Quotes About Accountability

Don't make excuses — make good.

Men are punished by their sins, not for them.

Responsibility is the price of freedom.

Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people?

our children must learn...to face full responsibility for their actions, to make their own choices and cope with the results...the whole democratic system...depends upon it. For our system is founded on self-government, which is untenable if the individuals who make up the system are unable to govern themselves.

It is often the people who refuse to assume any responsibility who are apt to be the sharpest critics of those who do.

We are the sum total of all the choices we have made.

We all create the person we become by our choices as we go through life. In a very real sense, by the time we are adult, we are the sum total of the choices we have made.

You not only have a right to be an individual. You have a responsibility.

Each of us, ultimately, is responsible in large part for the welfare of his community, for the kind of government he has, for the world he lives in.

If someone betrays you once, it's their fault; if they betray you twice, it's your fault.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

La culpa no la tienen quienes se rebelan, la culpa la tienen quienes no saben gobernar.

Il ne m'aurait jamais fait de mal, il n'était capable que de s'en faire à lui-même.

Non ci sono gesti, parole, sospiri che non contengano la somma di tutti i crimini che hanno commesso e commettono gli esseri umani.

We have to work with consistency, with discipline, step by step, no matter how things are going around us, and be careful not to make a mistake, because we pay for our mistakes.

Criticar al César no es criticar a Roma. Criticar a un gobierno no es criticar al país. •Carlos Fuentes, al reportero Guillermo Ochoa, Excélsior, 4 de marzo de 1969