Quotes About Accountability

Credibility through action. First, he bought himself time to do his homework. Then by terminating the two engineers who weren't competent in their positions, he increased his credibility with Fred as a person who could take action.

My advice: write down everything you eat. It's amazing what that self honesty can do for you. (Do you really want to have to confess that doughnut? I thought not.)

The World Bank has not invariably been my favorite organization. The power to do good goes almost always with the possibility to do the opposite, and as a professional economist, I have had occasions in the past to wonder whther the Bank could not have done very much better.

To expect that men who do not honorably and intelligently conduct their private affairs will honorably and intelligently conduct the affairs of the community is to be a fool.

He blamed every fucker available excepting, of course, the one who was actually to blame, the one sitting in his saddle and getting colder, hungrier, and more lost with every unpleasant moment. 'Shit!' he roared at nothing.

made myself guilty of mass murder so I could be proclaimed innocent of incompetence.

You'll never hold up someone who can't swim for themselves. In the end, they'll drag you down with them.

La belleza de hacerte promesas a ti misma es que nadie más se queja si no las cumples.

If you build your boat from cheese, d'you see, you can't wail at the heavens when it sinks, for cheese is known to be a poor material for boat-building.

We are leaders. War is what happens when we fail.

He blinked at her. "How do I tell who the ringleaders are?" "They'll be the ones you're pointing at.

If you hear a reproach it is your own guilt that goads you, not my accusation.

Your Majesty, we are not here to set right all the world's wrongs.' Orso stared back at him. 'What are we here for, then?' Bayaz neither smiled nor frowned. 'To ensure that we benefit from them.

But we are not prone to nervousness. Perhaps we are the unpleasant things. Perhaps the acts are ours.

My father always used to say, you want things right, you have to put 'em right yourself.

Primero nos lo hacen a nosotros, luego nosotros se lo hacemos a los demás y finalmente ordenamos a otros que lo hagan

Ninefingers was talking of himself, of course, as everyone always does, given the chance. It was guilt in his eyes, not accusation. Each man has his own mistakes to follow him.

Szörnyen vékony a határvonal aközött, ha valakit vezérként emelnek a magasba, meg aközött, ha akasztott emberként kerül a többiek fölé.

Once the killing starts, it rarely sticks to those who deserve it

A king was just a kind of bin for all the blame to go in.

But being an arsehole is crime and punishment both.

A good leader can't dwell on the choices he's made, Threetrees used to tell him, and a good leader can't help dwelling on 'em.

What happens now?' 'The people will decide,' said Pike. Orso glanced about him. At the people. 'Really?' He gave a puzzled smile. 'Are they equipped for that?

I did a good thing, and so, of course, there is a price to be paid.