Quotes About Accountability

Yes, it's comforting to know, when you think about it, that only man can be a bastard.

Am I responsible for my unconscious? No one else is, if not myself.

Je?eli mog? by? bezwzgl?dny dla innych musz? by? bezwzgl?dny dla siebie.

It is believed that Revson is the author of the oft-quoted statement, uttered during one long working weekend to his subordinates, "If you don't come in on Saturday, don't bother to come in on Sunday.

Despite humane intentions, an overemphasis on personal responsibility for strengthening family values encourages a way of thinking that leads to moralizing rather than mobilizing for concrete reforms.

Give me the strength to lead, for I fear otherwise we may hang ourselves.

Time to man up.

Honesty doesn't excuse ignorance. But it helps.

And we could all sit around and wonder and feel bad about each other and blame a lot of people for what they did or didn't do or what they didn't know. I don't know. I guess there would always be someone to blame.

If you fail at your job, you do not blame some outside force. You look right in the mirror and take responsibility. That was the problem with the world. No one took responsibility.

My sister was counting on me, and this was the first time anyone ever counted on me for anything.

No el mundo arrastra una tragedia, Charlie, y aunque así fuera no los excusaría

Religion forces every individual to take responsibility. Specifically, take it away from yourself and give it to God. If we had to be accountable for every one of our actions, we'd be crippled with indecision. But with religion pointing the way, we can feel confident in our choice to picket our children's elementary school when we find out the art teacher is gay.

Words are like eggs dropped from great heights. You could no more call them back then ignore the mess they left when they fell.

As long as you think the problem is out there, that very thought is the problem

A moment of choice is a moment of truth. It's the testing point of our character and competence.

Accountability breeds response-ability.

Then Marshall leaned forward—Eisenhower recalled years later that he had "an eye that seemed to me awfully cold"—and declared, "Eisenhower, the Department is filled with able men who analyze their problems well but feel compelled always to bring them to me for final solution. I must have assistants who will solve their own problems and tell me later what they have done.

I shall sustain a massive erection, that's what, and I shan't be answerable for the consequences. Some kind of ejaculation is almost bound to ensue and if either of you were to become pregnant I should never forgive myself.

We keep our insignificant blemishes so that we can blame them for our larger defects.

It is a little theory of mine that has much exercised my mind lately, that most of the problems of this silly and delightful world derive from our apologising for those things which we ought not to apologise for, and failing to apologise for those things for which apology is necessary.

Blame, certainly, is a dish only edible when served fresh and warm. Old blames, grudges and scores congeal and curdle and cause the most terrible indigestion.

Government works best under the glare of public scrutiny. Absent such scrutiny, abuses occur.

The human capacity for guilt is such that people can always find ways to blame themselves.