Compliance Quotes

• The real enemy of safety is not non-compliance but non-thinking

  Rob Long

  Real, Thinking, Safety

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• Compliance does not foster innovation, trust does. You can't sustain long-term innovation, for example, in a climate of distrust.

  Stephen Covey

  Long, Innovation, Climate

  Source: www.christiansarkar.com

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• Ensure compliance and be responsive to the feedback.

  Anne McLellan

  Feedback

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• Sustainable change, after all, depends not upon compliance with external mandates or blind adherence to regulation, but rather upon the pursuit of the greater good.

  Douglas B. Reeves

  Regulation, Adherence, Blind

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• More and more companies are reaching out to their suppliers and contractors to work jointly on issues of sustainability, environmental responsibility, ethics, and compliance.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Responsibility, Issues, Environmental

  Simon Mainwaring (2011). “We First: How Brands and Consumers Use Social Media to Build a Better World”, p.126, Macmillan

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• Defiance through compliance.

  Jasper Fforde

  Defiance

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• The biggest corporation, like the humblest private citizen, must be held to strict compliance with the will of the people as expressed in the fundamental law.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Law, People, Citizens

  Theodore Roosevelt (1904). “What Roosevelt Says ...”

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• Lack of compliance is hindering the investigation.

  Charlie Melancon

  Investigation

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• Acting after being asked is compliance. Acting without being asked is kindness.

  Ron Kaufman

  Kindness, Acting

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• There is no contest between the company that buys the grudging compliance of its work force and the company that enjoys the enterprising participation of its employees

  Ricardo Semler

  Leadership, Force, Enjoy

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• Control leads to compliance; autonomy leads to engagement.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Engagement, Autonomy

  Daniel H. Pink (2011). “Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us”, p.108, Penguin

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• There can be no true discipline without love...only compliance.

  Wes Fesler

  Discipline, Without Love

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• The industrial age brought compliance and compliance brought fear and fear brought us mediocrity.

  Seth Godin

  Age, Mediocrity

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• All I want is compliance with my wishes, after reasonable discussion.

  Winston Churchill

  Interesting, Wish, Want

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• What we are seeing now is customers shifting their attention from security products like firewalls and intrusion sensors, to the policies that need to be in place, and the technologies that help them enforce policy compliance.

  John W. Thompson

  Technology, Needs, Attention

  "Interview: Symantec's John Thompson talks about big picture security". Interview with Ed Scannell, www.infoworld.com. June 16, 2004.

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• A coerced "choice" does not reflect virtue, only compliance.

  Wendy McElroy

  Choices, Doe, Virtue

  "There Ought Not to Be a Law" by Wendy McElroy, www.foxnews.com. January 28, 2003.

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• To be disciplined does not mean being silent, abstaining, or doing only what one thinks one may undertake without risk; it is not the art of eluding responsibility; it means acting in compliance with orders received, and therefore finding in one's own mind, by effort and reflection, the possibility to carry out such orders. It also means finding in one's own will the energy to face the risks involved in execution.

  Ferdinand Foch

  Art, Mean, Responsibility

  "Precepts and Judgments". Book by Ferdinand Foch, 1919.

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• Someone once said that under the bell jar of compliance, the only thing that blooms is rage.

  Jane Fonda

  Bells, Jars, Conformity

  Jane Fonda (2006). “My Life So Far”, Ebury Press

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• Faith is obedience, not compliance.

  George MacDonald

  Faith, Obedience

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• Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Freedom

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There are many eyes that can detect and honor the prudent and household virtues; there are many that can discern Genius on his starry track, though the mob is incapable; but when that love which is all-suffering, all-abstaining, all-aspiring, which has vowed to itself, that it will be a wretch and also a fool in this world, sooner than soil its white hands by any compliances, comes into our streets and houses,--only the pure and aspiring can know its face, and the only compliment they can pay it, is to own it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Jesus, Eye, Hands

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.60, Courier Corporation

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• Life consists not of a series of illustrious actions or elegant enjoyments. The greater part of our time passes in compliance with necessities, in the performance of daily duties, in the removal of small inconveniences, in the procurement of petty pleasures; and we are well or ill at ease, as the main stream of life glides on smoothly, or is ruffled by small obstacles and frequent interruption.

  Samuel Johnson

  Life, Ease, Action

  Samuel Johnson, Hester Lynch Piozzi, James Boswell (1804). “The beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: consisting of maxims and observations, moral, critical, and miscellaneous: to which are now added biographical anecdotes of the doctor, selected from the works of Mrs. Piozzi;--his Life, recently published by Mr. Boswell, and other authentic testimonies; also his will, and the sermon he wrote for the late Doctor Dodd”

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• The respect for human rights is nowadays not so much a matter of having international standards, but rather questions of compliance with those standards.

  Michelle Bachelet

  Rights, Matter, Standards

  The David A. Morse Lecture, www.cfr.org. September 25, 2008.

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• While complying can be an effective strategy for physical survival, it's a lousy one for personal fulfillment. Living a satisfying life requires more than simply meeting the demands of those in control. Yet in our offices and our classrooms we have way too much compliance and way too little engagement. The former might get you through the day, but only the latter will get you through the night.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Night, Office, Survival

  Daniel H. Pink (2011). “Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us”, p.110, Penguin

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• Remember that every guilty compliance with the humors of the world, every sinful indulgence of our own passions, is laying up cares and fears for the hour of darkness; and that the remembrance of ill-spent time will strew our sick-bed with thorns, and rack our sinking spirits with despair.

  Reginald Heber

  Passion, Sick, Remembrance

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 547), 1895.

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