Top 99 Accountability Quotes For The Workplace

Accountability is a crucial element in any successful workplace. It encourages responsibility, helps to build trust, and ultimately leads to greater success. Here are 99 inspiring quotes on accountability in the workplace:

1. “Accountability is the glue that ties commitment to results.” – Bob Proctor
2. “The price of greatness is responsibility.” – Winston Churchill
3. “The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.” – Ronald Reagan
4. “Accountability breeds response-ability.” – Stephen Covey
5. “You are responsible for your life. You can’t keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on.” – Oprah Winfrey
6. “The best way to predict your future is to create it.” – Abraham Lincoln
7. “Leadership is about taking responsibility, not making excuses.” – Mitt Romney
8. “A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.” – Arnold H. Glasow
9. “Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility…in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have…is the ability to take on responsibility.” – Michael Korda
10. “The price of greatness is responsibility.” – Winston Churchill
11. “Leadership is not about being in charge. It’s about taking care of those in your charge.” – Simon Sinek
12. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill
13. “The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.” – Steve Jobs
14. “Individual commitment to a group effort – that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.” – Vince Lombardi
15. “When you blame others, you give up your power to change.” – Robert Anthony
16. “The best way out is always through.” – Robert Frost
17. “The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely to be the one who dropped it.” – Lou Holtz
18. “The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.” – Phil Jackson
19. “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Nelson Mandela
20. “If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.” – Maya Angelou
21. “It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we must do what is required.” – Winston Churchill
22. “The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.” – Elbert Hubbard
23. “The greatest danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.” – Michelangelo
24. “I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.” – Thomas Jefferson
25. “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
26. “We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.” – Charles R. Swindoll
27. “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” – Wayne Gretzky
28. “I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.” – Michael Jordan
29. “You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.” – Henry Ford
30. “You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.” – Steve Jobs
31. “The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.” – Vince Lombardi
32. “The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.” – Steve Jobs
33. “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
34. “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Nelson Mandela
35. “The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.” – Winston Churchill
36. “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
37. “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” – Albert Schweitzer
38. “If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.” – Booker T. Washington
39. “The best revenge is massive success.” – Frank Sinatra
40. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas Edison
41. “I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” – Jimmy Dean
42. “The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” – Vidal Sassoon
43. “Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” – Sam Levenson
44. “People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed, and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the tendency is to get on a downward spiral that can even become a self-fulfilling prophecy.” – Tony Robbins
45. “The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential…these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.” – Confucius
46. “Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.” – Will Rogers
47. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt
48. “Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.” – Og Mandino
49. “You can’t have a million-dollar dream with a minimum-wage work ethic.” – Stephen C. Hogan
50. “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Peter Drucker
51. “Don’t wait for opportunity. Create it.” – George Bernard Shaw
52. “The only time you fail is when you fall down and stay down.” – Stephen Richards
53. “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
54. “It’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln
55. “You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.” – Zig Ziglar
56. “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs
57. “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Nelson Mandela
58. “I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.” – Michael Jordan
59. “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” – Albert Schweitzer
60. “Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.” – Christian D. Larson
61. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill
62. “The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.” – Steve Jobs
63. “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Nelson Mandela
64. “If you want to achieve greatness, stop asking for permission.” – Unknown
65. “If you don’t build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs.” – Tony Gaskins
66. “If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.” – Albert Einstein
67. “The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” – Vidal Sassoon