Quotes About Accountability

You got a choice, dude. We've all got choices. Lots of them. Every single second of the day we're making choices. You've just been making bad ones, is all.

that you don't suffer because of someone else. There's never anyone but

I hate people who break down crying when you're trying to talk about something important. Men and women both. You can't trust weepy people. They think they're the center of the world, and that their tears can absolve them of anything.

Realization comes when we honestly accept the mistakes of the past and that automatically builds the responsibility that will prevent us from repeating those same mistakes.

We are not responsible for the mistakes committed by our previous generations. However, if we equate ourselves with them and regard ourselves as their heirs, we must then be ready to also share the responsibility for their mistakes.

An author doesn't have the moral right to violate truth and take refuge in the claim that he/she is only a creative artist.

Leading means running fast enough to keep ahead of your people

It was good to have subordinates who didn't need their t's crossed and the i's dotted . p.173

I need to tease out how far I was to blame. You'll understand that, Dr Freud. Guilt. Does anyone escape it? Is guilt the reason we make up stories?

Our approach to QA is based on the belief that the balance between control and accountability on the one hand and quality enhancement on the other must be weighted towards the latter. Only if the QA process is perceived as bringing advantages to those who interact with it, will they contribute to it co-operatively and positively, and only in such circumstances will quality be enhanced.

That's the least of it. The most of it is, he was always careless with people's hearts. He never took any responsibility for what he broke.

Free will is actually more than an illusion (or less), in that it cannot be made conceptually coherent. Either our wills are determined by prior causes and we are not responsible for them, or they are the product of chance and we are not responsible for them.

To say that someone freely chose to squander his life's savings at the poker table is to say that he had every opportunity to do otherwise and that nothing about what he did was inadvertent.

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How can we make sense of our lives, and hold people accountable for their choices, given the unconscious origins of our conscious minds?

Placing blame on others is easy. Taking responsibility for yourself is empowering.

If there is something a coach might wish to see changed in a player or team, the first place to check and see if it could not be done better is in yourself.

Most of the pressure comes from myself, not from others. I don't need a manager or a pundit to put pressure on me. I do all that myself before others do it.

Success has many fathers; failures have none.

What we say and what we do ultimately comes back to us so let us own our responsibility, place it in our hands, and carry it with dignity and strength.

Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creator of your own destiny.

I encourage you to be a person who is not afraid of responsibility. In meeting resistance you will build your strength. If you only do what is easy, you will always remain weak.

None of us can hope to get anywhere without character, moral courage and the spiritual strength to accept responsibility.

We all have to recognise - no matter how great our strength - that we must deny ourselves the licence to do always as we please.