Quotes About Accountability

Boss, you're nitpicking to avoid admitting that it was your fault, not mine.

I started to try to talk sense but was cut off by a giant voice from everywhere: "YOU ARE NOW BEING JUDGED!

Minerva, if I sell a horse, I won't guarantee that it has a leg on each corner; the buyer must count them himself.

Oh, no, Sharpie. I've stood my watch; it's somebody else's turn. Now that you have resigned, we have no organization.

cops and courts no longer protect citizens, so citizens must protect themselves.

Ä°dareli bir demokrasi muhteÅŸem bir ÅŸeydir, Manuel, idare edenler için... en büyük gücü de 'Özgür'ün 'sorumluluk sahibi ' olarak tan?mland??? ve neyin 'sorumsuz ' olduÄŸunu idarecilerin belirlediÄŸi 'özgür bas?n'd?r.

We could give our children the most wonderful blessing if only we would stop passing the buck to them.

In existential experienced life, we notice that we are making bets and choices all the time, and are responsible for being alert and aware enough to make them intelligently and to revise them when necessary. We cannot blame everything on The Real Universe, since it is only a model we have created to deal with experienced life. If the model is not good enough, we do not blame it but revise and improve it.

I do the best I can to approve and disapprove only of my own behavior. I don't always succeed, but I try. I'm trying now and I'm going to keep at it.

if you lay back and let oblivion roll over you, it will be your fault.

What we have here," I said, "is a roomful of culprits, with varying levels of culpritude.

You do the best you can and you deal with the consequences. It's all there is.

Freedom of the press is a flaming sword. Use it wisely, hold it high, guard it well.

He owes us more then that.

You do the best you can, as decently as you can, and you accept the consequences.

You're not telling us that these promises were not made; you're just saying they don't have to be kept?

It was the familiar "rogue agent defense" — the agents had no authority to make the promises, and therefore the promises were not legal.

Every leader who wants to make significant change needs a "resident son of a bitch" who can make hard decisions without regard to rank or personality.

Every time we turn our heads the other way when we see the law flouted, when we tolerate what we know to be wrong, when we close our eyes and ears to the corrupt because we are too busy or too frightened, when we fail to speak up and speak out, we strike a blow against freedom and decency and justice.

Do what has to be done, regardless of the consequences.

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.

Nobody was ever meant to remember or invent what he did with every cent.

What progress has your client made over the last month, the last week, and yesterday? • Are they on track to meet their goals? • How have you been showing up as a coach (stances, EQ, sensing, meeting the clients where they are)?

It is your own bad strategies, not the unfair opponent, that are to blame for your failures. You are responsible for the good and bad in your life.