88 Accountability Quotes To Motivate Your Growth

“Accountability separates the wishers in life from the action-takers that care enough about their future to account for their daily actions.”

John Di Lemme

“When you blame others, you give up your power to change.”

Dr. Robert Anthony

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

Josiah Stamp

“Ninety-nine percent of all failures come from people who have a habit of making excuses.”

George Washington Carver

“The key to growth is to learn to make promises and to keep them.”

Stephen Covey

“Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.”

C. S. Lewis

“If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don’t have integrity, nothing else matters.”

Alan K. Simpson

“Trust, honesty, humility, transparency and accountability are the building blocks of a positive reputation. Trust is the foundation of any relationship.”

Mike Paul

“The moment you take responsibility for everything in your life is the moment you can change anything in your life.”

Hal Elrod

“It takes a great deal of courage to stand alone even if you believe in something very strongly.”

Reginald Rose

“It’s not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives. It’s what we do consistently.”

Tony Robbins

“Accountability is the measure of a leader’s height.”

Jeffrey Benjamin

“Accountability breeds response-ability.”

Stephen Covey

“Accountability is the glue that ties commitment to results.”

Bob Proctor

“It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one’s acts.”

Mahatma Gandhi

“Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without strategy.”

General H. Norman Schwarzkopf

“If you’re not willing to accept accountability for your actions, then you’re not truly living.”

Nathan Dunlap

“Take accountability… Blame is the water in which many relationships drown.”

Steve Maraboli

“You can’t hold someone else accountable without holding yourself accountable.”

John Miller

“Blaming others is nothing more than excusing yourself.”

Robin Sharma

“The man who blames others has a long way to go on his journey. He has not even taken the first step.”

Max Heindel

“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

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

Joe Dumars

“Having authority implies accountability. If you reject the blame for failures under your watch, people reject your leadership.”

Rick Warren

“When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.”

Louis Nizer

“To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.”

Douglas Adams

“There’s not a chance we’ll reach our full potential until we stop blaming each other and start practicing personal accountability.”

John Miller

“Intentions do not insulate us from the consequences of our actions.”

Jon D Harrison

“Make yourself accountable and your employees will hold themselves to a high standard.”

David J. Greer

“Never promise more than you can perform.”

Publilius Syrus

“I come from a world where accountability and accomplishments matter, and where titles and rhetoric take a back seat to results.”

Carly Fiorina

“The vast possibilities of our great future will become realities only if we make ourselves responsible for those realities.”

Gifford Pinchot

“There’s responsibility, but there’s also accountability. You have to be accountable for your actions. You have to stand at your locker when things are going bad.”

Derek Jeter

“Every day we have a choice. We can take the easier road, the more cynical road, which is a road sometimes based on a dream of a past that never was, fear of each other, distancing and blame, or we can take the much more difficult path, the road of transformation, transcendence, compassion, and love, but also accountability and justice.”

Jacqueline Novogratz

“Blame and victim thinking are so ingrained into the fabric of our society it’s hard to find a role model anywhere who simply practices personal accountability in all things.”

John G. Miller

“Everybody’s got the potential for great good and great wrong in them, but it’s the choices we make that define who we really are.”

Charles de Lint

“Vulnerability is the birthplace of love, belonging, joy, courage, empathy, and creativity. It is the source of hope, empathy, accountability, and authenticity. If we want greater clarity in our purpose or deeper and more meaningful spiritual lives, vulnerability is the path.”

Brené Brown

“Accountability doesn’t mean apologizing.”

Nate Silver

“I think self-reliance and self-responsibility and self-accountability will help you as a parent, a teacher, as a citizen as a friend.”

Henry Rollins

“Professional accountability is a good thing. Without it, excellence is merely a pipe dream and even average performance isn’t a realistic expectation.”

Leon F. “Lee” Ellis

“Good men prefer to be accountable.”

Michael Edwardes

“On one side of accountability is courage, on the other is freedom.”

Jean Hamilton

“Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.”

Les Brown

“Accountability is a statement of personal promise, both to yourself and to the people around you, to deliver specific defined results.”

Brian Dive

“Transparency increases credibility and accountability.”

Park Won-soon

“Dignity is the reward of holding oneself accountable to conscience.”

Wes Fesler

“Being there every week for my teammates is really important to me. It’s about accountability. I hear stuff about the ‘toughest quarterback in the league’ and all that; what’s that mean?”

