Quotes About Accountability

Keep a journal of disappointments, failures, and self-destructive actions. It's important to write this down because these are the kinds of things your self-serving bias will want to forget or minimize.

Sometimes our cruelest acts come not from meaning to do wrong but from not trying hard enough not to.

The problem with sin is that, if you have a conscience, you pay whether you're caught or not. Charles James's Diary

George Tenet has been the director of central intelligence since 1997, time enough to have changed the Agency's culture. He has failed. He should go.

Let's admit, without apology, what we do to each other. We know who our enemies are. We know.

leadership often means having to choose between two bad options and that good men have to make decisions that have bad consequences.

There is nothing beneath a leader.

We ask people to say, "I am a commitment to …" instead of "I'm committed to …" as a reminder that we are the commitment, we strive to embody its value and contribution, and we're fully accountable for its outcome. The commitment lives inside us and moves out from our center.

For example, in 2009 the British Government published, online, 700,000 individual documents that related to the expenses of British MPs. In response, the Guardian newspaper built an online platform to host these documents, and asked readers collectively to sift through them, a task too large for one person alone, and flag those that might be of interest, adding analysis if need be. A community of over 20,000 individuals engaged in what was, in effect, a public audit.

Freedom is only given to those who can handle the consequences that come with it

All of us, whether guilty or not, whether old or young, must accept the past. ... It is not a case of coming to terms with the past. That is not possible. It cannot be subsequently modified or undone.

There were many ways of not burdening one's conscience, of shunning responsibility, looking away, keeping mum. When the unspeakable truth of the Holocaust then became known at the end of the war, all too many of us claimed that they had not known anything about it or even suspected anything.

Similarly, when we as parents get in the habit of doing small things to make our children's lives easier—when we clean up after them, drive them places that they could walk to, fill out applications for our teenagers, pay teenagers' parking tickets, or regularly jump in to solve children's problems with peers, teachers, or coaches—we run the risk of making our children more fragile, entitled, and self-occupied.

It is a folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do.

nearly fifty percent of Christian men view pornography on a regular basis, and what is worse that nearly the same percentage of Pastors also succumb to that addiction.

Don't blame us," said my mother. "We didn't blow up half of Court, steal a dozen cars, call out a murderer in the middle of a crowd, or get our teenage friend crowned queen." "Actually," said Abe, "I did blow up half of Court.

You understand your responsibilities better than guardians twice your age. You'll do what you have to do to succeed.

Who... who are you?' I asked at last. It was true. I had left a body in the park, but seriously, what was I supposed to do? Drag him back to my hotel and tell my bellhop my friend had had too much to drink?

I couldn't help it," I said, knowing how lame that sounded. It was as bad as Angeline's "it's not my fault" mantra.

God," I moaned. "Do they use that stuff as rocket fuel?" "No one made you keep drinking it." "Hey, don't get preachy. Besides, I had to be polite." "Sure," she said.

Well, well, well," I said. "If it isn't the people responsible for unleashing Rose Hathaway on the world. You've got a lot to answer for.

We're all in charge of our own lives—and we have to live with the consequences of the choices we make.

We're all in charge of our own lives—and we have to live with the consequences of the choices we make." Those

She sighed loudly. "Oh, Adrian. This is just like the time you brought home a neighbor's puppy and seemed surprised when you found out you'd have to feed it every day." "Hey," I retorted. "We've fed this little guy plenty of times.