Quotes About Accountability

The ripple of today's lie is tomorrow's wave and next year's flood.

You want to make a difference in your world? Live a holy life: Be faithful to your spouse. Be the one at the office who refuses to cheat. Be the neighbor who acts neighborly. Be the employee who does the work and doesn't complain. Pay your bills. Do your part and enjoy life. Don't speak one message and live another. People are watching the way we act more than they are listening to what we say.

Beneath the epidermis of today's deeds are the unresolved actions of years past.

That's what guilt is: a healthy regret for telling God one thing and doing another.

There are certain things no one can do for you.

There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life."1 Our deeds are ugly. Our actions are harsh. We don't do what we want to do, we don't like what we do, and what's worse—yes, there is something worse—we can't change.

consequence free.

Such a man knows that whatever is wrong in the world is in himself, and if he only learns to deal with his own shadow he has done something real for the world.

In all the institutions I try to be present and accountable for all I do and leave undone. I know that eventually I shall have to be present and accountable n the presence of God. I do not wish to be found wanting.

To grow up is to stop putting blame on parents

Can't Do is like Don't Care. Neither of them have a home.

I have learned to accept my responsibility and to forgive myself first, then to apologise to anyone injured by my misreckoning.

Make sure that everything you say is two-time talk. That means say it in the closet and be prepared to say it on the city hall steps.

Hell, girl, everybody feels sorry for you, but nobody owes you a damn thing.

It was understood that I didn't lie because I was too proud to be caught and forced to admit that I was capable of less than Olympian action.

I'll accept no excuse if you return a book to me that has been badly handled. My imagination boggled at the punishment I would deserve if in fact I did abuse a book of Mrs Flowers'. Death would be too kind and brief.

What did you do?

There's always a choice. It's what you do with that choice that matters.

If you're asking me if I have blood on my hands then yeah, no doubt.

There's no accountability anymore, Pierce, no one holds anyone accountable for what they do. It's always someone else's fault. Usually people just blame the victim.

When something horrible happens, it's human nature to want to blame it on someone. We want someone to be held accountable, even though sometimes things just happen.

I think we make our own luck. Our parents give us life, but what we do with that life is our own responsibility.

I've dug this grave myself. I guess I have no choice but to lie down in it.

When you fuck up, shit gets real.