Quotes About Accountability

Once you recognize what is happening, you have a moral obligation to become involved. Perhaps all you can do is tell others, write letters, or contribute financially to those who are working to expose what is taking place. If you choose to do nothing, you become an accomplice to evil, and one day you will have to answer for your failure to act.

Sometimes, we need a few people in our lives who will calmly call our bluff.

Girls countin on me to be there like missin rubbers.

Yes I make mistakes that I dont ever make excuses for.

You gotta own it if you want it

I may not have done it with grace, but I fought my way into something better and more enlightened... My lesson here was you do not give up. You hold yourself accountable. You stay grateful. You hold on tight to your friends.

My lesson here was you do not give up. You hold yourself accountable. You stay grateful. You hold on tight to your friends.

if you were to lead successfully, whether a kingdom or a ship's company, the only standards worth bothering with were those you set yourself; those of others were—well, those of the mob; those who were led, who had neither the ability nor the courage to sit alone and make the decisions.

If once you enter the arena of intimacy with someone, you owe them honest explanations to the best of your ability. You must never blank people when intimate relations have arisen; you must never slam the door in their face.

The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.

Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

it is a terrible fact, but it is a fact, that few people have the imagination or the moral sensitivity to get very excited about actions which they don't participate in themselves.... and hence about which they feel no personal responsibility

Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought.

You're never going to get anywhere in life if you don't live up to your obligations.

Life is to blame for everything.

Now people think it's cool to have a baby, but it ain't cool to take care of it. We have to change that. You make your life for that baby. That's the future.

Your life is your own, to develop or to destroy. You can blame others little and yourself almost totally if that life is not a productive, worthy, full, and abundant one.

Will it be a great source of comfort to certain Canadian boys to know that the bullet that maimed them for life was made from Canadian nickel sold by the International Nickel Company?

I wear the chain I forged in life....I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.

If you are not taking responsibility for your state of consciousness, you are not taking responsibility for life.

After all, we are not children. It's time we planned our life.

On a personal level, as a Christian, it will not be Barbra Streisand I'm standing in front of when I have to make an accounting of my life.

There is a lesson we learn early and harmlessly, or late and traumatically - that there are things we can break that our parents can't fix.