Quotes About Accountability

She knew where he was going, but she wasn't going to give him an inch that he didn't earn.

They were the first ones to die, you know. You can't accuse them of hypocrisy. The Governors Assessed their creators first.

When you realize you've been one of the biggest barriers to your own change and you take full responsibility, you put yourself in a place of power.

Change is a result of what you do now, not what you intend to do tomorrow.

Adults make mistakes too.

Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.

If her own situation was a cup of poison, then she should drink from it herself and not expect Isabel to sip.

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Let your deeds be your bond, not your promises and cajolery.

forgiveness and responsibility are not the same thing. No one can absolve him of his responsibility. He will remain responsible for the rest of his life. And he knows it, or he would not have told you what he has done.

No one can be the judge of another until he recognizes that he himself is as guilty for the crime as the one who committed it—and maybe more so.

People are very inclined to set moral standards for others.

Life may not be fair, but that doesn't give you any excuse not to be.

You can't oversleep if you don't make plans to wake up early.

An act may be wrong, but unless the ruling power recognizes the wrong, it is useless to hope for a correction of it.

Once you've postponed doing what's right, you become a big part of what's wrong.

Something I've learned: once you postpone doing what's right, you become a big part of what's wrong.

I wasn't aware that not disappointing you was an option, so I'm afraid I haven't taken any steps to avoid it.

What about other doctors at the time? Didn't they become suspicious? Even today, we have an unwritten professional code where doctors don't speak out against other physicians.

Darling, the world doesn't owe you anything.

But I thought: So it wasn't me that made him do this, if he did this while married to Joanne and also to Estelle? Then it wasn't because of me?

I said, "But, William, someone had to know this was going to happen! I mean in the government, someone had to know and they looked away.

Nothing is easier than saying words. Nothing is harder than living then, day after day. What you promise today must be renewed and redefined tomorrow and each day that stretches out before you.

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