Quotes About Accountability

Don't listen to their words, fix your attention on their deeds.

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility.

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.

Emotional Vampires never grow up. Throughout their lives, they see themselves as victims of fate and the unpredictability of others. Stuff happens, and they just respond to it. As a result, they have no opportunity to learn from their mistakes, and they just keep on making the same ones over and over.

Here is the Golden Rule of sound citizenship, the first and greatest lesson in the study of politics: You get the same order of criminality from any State to which you give power to exercise it; and whatever power you give the State to do things FOR you carries with it the equivalent power to do things TO you.

Words have consequences.

It was really his fault—and he realized it now—that the man had made such a racket. Would the Master punish him? Perhaps. Humans have such odd ideas of Justice. He—

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.

O ser humano mal reconhece os demônios de sua criação

being in a position to know and nevertheless shunning knowledge creates direct responsibility for the consequences...

At headquarters, where everyone lived under the tremendous pressure of responsibility, probably nothing was more welcome than a dictate from above. That meant being freed of a decision and simultaneously being provided with an excuse for failure.

La culpa te cierra puertas.

One of the mistakes I made was placing too much trust in Montesinos.

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

We have become aware of the responsibility for our attitude towards the dark pages in our history. We have understood that bad service is done to the nation by those who are impelling to renounce that past.

Persuaso che la vita non è già destinata ad essere un peso per molti,e una festa per alcuni, ma per tutti un impegno, del quale ognuno renderà conto, cominciò da fanciullo a pensare come potesse render la sua utile e santa.

Se voi sapete ch'io abbia, per pusillanimità, per qualunque rispetto, trascurato qualche mio obbligo ditemelo, francamente, fattemi ravvedere; affinchè dov'è mancato l'esempio, supplisca almeno la confessione.

Coloro i quali avevano impugnato così risolutamente, e così a lungo, che ci fosse vicino a loro, tra loro, un germe di male, che poteva, per mezzi naturali, propagarsi e fare una strage; non potendo ormai negare il propagamento di esso, e non volendo attribuirlo a que' mezzi (che sarebbe stato confessare a un tempo un grand'inganno e una gran colpa), erano tanto più disposti a trovarci qualche altra causa, a menar buona qualunque ne venisse messa in campo.

Such is the misfortune of men in high stations in certain periods and conditions - for while they seldom find anyone to tell them of their failings, they have no lack of people courageous enough to reprove them for their good deeds.

They know their crime," she said. "They know their shame.

In a democracy, a politician who didn't know where he stood might lose an election. In Russia, he'd lose everything.

Most members of the political elites of north-east Africa have come to resemble gangsters rather than civic political leaders.

Inexperienced, or insecure, leaders are often tempted to make any infraction a capital offence.