Quotes About Accountability

Judgmental, prophetic lone rangers do not last

He is a lover of his country who rebukes and does not excuse its sins. —FREDERICK DOUGLASS

The reason we is such a fun word is that half of the time it is used as a way to bring the speaker closer to others and the other half of the time to deflect responsibility away from the speaker. And

As with anything, it comes down to the choices you make, and the honesty you display.

Freedom is being able to live with the consequences of your decisions.

There was nothing particularly extraordinary about the crimes he committed, Barbra thought, except that when he was caught, he was never held accountable, and even that was no big surprise.)

I've had to be a man since I was 12 or 13. I had a job. And I was playing the piano for people twice my age. Handling responsibility is what makes a man a man.

To play the Boss is Easy but to be it is a Different Story

When things worked, they were theirs; when they failed, they were his.

It was a bunch of explanations but not an excuse. The bottom line is that no matter why I did the things I did, I always had a choice in doing them.

The way you build your bed is how you will sleep in it",

Judges live with shadows behind them.

invite her to help you pick out a ringtone on your phone. Then set the timer together for an agreed-upon time. When it goes off, it is time to go.

I reckon that blaming people fixes nothing. You're the only person who is going to sort you out. No-one else really can - or really cares, enough. That's what Nepalis know - better than anyone. That's our Western disease. Don't take responsibility. Take on a lawyer!

If you come home with your panties still on, I am never speaking to you again.

Blame the mother," Mac interjected. "Children are what they've been taught." "I

You are not responsible for everything that doesn't work out and everything that does work out is not a matter of coincidence.

If the child of the alcoholic, not unlike the alcoholic, is ever to mature, there must be accountability. Part of having a strong sense of self is to be accountable for one's actions. No matter how much we explore motives or lack of motives, we are what we do. We take credit for the good and we must take credit for the bad. The key is to take responsibility for all of our behavior.

Employees producing mediocre returns for owners should expect their pay to reflect this shortfall

Newspaper stories that were originally written to satisfy our daily hunger for idle and impersonal Schadenfreude—to excite and divert and be forgotten the next week—now take their place among serious sources of information and fact, and are treated as if they themselves were not simply raising the question of what happened and who is good and who is bad. I

You three have done quite enough today: all of you and your feckless, treacherous god.

a person doesn't demonstrate independence by rebelling. You do it by shouldering responsibilities, making wise, thoughtful decisions.

Perhaps selling your children, your future, just happened one bad decision at a time.

The futility of action does not absolve one from the failure to act. -