Quotes About Accountability

To: Nadine Wilcock From: George Sanchez Subject: Where the hell is Fuller? She better not be in the ladies'. I swear to God, I'm beginning to think there's somebody in there serving lattes, you all spend so much time locked in those damned stalls….

If there are three words in the English language worse than Got a minute? they can only be About last night...

Would you rather be the mayor from the movie Jaws who keeps the beaches open when there's a killer shark out there? Or do you want to be the sheriff who turns out to be right about the killer shark, and saves thousands of people's lives?

Get to the point, Dad. I have a country to run.

Of course the servants had chosen not to follow me; I'd failed them already by refusing to be a man they could believe in.

I don't trust an organization that would make policy out of fear.

Never ever, ever make excuses for a scoundrel.

endless meetings. Ever since she'd assumed the title of Regent, Mimi felt as if her life was measured out in marathon conference calls and discussions that went nowhere.

Sometimes it's hard to hear when we've done something wrong. But we can learn from our mistakes.

And while we are living, we receive no punishment but what we put on each other or that we make for ourselves

If we abdicate responsibility for our choices, we may become angry, sometimes full of rage at others for running our lives, for telling us what to do. We need to take responsibility. We need to trust ourselves.

Take responsibility for our anger. We can say: "I feel angry when you do this because …

I couldn't disappoint her because I thought she couldn't handle or be responsible for her feelings. I couldn't tell the truth, because I thought she might be angry with me-more emotional responsibility-as if someone else's anger is my business.

Each person's feelings are his or her own. Nobody makes anyone feel; no one is ultimately responsible for our feelings except us, no matter how much we insist they are. People might help us feel, but they don't make us feel. People also cannot change the way we feel. Only we can do that.

Trust ourselves and the grief process. We won't stay angry forever. But we may need to get mad for a while as we search over what could have been, to finally accept what is. God, help me learn to accept my own and others' anger as a normal part of achieving acceptance and peace. Within that framework, help me strive for personal accountability.

There are no excuses," he said at last. "But there are reasons. Reasons why we are what we are. Reasons why we do not have to stay that way.

but one thing the best leaders usually share in common, they didn't want the damn job in the first place." Then

What if I make a mistake?: she finally said. :Everyone makes mistakes. I make mistakes. If you make a mistake, we'll admit to it, own it, and then fix it.:

Have I mentioned before that being responsible sucks?

Life isn't fair' is nothing but an excuse people make to justify bad things they do. But why shouldn't life be fair? What's keeping it from being fair? Those same cruel, mean, and evil people.

Command is more than issuing orders, it is knowing what those orders might mean to the lives of your men and knowing that you and you alone are the one responsible for the outcome.

If you do not know what you feel, then it is difficult to choose love; it is better to fall. Then you do not have to be responsible for your actions.

Whether or not any of us become racists is a choice we make. And we are called to choose again and again where we stand on the issue of racism at different moments in our life.

To begin by always thinking of love as an action rather than a feeling is one way in which anyone using the word in this manner automatically assumes accountability and responsibility.