Hold Yourself Accountable Quotes

“I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end.”

“A great man is hard on himself; a small man is hard on others.”

“Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.”

“If you want to feel proud of yourself, you've got to do things you can be proud of.”

“Circumstance does not change responsibility.”

“The highest level leadership is self-leadership. If you can't lead yourself to better health, relationships, or finances how do you expect anyone to want to follow you?”

“You have way more control of your personal income, health, happiness, family, values and freedom than you give yourself credit for. But it starts with personal responsibility.”

“You are where you are because of you.”

“I deserve is the most whiny, cry baby phrase in the english language.”

“Did you do what you needed to do today?”

“Put yourself in situations where you will succeed or fail by your own decisions and actions, and where that success or failure will be highly visible.”

“Don’t let yourself make excuses for not doing the things you want to do.”

“A wrongdoer is often a man who has left something undone, not always one who has done something.”

“It’s silly to try to escape other people’s faults. They are inescapable. Just try to escape your own.”

“People who can’t be questioned often end up doing questionable things.”

“An accountability partner you only contact when you are winning isn’t an accountability partner, it’s a cheerleader.”

“Data kills denial, which prevents disaster.”

“Don’t climb a single rung up the entitlement ladder. Demanding something you haven’t truly earned is a great way to get stuck.”

“You might be too bored to work on your dream, but just don’t buy into the lie that you are too busy.”

“Excuses are easy lies we tell ourselves to cover up our failures.”

“It’s easy to let yourself down - it’s tough to let other people down.”

“The man who counts his hours and kicks about his salary is a self-elected failure.”

“Explain the situation, accept responsibility, fix it, move forward.”

“Be proud of your choices, not your gifts.”

“‘It’s not my job’ means ‘I don’t want to participate in the solution.’”

“If you are willing to take credit when you win, you have to take credit when you don’t!”

“If you are wrong, admit it quickly and emphatically.”

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

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

“Accept the consequences of your actions in order to become the agent of your mental, physical, spiritual and material success.”

“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 so easy to be wrong - and to persist in being wrong - when the costs of being wrong are paid by others.”

“The great escape of our times is escape from personal responsibility for the consequences of one’s own behavior.”

“Blame is great for your ego; responsibility is great for your future.”

“It’s always easy to blame others. You can spend your entire life blaming the world, but your successes or failures are entirely your own.”

“If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?”

“Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others.”

“There is nothing more visible than what is secret, and nothing more manifest than what is minute. Therefore the superior man is watchful over himself, when he is alone.”

“The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.”

“It is one thing to make a mistake, and quite another thing not to admit it. People will forgive mistakes, because mistakes are usually of the mind, mistakes of judgment. But people will not easily forgive the mistakes of the heart, the ill intention, the bad motives, the prideful justifying cover-up of the first mistake.”

“You can’t talk your way out of a problem you behaved your way into!”

“Freedom is only part of the story and half the truth… That is why I recommend that the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast be supplanted by a Statue of Responsibility on the West Coast.”