Quotes About Accountability

It is a painful thing To look at your own trouble and know That you yourself and no one else has made it

I didn't say yes. I can say no to anything I say vile, and I don't have to count the cost. But because you said yes, all that you can do, for all your crown and your trappings, and your guards—all that your can do is to have me killed.

O waste no fears on me; look to thyself.

Creon is not your downfall, no, you are your own.

Evil gains work their punishment.

I tell you neither the waters of the Danube nor the Nile can wash this palace clean.

But the hand that struck my eyes was mine, mine atone—no one else— I did it all myself! What good were eyes to me? Nothing I could see could bring me joy.

you and your loved ones live together in infamy, you cannot see how far you've gone in guilt.

The punishment begins here—where will the end be?

You blame my temper but you do not see your own that lives within you; so you chide me instead." - Oedipus the King

Christian heroism, and indeed one perhaps sees little enough of that, is to risk unreservedly being oneself, an individual human being, this specific individual human being alone before God, alone in this enormous exertion and this enormous accountability

A choice that is not used is worse than nothing; it is a snare in which a person has trapped himself as a slave who did not become free

Take full responsibility for your life, move forward in the direction of your dreams

If you take a life, I will take yours. Put me in charge, I will fix it.

I am one who believes that the people's views and values are represented by those who they elect in the legislative branch and not unelected federal judges appointed for life.

Win without boasting, lose without excuses - internalize your failures and externalize your victories.

In Life We Can Have Results or Reasons.

To provide for the future is a part of one's responsibility in life; and the world has scant consideration for the man who neglects it.

Why are you measuring? This is how you block, delay, hinder, obstruct and deny his place in the life as a father.

If you chose to serve in Congress or on a congressional staff, you should be barred for life from working for any company, organization, or association which lobbies the federal government.

Being the leader means you have to make life or death decisions sometimes.

Life and families and babies are all joyous gifts. But if we do not begin to truly account for our numbers, we will surely create an ecological crisis that will only lead to anguish and despair.

One of my weaknesses happens to be lying, and I could tell you that I'm never going to lie again in my life, but that would be a lie.

I never want to have that on my shoulders - I never want to be number one on the call sheet. That's a life that I don't want. I mean, I'm not ducking the responsibility.