Quotes About Accountability

The most effective leaders lead in this single way: by holding themselves more accountable than all.

SÉ™nÉ™t çörÉ™k arxas?nca qaçarsa, alçalar

the greater the number of owners, the less the respect for common property. People are much more careful of their personal possessions than of those owned communally; they exercise care over common property only in so far as they are personally affected.

Actions have consequences. In actions have them. We set things in motion by what we don't do.

Myron, like countless NCO's before him, had discovered the ideal compromise between power and responsibility.

Like every human being, Alvin was in some measure a machine, his actions predetermined by his inheritance. That did not alter his need for understanding and sympathy, nor did it render him immune to loneliness or frustration. To his own people, he was so unaccountable a creature that they sometimes forgot that he still shared their emotions.

Otsusta minu üle mu tegude järgi, ehkki neid on vähe, mitte mu sõnade järgi, kuigi neid on palju.

Judge me by my deeds, though they are few, rather than my words, though they are many.

There is no satisfaction in vengeance unless the offender has time to realize who it is that strikes him, and why retribution has come upon him.

It's every man's business to see justice done.

Punishment has been slow in coming, but it has overtaken you at last.

We all have choices, Nick. Even if it's nothing more than the choice between lesser evils. No one can take away your free will. Not even the gods. It's the one gift that can never be returned, stolen, or revoked. We can blame others for our bad decisions. We can say that we had no choice. But it's always a lie. No one puts your hand on the gun but you. Only you can decide if you pick it up or leave it alone.

Es fácil cometer errores. Lo difícil es vivir con las consecuencias. (Aquerón)

We are all measured, good or evil, by the wrong we do to others; I had made a monster and turned it loose upon the world and--since recognition is, after all, the cruelest pain--had seen it clearly and with understanding.

It is not possible, I frequently think, to walk down the street as fast as you can and kick yourself at the same time.

For one thing, it had suddenly come to Natalie that when people were sober they repudiated everything they had done when they were drunk, and when they were drunk they repudiated everything they had done when they were sober.

It's all my fault, anyway." That was her new way of thinking.

Veniamo tutti misurati, buoni e cattivi, dal male che facciamo agli altri. Io avevo creato un mostro e l'avevo lasciato libero di andare in giro per il mondo, e – poiché l'ammissione è, dopotutto, il dolore più crudele – ammetto che avevo visto tutto con chiarezza e lucidità.

It's useless to hold a person to anything he says wile he's in love, drunk, or running for office.

But it's as my mother, bless her, says: When a madman breaks a window, it's never his own….

But it's as my mother says: "When a girl can't dance, she blames the musicians …

But generals who warm themselves by the fire in a tent should not reproach the soldiers that are taken prisoner

You can keep running and hiding and blaming the world for your problems, or you can stand up for yourself and decide to be somebody important.

Least of all should the artist be held responsible for the fate which befalls his works.