Quotes About Accountability

In such dreadful times as these no one can do more than choose his own road according to his conscience, and bear the consequences of his choice, whatever they may be.

You have never sought to make light of your failings, I do not think you need fear our too harsh condemnation. You have been commonly your own sternest judge." So he had, but that, well handled, can be one way of evading and forestalling the judgements of others.

On almost all of which counts he was in error, but since no one was ever likely to tell him so, there was no harm done.

And there was a stocky black guy named Desmond that Raylan met who went after offenders who missed their court dates.

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And what great thing have you done? asked the peasant. We? Oh, nothing. Then to the oven! he replied. The

Good words., I replied. But deeds must prove it also.

Honest people don't keep their actions hidden…

A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o'clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.

Harm is one of those things that I always mean to keep clear of, but somehow my intentions and me don't chime as they ought, and people will get hit with stones that I throw at my neighbor's dogs...

Who counts the wampum of the night to see that none is due?

But I also knew in my heart that I wouldn't cover for my son if he committed a terrible crime. Any crime. I wouldn't lie for him. I wouldn't obstruct justice for him. I would stand by him, but I would also want him to confess and truly repent and bear responsibility for his actions. I would want him to earn and deserve his forgiveness.

He tells me they do, but it's out of service. I feel a wave of relief, until he hands me a cordless phone from behind the bar and says I'm welcome to use it if it's not long distance. I stare down at the receiver, thinking that this is precisely why Scottie, my best friend since the first grade, told me to stay in and not drink. Batten down the hatches, he had coached me from our hometown of Pewaukee, Wisconsin, explaining that I wasn't ready to be tested by a buzz

You can have anything in life that you really want, but you must be prepared to take the responsibilities that go with it. God is ready the moment you are.

They have gone. And the tunnel is about to close. So, boys, I am looking for someone to blame.

Some people just needed to be stolen from.

Spider-Man's Uncle Ben said it better: With great power comes great responsibility.

Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness

An ignorant person is inclined to blame others for his own misfortune. To blame oneself is proof of progress. But the wise man never has to blame another or himself.

It is better to do wrong seldom and to own it, and to act right for the most part, than seldom to admit that you have done wrong and to do wrong often.

Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back.

An uninstructed person will lay the fault of his own bad condition upon others. Someone just starting instruction will lay the fault on himself. Some who is perfectly instructed will place blame neither on others nor on himself.

No one is ever unhappy because of someone else.

It is the act of an ill-instructed man to blame others for his own bad condition; it is the act of one who has begun to be instructed, to lay blame on himself; and of one whose instruction is completed, neither to blame another, nor himself.