Quotes About Accountability

I already know when I'm being bad, and I don't need to be nagged by my underwear.

Can you imagine what it's like to be a legal malpractice lawyer? The clients are the worst! They're all lawyers!

The way it works in real life is that guilt is proportionate. In other words, there are degrees of guilt.

History taught that the cover-up was always worse than the crime.

on your hands. First prong. To reopen

You can't stay on track when your own government is derailing you

all mistakes are my own

And that's all life was—a series of choices and their consequences.

A good boss asks what part she could have played in the problem. And then she asks herself what she can do better next time.

Blame was a luxury they could no longer afford.

History provides a great example but a terrible excuse.

For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive what is due him for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad. 2 Corinthians 5:10

It is harsh enough for each man to bear his own wound. But he who leads bears the wounds of all who follow him.

Count the deed, not the thought.

When people have the freedom to choose, they choose wrong, every single time.

You know, sometimes it's nice to just have someone to blame, even if it has to be yourself, even if it doesn't make sense.

We did it, he muttered to Ekaterin, now perching on the chair arm. Why didn't anybody stop us? Why aren't there more regulations about this sort of thing? What fool in their right mind would put me in charge of a baby? Two babies?

Miles leaned forward and spoke earnestly into the secure holovid recorder. I just want you to know, Gregor, that if the planet melts down over all this, it wasn't my fault. The trip-wire was laid long before I stumbled across it.

He said that permitting private judgments to turn my duty in the smallest matter would be just like getting a little bit pregnant -- that the consequences would very soon get beyond me.

His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently: when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.

Once you had delegated the best people to do a job for you, you had to trust both them and your judgment. What

Some men just aren't cut for paternity. Better they should realize it before and not after they become responsible for a son.

The gods have no hands in this world but ours.  If we fail Them, where then can They turn?

He'd tried for me twice. Three times, if what you say is true. I decided not to give him a fourth chance." "Oh." Penric sank back, signing himself. "I regret… not doing better with him." "Well, he's his god's problem now. Don't promote your troubles beyond your rank." "That is actually theologically sound advice.