Quotes About Accountability

To grow up is to stop putting blame on parents.

I know I have only myself to blame for all the problems I've had in my life.

One of the principle things life has taught me is that we always have a choice. When we say we "can't," we usually mean we're just not willing to pay the price.

A Warrior knows that everything a person does has enduring consequences.

Blaming the government for all the bad things that happen.

Leadership, pure and simple, is the assumption of responsibility for the pursuit of excellence in group life.

A person's life is of their own making, and I take full responsibility for mine.

My life is immeasurably enriched by taking personal responsibility to do what I can, with what I have, where I am.

It's like that, I guess, when the past come to collect what you owe.

When you make that crossover from life to real life, when you're not treated as a child anymore but as a man, and you are no longer given the benefit of the doubt, it takes some courage to face that.

You come to realize that life is short, and you have to step up. Don't feel sorry for me. Much is expected of those who are strong.

I don't want to appear to be placing blame, but as far my life is concerned, everything is pretty much my dad's ball's fault.

Living a good life may keep you out of jail, but it cannot keep you out of hell.

There's only one boss in your life . . . and that's you! The person looking back in the mirror at you is the one you have to answer to every day.

You must send blame out of your life for any conditions of your life.

Young girls are the chatelaines of truth; they must see that it is protected, that the guilty lead the life of the guilty, even if the world rocks on its foundations.

Indeed, a Christian ought to be disposed and prepared to keep in mind that he has to reckon with God every moment of his life.

The voice says, maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don't do. The things you don't finish.

For discipline is imposed not just on oneself but on those in one's orbit.

It takes courage to sit on a jury. How many of us want to decide the fate of another person's life or freedom? How many of us want to hold that kind of power in our hands?

But the only way never to do the wrong thing is never to do anything.

There are things you can't walk away from. Not if you want to live with yourself afterward.

There's always something when you're at fault, too, and that fault you must discover and learn to recognize and take the consequences of it.

The darkest day in life is the one in which we expect something for nothing.