Peyton Manning

“The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right.”

William Safire

“Accountability is essential to personal growth, as well as team growth. How can you improve if you’re never wrong? If you don’t admit a mistake and take responsibility for it, you’re bound to make the same one again.”

Pat Summitt

“Ability is a wonderful thing, but its value is greatly enhanced by dependability. Ability implies repeatability and accountability.”

Robert A. Heinlein

“I learned in an extremely hard way that the accountability falls with me.”

Stephen Baldwin

“Success is more permanent when you achieve it without destroying your principles.”

Walter Cronkite

“Character is more than a man-to-his-God humility, for it involves transparency and accountability to others, not merely a private quest for purity.”

Jack W. Hayford

“The word accounting comes from the word accountability. If you are going to be rich, you need to be accountable for your money.”

Robert Kiyosaki

The twin sister to autonomy and freedom is responsibility and accountability. You cannot have one with out the other. If someone is given an area of responsibility, not only must they be set free to do it, they must also be held accountable for what they do. Accountability clarifies freedom. In the teams and companies where you see boundary confusion, power struggles, control, over-reaching of one’s line of responsibility, you will also see lapses in accountability as well.”

Henry Cloud

“Self-examination is the process of accountability to your soul…It is far better to “become” your truth than to speak your truth. Self-examination is the practice of becoming your truth.”

Caroline Myss

“Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency.”

Barack Obama

“When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else.”

David Brin

“You will never become who you want to be if you keep blaming everyone else for who you are now.”

John Spence

“You are responsible for your life. You can’t keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on.”

Oprah Winfrey

“You fail all the time, but you aren’t a failure until you start blaming someone else.”

Bum Phillips

“You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.”

Henry Ford

“If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.”

Les Brown

“You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.”

Abraham Lincoln

“Never blame another person for your personal choices – you are still the one who must live out the consequences of your choices.”

Caroline Myss

“The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.”

Albert Ellis

“Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.”

Sigmund Freud

“Adopt and apply self-accountability of your actions before time holds you accountable for that. It breezes worth, and value of character and life in society.”

Ehsan Sehgal

“Personal power is the ability to take action.”

Tony Robbins

“The choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.”

Eleanor Roosevelt

“A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent.”

Douglas MacArthur

“Great leaders do not fear accountability because it is part of their responsibility.”

Gift Gugu Mona

“Accountability is accepting the fact that the soup’s too salty, that there’s only one saltshaker in the kitchen, and that I’m the only one holding it. And an inability to accept any one of these three realities means that I prefer to spend my life blaming others for recipes gone bad because of the way that I handled the ingredients.”

Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Accountability is the only real beginning to change.”

Daniel Abbott

“People can change, can rise up out of their ignorance, but only if they so choose.”

A.D. Aliwat

“Your personal development doesn’t end when the relationship begins; everything in life requires consistent care to maintain. A working relationship involves accountability.”

Victoria L. White

“The greatest gift we can give our children is teaching them accountability.”

Ron Baratono

“Accountability is the glue that bonds commitment to results.”

Will Craig

“You’ll blame your conditions, others will blame your decisions.”

Freequill

“Leaders inspire accountability through their ability to accept responsibility before they place blame.”

Courtney Lynch

“When you are entrusted with a secret, you become irrevocably accountable for what you do or don’t do after your mind is colored by the knowledge of it.”

Joyce Rachelle

“Blaming others is an act of refusing to take responsibility. When a person can’t accept the fact or the reality, they blamed another person or the situation instead of taking accountability.”

Dee Dee Artner

“Accountability and self-responsibility are critical to our success in personal, professional and public life. However, we often look for those character traits in others, rather than inculcating them in ourselves.”

Vishwas Chavan

For most people, blaming others is a subconscious mechanism for avoiding accountability. In reality, the only thing in your way is YOU.”

Steve Maraboli

“Continuously lying to yourself is just as fatal as suicide; only slower. Take ownership of your life, be accountable to you.”

Noel DeJesus

“People have forgotten this truth,” the fox said. “But you mustn’t forget it. You become responsible forever for what you’ve tamed. You’re responsible for your rose.”

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“Eventually we all have to accept full and total responsibility for our actions, everything we have done, and have not done.”

Hubert Selby Jr.

“We are free to choose our paths, but we can’t choose the consequences that come with them.”

Sean Covey