Quotes About Accountability

The fun of talk is to explore, but much of it and all that is irresponsible should not be written. Once written you have to stand by it. You may have said it to see whether you believed it or not.

Clearly I miss Him, having been brought up in religion. But now a man must be responsible to himself.

But I won't keep a count of people I have killed as though it were a trophy record or a disgusting business like notches in a gun, he told himself. I have a right to not keep count and I have a right to forget them. No, himself said. You have no right to forget anything. You have no right to shut your eyes to any of it nor any right to forget any of it nor to soften it nor to change it.

Yes. But we really ought to know it. How it's run. How it works. Who are the crooks and the tyrants and how to get rid of them.

Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk... that will teach you to keep your mouth shut. ---Ernest Hemingway

He did not want any consequences. He did not want any consequences ever again. He wanted to live along without consequences.

Road to hell paved with unbought stuffed dogs. Not my fault.

The bill always comes

But you haven't got the boy, he thought. You have only yourself...

We must live with our own conscience. Each and every one of us must live with his own conscience.

like Ned was killed. We made her go and we hired

Most people who describe themselves as visionaries are actually saying something quite different. They are abdicating their responsibility for the details. Details matter. The more someone or something matters to us, the more the details relating to them matter to us.

Ownership is not about possession; it is about responsibility. What you own matters far less than what you take ownership for. What you take responsibility for is far more important than what you think you own.

Jesus provides a perfect example of why ownership is not about taking possession of what's in front of you but about taking responsibility for what has been entrusted to you. The men who multiplied the master's wealth were not the owners of that wealth, but they did take ownership of it.

Debemos disparar la flecha y reconocer que hay cosas que están fuera de nuestro control, y debemos golpear la flecha y aceptar responsabilidad por lo que sí está en nuestro control. Debemos disparar y golpear, pero lo que no debemos hacer es detenernos.

You're saying she doesn't do her work? So take care of your business! Fail her like a normal kid. The failure will be between me and my daughter, then. You won't like it if her failure is between me and you.

She says, "I am so sick of the excuses

I do not want you children to use my untimely death, or any setback that life may deliver, as an excuse not to take responsibility for yourselves.

Our actions are the ground we walk on.

An apology is also an admission of guilt

LOS REPORTEROS no trabajamos para ser queridos. Es nuestra responsabilidad hacer preguntas duras a los ricos y poderosos

This isn't just 'the way things are.' This is the way you made them. This is the result of your choices, your actions. Yours.

If we are honest with ourselves, we can list almost everything that's ever happened to us - and see how we helped create it.

Leviticus 24:16