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Quotes About Accountability

We cut and sell the apple tree's branches and then are shocked there's no fruit.
~ Luc Besson
Responsibility is the ability to respond.
~ Lucille Ball
But when I have such good friends as you and Matthew and Mrs. Allan and Miss Stacy I ought to grow up successfully, and I'm sure it will be my own fault if I don't.
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
Per chi cade nella colpa, signore, il responsabile di tutte le colpe che seguono, non è sempre chi, primo, determinò la caduta?
~ Luigi Pirandello
something you all got to start thinking about, I will check up on everything I ask you to do and I'll keep on checking until I'm satisfied.
~ Lynda La Plante
To her mind, a good cop was worth their weight in gold, but every profession had their bad apples, and bad cops could do more damage than your average dirtbag criminal. She felt no regret or guilt over what she did.
~ Lynsay Sands
It was her experience that there were different kinds of people in the world; those who got kicked by life and kicked back, those who were kicked and turned to kick someone else, and those who were kicked and kicked themselves for it. She admired those who kicked back, and could live with those who kicked themselves, but Eshe had no time for those who were kicked and turned around and kicked someone else.
~ Lynsay Sands
punctual discharge of his irksome duties.
~ Lytton Strachey
The neurotic assumes too much responsibility; the person with a character disorder not enough.
~ M. Scott Peck
no problem can be solved until an individual assumes the responsibility for solving it.
~ M. Scott Peck
The group made the salesman aware in no uncertain terms that his tendency to avoid problem-solving by ignoring a problem in the hope that it would go away was in itself his major problem.
~ M. Scott Peck
The reason for this is that the problem of distinguishing what we are and what we are not responsible for in this life is one of the greatest problems of human existence.
~ M. Scott Peck
Nothing has been accomplished. By casting away their responsibility they may feel comfortable with themselves, but they have ceased to solve the problems of living, have ceased to grow spiritually, and have become dead weight for society. M. Scott Peck. The Road Less Traveled (Kindle Locations 499-501).
~ M. Scott Peck
discipline? There are four: delaying of gratification, acceptance of responsibility, dedication to truth, and balancing.
~ M. Scott Peck
One type of slave-owner does not discipline his slaves, gives them no structure, sets them no limits, provides them with no direction and does not make it clear who is the boss. What happens, of course, is that in due time his slaves stop working and begin moving into the mansion, raiding the liquor cabinet and breaking the furniture, and soon the slave-owner finds that he is the slave of his slaves, living
~ M. Scott Peck
But is all this what God has done to humans or what humans have done to God?
~ M. Scott Peck
Third, the decision to withhold the truth should never be based on personal needs, such as a need for power, a need to be liked or a need to protect one's map from challenge.
~ M. Scott Peck
This transformation occurred by virtue of the fact that Orestes was willing to accept responsibility for his mental illness.
~ M. Scott Peck
There are four: delaying of gratification, acceptance of responsibility, dedication to truth, and balancing.
~ M. Scott Peck
The real question is: who has the responsibility to uphold human rights? The answer to that is: everyone.
~ Madeleine K. Albright
The road to hell is paved with good intentions
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Again Mrs Which's voice reverberated through the cave. "Therre willl nno llonggerr bee sso manyy pplleasanntt thinggss too llookk att iff rressponssible ppeoplle ddo nnott ddoo ssomethingg abboutt thee unnppleassanntt oness.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
your behaviour must be such that when you go to bed at night you will be happy with what you have done during the day
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Therre willl nno llonggerr bee sso manyy pplleasanntt thinggss too llookk att iff rressponssible ppeoplle ddo nnott ddoo ssomethingg abboutt thee unnppleassanntt oness.
~ Madeleine L'Engle