to stand up and shout: This is me damn it! I look the way I look, think the way I think, feel the way I feel, love the way I love! I am a whole complex package. Take me… or leave me. Accept me – or walk away! Do not try to make me feel like less of a person, just because I don’t fit your idea of who I should be and don’t try to change me to fit your mold. If I need to change, I alone will make that decision. When you are strong enough to love yourself 100%, good and bad – you will be amazed at the opportunities that life presents you.”
© 2000 Stacey Charter
 
“As you become more clear about who you really are, you’ll be better able to decide what is best for you – the first time around.”
Oprah Winfrey
 
“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there.”
Jalal ad-Din Rumi quotes (Persian Poet and Mystic, 1207-1273)
 
“Deep down even the most hardened criminal is starving for the same thing that motivates the innocent baby: Love and acceptance”
Lily Fairchilde
 
“A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star.”
Edwin Hubbel Chapin quotes (American Clergyman, Author, Speaker, Writer and Pastor, 1814-1880)

“Some people confuse acceptance with apathy, but there’s all the difference in the world. Apathy fails to distinguish between what can and what cannot be helped; acceptance makes that distinction. Apathy paralyzes the will-to-action; acceptance frees it by relieving it of impossible burdens.”
Arthur Gordon

“The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Acceptance is not submission; it is acknowledgement of the facts of a situation. Then deciding what you’re going to do about it.”
Kathleen Casey Theisen
 
“One already wet does not feel the rain.”
Philemon Turkish Proverb

“If a ship has been sunk, I can’t bring it up. If it is going to be sunk, I can’t stop it. I can use my time much better working on tomorrow’s problem than by fretting about yesterday’s. Besides, if I let those things get me, I wouldn’t last long.”
Admiral Ernest J. King
 
“Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest pygmy that he can?”
Henry David Thoreau
 
“Accept your humanness as well as your divinity, totally and without reserve.”
 
“When you are outraged by somebody’s impudence, ask yourself at once, “Can the world exist without impudent people?” It cannot; so do not ask for impossibilities.”
Marcus Aurelius Antonius