Quotes About Accountability

It is imperative to base your life on yourself, to take responsibility for your own happiness.

Try to realize, and truly realize, that what stands between you and a different life are matters of responsible choice.

Nothing is inevitable in life. People make choices, and those choices have results, and we all live with the results.

Never do anything in life if you would be ashamed of seeing it printed on the front page of your hometown newspaper for your friends and family to see.

If your ride through life is not as smooth as you would like it to be, blaming the road may not be the answer.

Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you, and act accordingly.

Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome'. You must be willing to fire.

We ourselve are the authors of almost all our woes and griefs, of which we so unreasonably complain.

My life is a series of dumb choices

Taking responsibility for your own life is not a Left wing idea

Yoga means we take responsibility for the tasks in our life. Whatever we are supposed to have karmically, life gives us. The question is: how do we handle it?

Once you put human life in human hands, you have started on a slippery slope that knows no boundaries.

Every thought you produce, anything you say, any action you do, it bears your signature.

Some people prefer the passenger role, because it imposes no real pressure to decide or stand accountable for their life results.

Start making excuses and there's no end to it. I can't live that kind of life.

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.

There is only one person responsible for the quality of life you live and that person is you.

What I always say is, 'Do every job you're in like you're going to do it for the rest of your life, and demonstrate that ownership of it.'

People don't like the idea of consequences. They want to be able to live their life freely and do what they want to do without any consequences. And we know that's just not the way life is.

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Those who have not sown anything during their responsible life will have nothing to reap in the future.

If a felon attacks you and lives, he will reasonably conclude that he can do it again. By submitting to him, you not only imperil your own life, but you jeopardize the lives of others.

A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself. You have a chance to select from pretty elegant furnishings.

You have to assemble your life yourself - action by action.