Quotes About Accountability

That's the problem with folks nowadays. Nobody takes responsibility for their actions. Make a mistake and you pay for it. That's life.

I belong to the public. The public made me. The public can break me. I owe them my life.

I'm not blaming my mom for my life because I am responsible for me and nobody can change me or ruin me easier than I can.

Up to this point your life has pretty much sucked. You're not responsible for that. But you are responsible for what happens from here on.

I mean, if a person acts irresponsibly in his own life, he will pay the consequences. And it's not so much divine retribution as it's built into the law of nature.

Always saying, "I tried" when you didn't really try at all.

Showing your life so public is a mistake sometimes, but I blame myself as much as anyone else.

In life we pay for the evil that in life we do.

You shouldn't reward me for endangering your life, you know. Think of the precedent you're setting.

You are creating your own hell.

Your life will be what you create it as, and no one will stand in judgment of it, now or ever.

How can we resent the life we've created for ourselves? Who's to blame, who's to credit, but us? Who can change it, any time we wish, but us?

Commitment is not letting people down. That's very important in life.

Maturity is when you live your life by your commitments, not by your feelings.

At the end of your life on earth you will be evaluated and rewarded according to how well you handled what God entrusted to you.

I think that if one's role doesn't correspond to what one says, if one's life doesn't correspond to what one preaches, if one is not true to one's people, someone else will come as a substitute.

When you die, God and the Angels will hold you accountable for all the pleasures you were allowed in life that you denied yourself.

Your life at this exact moment is a direct result of choices you made once upon a time. Thirty minutes or 30 year ago.

I've noticed throughout my long life that people with vested interest in things staying the way they are regularly insist that both change and accountability are impossible.

Few things in life are less efficient than a group of people trying to write a sentence. The advantage of this method is that you end up with something for which you will not be personally blamed.

I swear it on Solin's life. (Arik) Uh, excuse me? (Solin) I would, but there's truly no excuse for you. (Arik)

The guiding principle of my life, 'the means are the ends,' has taught me that our participation in a corrupt system facilitates it and corrupts and therefore defeats us.

Even if I screw up in my personal life, as long as I'm not destroying myself, I just think, "Okay, I screwed up." I'm not Mother Theresa.

I think everything I have done in my life, my reasons at the time were right no matter how things worked out.