Quotes About Accountability

victims are often victims of themselves.

One lets you off the hook, and the other forces you to think.

Me regañó: "La razón por la que te castigo no es porque le hayas roto el diente a tu hermana, sino porque huiste.

the individual lacks internal control and discipline.

Yes," said rich dad. "Some people say I exploit people because I don't pay as much as the sugar plantation or the government. I say the people exploit themselves. It's their fear, not mine.

I know people who are losing their jobs or their houses, and they blame technology or the economy or their boss. Sadly, they fail to realize that they might be the problem. Old ideas are their biggest liability. It is a liability simply because they fail to realize that while that idea or way of doing something was an asset yesterday, yesterday is gone.

Algunas personas dicen que exploto a la gente porque no le pago tanto como la plantación de azúcar o el gobierno. Lo que yo digo es que la gente se explota a sí misma. Es su miedo el que acepta esa situación, no el mío.

then blame them for the problems we had as an organization.

Your first step in taking responsibility is to quit blaming others and quit blaming the world. You must accept that opportunity is everywhere. Opportunity is all the time. It does not disappear in the difficult times, in fact it's even greater.

If you think I'm the problem, then you have to change me. If you realize that you're the problem, then you can change yourself, learn something, and grow wiser. Most people want everyone else in the world to change but themselves. Let me tell you, it's easier to change yourself than everyone else.

Those who don't learn that lesson spend their lives blaming everyone else and waiting for a big break—or decide to play it safe and never risk, or win, big.

but you haven't kept your word

If you think I'm the problem, then you have to change me. If you realize that you're the problem, then you can change yourself, learn something and grow wiser. Most people want everyone else in the world to change themselves.

Stop blaming me and thinking I'm the problem. If you think I'm the problem, then you have to change me. If you realize that you're the problem, then you can change yourself, learn something, and grow wiser.

Never make promises you don't plan to keep.

Steal not this book for fear of shame For on it is the owners name And when you die the Lord will say Where is the book you stole away And when you say you do not know The Lord will say go down below.

I ought to grow up successfully, and I'm sure it will be my own fault if I don't. I feel it's a great responsibility because I have only one chance. If I don't grow up right I can't go back and begin over again. - Anne Shirley

Good behavior in the first place is more important than theatrical apologies afterwards.

from Mr. Bell. Sorry, miss! Sorry isn't going to help matters any. You'd better go and look at the havoc that animal has made in my oats Ã¢â'¬Â¦ trampled them from center to circumference, miss. I am very sorry, repeated Anne firmly, but perhaps if you kept your fences in better repair Dolly might not have broken in. It is your part

I fatti di tutti sono i fatti di nessuno.

Susan Baker,' she says to me, 'I hope you never light a fire with coal-oil. Or leave oily rags lying around, Susan. They have been known to cause spontaneous combustion in less than an hour. How would you like to stand and watch this house burn down, Susan, knowing it was your fault?' Well, Miss Dew dear, I had my laugh on her over that. It was that very night she set her curtains on fire and the yells of her are ringing in my ears yet.

Fark?nda olmadan kötülük yapmak çok kolayd?r, öyle deÄŸil mi?

I feel it's a great responsibility because I have only the one chance. If I don't grow up right I can't go back and begin over again.

Where is my conscience, Anne? I want to know. Is it in my stomach?