Quotes About Accountability

Well let me tell you, something Caveman. You are here on the account of one person. If it wasn't for that person, you wouldn't be here digging holes in the hot sun. You know who that person is? said Mr. Pendanski. My no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather.

Well, let me tell you something, Caveman. You are here on account of one person. If it wasn't for that person, you wouldn't be here digging holes in the hot sun. You know who that person is?" "My no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather.

If I were accountable for every passing thought I had, I'd be in deep trouble.

Our actions are in our own hands, but the consequences of them are not. Remember that, my dear, and think twice before you do anything.

When people do one mean thing they are very likely to do another

I am satisfied. I've done what I undertook, and it's not my fault that it failed. I comfort myself with that, said Amy with a little quiver in her voice. I thank you all

It won't do a bit of good, Jo. My eye is on you, so mind what you do, or I'll come and bring you home.

Really, girls, you are both to be blamed," said Meg, beginning to lecture in her elder-sisterly fashion. "You are old enough to leave off boyish tricks, and to behave better, Josephine. It didn't matter so much when you were a little girl, but now you are so tall, and turn up your hair, you should remember that you are a young lady.

Many people in the mid–nineteenth century kept such journals to enforce thrift and also objectify their moral performance.

He didn't enjoy responsibility and never learned to cope with it.

With such men at the helm, the GEB, for all its good works, would fall considerably short of heaven.

Rockefeller was still held responsible for the sins of Standard Oil

Great wealth is a great burden, a great responsibility.

with the large interests of others on my shoulders, it cannot be done

As the Lord's fiduciary, he was responsible for seeing the money well invested.

Tell the truth, because sooner or later the public will find out anyway. And if the public doesn't like what you are doing, change your policies and bring them into line with what people want.

I believe it my duty to a good many people who have been blackmailed by doctors to stand a trial.

Mr. Rockefeller, you are no different from any other citizen before the law, and if I were you, I would appear.

This legal legerdemain again frustrated lawmakers who felt that the combine was so vast, slippery, and elusive that it could never be tamed or held accountable.

Never under any circumstances do an action which could be called in question if known to the world.

Junior's presence at 26 Broadway further ensured that father would behave more ethically than in the past.

Rockefeller never offered blame or praise and revealed his opinion of employees only by adding or subtracting to their duties.

If it is a failure, I will take the loss.

To watch the progress of such endeavours is the office of a free press. To give us early alarm and put us on our guard against the encroachments of power. This then is a right of the utmost importance, one for which, instead of yielding it up, we ought rather to spill our blood.