Quotes About Accountability

You can't, friend, have your palm greased and expect To get away clean. Everything comes out.

Chorus: Consider well, my son. All men make mistakes. But mistakes don't have to be forever, They can be admitted and atoned for. It's the overbearing man who is to blame.

I've never made any effort to hide what happened. I served my time, I've tried to learn and move on.

In this country we find it pays to shoot an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.

All I wanted was for the public to be able to have a say in how they are governed. That is a milestone we left a long time ago.

Three things prompt men to a regular discharge of their duty in time of action: natural bravery, hope of reward, and fear of punishment.

Mama and Papa are more to blame (for delinquency) than the kids; parents should stay home and raise their children and spend less time in taverns.

Now was not a good time, but we didn't often get to chose the time to repay our debts.

Perhaps selling your children, your future, just happened one bad decision at a time.

...the devil we blame our atrocities on is really just each one of us. So don't expect the end of the world to come one day out of the blue - it's been happening every day for a long time.

Though we live in the colony of time, we are ultimately responsible to the empire of eternity.

We each have all the time there is; our mental and moral status is determined by what we do with it.

This year has been full of lessons learned and soul searching and realizing I'm an adult. It's time to take responsibility and not take the easy way out.

As African-Americans, we often spend our time and energy blaming other people for the problems we see around us.

My job is to play well offensively and help my team score points. So I feel very responsible every time we lose a game.

When you're in a leadership role, you can never please all of the people all of the time. There's also a lot of responsibility that goes along with it that others may not realize.

I don't believe society understands what happens when everything is available, knowable and recorded by everyone all the time.

There is a tendency by a lot of officials to hide behind the king. And it's about time that officials take their responsibility and are responsible in front of the people.

There is an old and very wise Native American saying: Every time you point a finger in scorn—there are three remaining fingers pointing right back at you.

You elected government officials to make decisions and it's about time they started making good ones

It is ever thus that the things which we do wrong - although they may seem little at the time, and though from the hardness of our hearts we pass them lightly by - come back to us with bitterness.

I really believe that all CEO pay should be voted on by shareholders ahead of time. Mine was.

Nobody stopped believing that other people were more guilty than they were. Why do people have so much trouble seeing their own faults but such an easy time seeing everyone else's?

It is time for the Chinese to make good on their word.