Quotes About Accountability

We want to learn the lesson and not repeat the experience. But in truth, we do not like to look too closely at what we did; our introspection is limited. Our natural response is to blame others, circumstances, or a momentary lapse of judgment.

Excuses satisfy no one and apologies make everyone uncomfortable

If you feel lost and confused, if you lose your sense of direction, if you cannot tell the difference between friend and foe, you have only yourself to blame.

What people say about themselves does not matter; people will say anything. Look at what they have done; deeds do not lie. You must also apply this logic to yourself. In looking back at a defeat, you must identify the things you could have done differently.

This means that you yourself are largely the agent of anything bad that happens to you. With more prudence, wiser policies, and greater vision, you could have avoided the danger. So when something goes wrong, look deep into yourself—not in an emotional way, to blame yourself or indulge your feelings of guilt, but to make sure that you start your next campaign with a firmer step and greater vision.

ashamed of yourself? What do you think your father, my old friend, would have said if he had been here to-night, and had known of all your goings on?

WHOSE hour, you should rather say,' replied the Badger. 'Why, Toad's hour! The hour of Toad! I said I would take him in hand as soon as the winter was well over, and I'm going to take him in hand to-day!

For instance, when I flung the cat out of an upper window (though I did it from no ill-feeling, and it didn't hurt the cat), I was ready, after a moment's reflection, to own I was wrong, as a gentleman should. But was the matter allowed to end there? I trow not.

The search for liberation is a rejection of the responsibilities of freedom in favour of a release into the irresponsibility of rights.

One does not have to be without sin to castigate someone else for being a rapist or murderer (386).

I believe there are failures of character, like I said before. That's a sin.

Assignments without deadlines are far better at producing guilt than stimulating action.

As much as others may need to change, or we may want them to change, the only person we can continually inspire, prod, and shape—with any degree of success—is the person in the mirror. There

BUT WILL IT WORK FOR ME? After decades of tireless research, we have now identified about two-dozen accountability skills that, when used at the right time and delivered in the right fashion, separated positive deviants from everyone else. The questions remaining were (1) when taught, would people actually use the skills, and (2) if they did, would doing so yield better results?

In the worst companies, poor performers are first ignored and then transferred. In good companies, bosses eventually deal with problems. In the best companies, everyone holds everyone else accountable—regardless of level or position. The path to high productivity passes not through a static system, but through face-to-face conversations.

Your life today is the sum total of your choices. So if you're not happy with it, look back at your choices and start making different ones. Even if you are struck by lighting and injured, you made choices that led you to that spot at a particular time - and you get to choose how you feel about it afterward.

The trouble is so many people run around avoiding things their entire lives. It's just too uncomfortable for them to look in the mirror at the roughest and darkest parts of themselves. Or they're terrified of spending five seconds looking bad and saying, "You know what, I fucked up. This is on me. I didn't do this or think about that, and so this happened. But here's what I'm going to do to help, and here's what I'm going to do next time.

??ng ch? trích mái nhà hàng xóm nhi?u tuy?t trong khi cá»­a nhà mình không s?ch.

it always falls on the sober to pay for the sins of the drunk.

Because it always falls on the sober to pay for the sins of the drunk.

Every sinner must be punished in a manner befitting his sin!

There is only what you do and what you don't do

there is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft. Do you understand that? When you kill a man, you steal a life, Baba said. You steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness. Do you see?

I understood the nature of my curse: I was going to get away with it.