Quotes About Accountability

I've learned that each mistake was probably a reflection of something that I was (or others were) doing wrong, so if I could figure out what that was, I could learn how to be more effective.

What is inherently wrong with the word 'politician' if the fellow has devoted his life to holding public office and trying to do something for his people?

I've met many irresponsible people in my life but never an irresponsible cat.

My God, what have we done?

If you are going to live life on your own terms, there need to be terms, and somehow you need to live up to them.

Our life must answer for our faith.

Govern thy Life and Thoughts, as if the whole World were to see the one, and read the other.

...to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life-daily and hourly. Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct.

Live today. Let go of your attachment to your past as an excuse for your life conditions today. You are the product of the choices you are making right now.

Almost all unhappiness in life comes from the tendency to blame someone else.

And the sooner you do the right thing, the better. You get it over with, and you don't have to worry about it anymore. But who does that in real life?

The whole point of life is learning to live with the consequences of the bad decision we've made.

The one thing you can do for others is the manage your own life. And do it with conviction.

To achieve major success in life - to achieve those things that are most important to you - you must assume 100% responsibility for your life. Nothing less will do.

The hand that signed the paper felled a city;Five sovereign fingers taxed the breath,Doubled the globe of dead and halved a country;These five kings did a king to death.

Some reviews give pain. This is regrettable, but no author has the right to whine. He was not obliged to be an author. He invited publicity, and he must take the publicity that comes along.

If you don't want to be in an argument with someone, it is probably best to try to solve the problem, rather than lying around hoping the other person will do it for you.

Other people apologize and don't mean t "Sorry, but you shouldn't have..." or "Sorry, but I just didn't..." They apologize while telling you that they were right all along, which is the opposite of an actual apology.

He would take up the shit lovingly, literally pick it up in his arms, and he'd say, Oh, I see it all now. I am the one who caused this shit to be so very shitty. This shit is all my fault,

He's the guy who says he'll do a project and doesn't do it," said Stacey S. "And he's the guy who says he'll be somewhere when he can't actually be there, because he doesn't want to disappoint someone. He always says yes, but he doesn't mean it, and people get jerked around.

You mustn't put off what you think right," said Hamidullah. "That is why India is in such a plight, because we put off things.

We are all self-made, but only the successful will admit it.

A good deal of frustration and unhappiness could be avoided if people would just do what they know they should do.

What you keep by you, you may change and mend but words, once spoken, can never be recalled.