Quotes About Accountability

Instead of writing down what you're going to do (chances are you've been doing that your whole adult life anyway, and it doesn't make you any better at doing them), write down at the end of the day what you did do that day.

People on the success curve live a life of responsibility. They take full responsibility for who they are, where they are, and everything that happens to them.

A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

The predominant state of mind displayed by those people on the failure curve is blame. The predominant state of mind displayed by those people on the success curve is responsibility.

Something is easy not to do when it won't bankrupt you, destroy your career, ruin your relationships or wreck your health—today.

The Avengers have the same unfortunate tendency as ordinary law enforcement. Once we have a perpetrator to hang the crime on, we look no further.

during film sessions..."He would embarrass you deliberatley... run the play you messed up back and forth, back and forth for everyone in the room to see 100 times.

My job is to Ã¢â'¬Â¦ do my job. Lead, for God's sake. Keep my nose out of places where the machine is working, and stick it in deep where it isn't.

The fish rots from the head." Fish rotted all over, cell corruption being nonhierarchical and not caste-driven, but point taken.

You forgive if you can forgive yourself. Or live with what you've done. If you cannot live with what you've done, you cannot live with what others have done either.

You put yourself here. Set this trap for yourself. So if you feel trapped by it now, it is your own fault. - The Director

A destruction, an annihilation that only man can provoke, only man can prevent.

Each man was his own executioner and his own victim.

Because if we forget, we are guilty, we are accomplices.

I have tried to fight those who would forget. Because if we forget, we are guilty, we are accomplices.

If today I am only a question mark, he is responsible.

An act so absolute as that of killing involves not only the killer but, as well, those who have formed him. In murdering a man I was making them murderers.

Because if we forget, we are guilty, we are accomplices. And

there is "response" in responsibility.

Those who kept silent yesterday will remain silent tomorrow.

To be early is to be on time, to be on time is to be late, to be late is to be forgotten.

It is today for which we are responsible. God still owns tomorrow.

Tell me how you measure me and I'll tell you how I will behave.

We forget how ready people are to help. You can talk all you want about the evil spirit of man. But I don't think it's true. I think most of us are just dying to be good. And one way we can do that is to forgive the bad in others as well as in ourselves. I don't say don't hold people accountable. Help them be accountable. But to say those words to yourself or another? 'I forgive you'? Most powerful words in the world.