Quotes About Accountability

It's not a persons mistakes which define them - it's the way they make amends.

One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises that one makes.

Freedom is the will to be responsible to ourselves.

all members of Congress should be required wear NASCAR uniforms. You know, the kind with the patches? That way we'd know who is sponsoring each of them. I think he was kidding; they'd never be able to do it but it's a great idea and would wake people up in this country.

As the old saying goes, you can't spell unprofessional, unethical, or unaccountable without the UN.

Deferring to authority is nothing more than a cowardly shirking of personal responsibility. The more power you grant an authority figure the worse you can behave in his name. That's why people who take God as their ultimate authority are always capable of the worst humanity has to offer.

To really know for absolute certain that you could never blame anyone else for anything is difficult.

We're very bold in our proclamations of our own moral rectitude, but then we neglect to even keep our own toilets clean.

I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places - uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me - I find fault.

I have an open-door policy when it comes to blame.

You can't get mad when it rains, whereas you created the storm.

Will you ever own up to

I will take responsibility for what I have done," Dalinar whispered. "If I must fall, I will rise each time a better man.

I'm convinced that responsibility is some kind of psychological disease.

An excuse is what you make after the deed is done, while a justification is what you offer before.

Does one deserve to have evil done to her by consequence of putting herself where evil can reach her?

What responsibility are you avoiding... He wasn't avoiding responsibility... Though there was one thing he clung to. An excuse, perhaps, like the dead emperor. It was the soul of the wretch. Apathy. The belief that nothing was his fault, the belief that he couldn't change anything. If a man was cursed, or if he believed he didn't have to care, then he didn't need to hurt when he failed. Those failures couldn't have been prevented. Someone or something else had ordained them.

He found insanity no excuse, however, for irrational behavior.

Even small actions have consequences. And while we can often choose our actions, we rarely get to choose our consequences.

Never let your life depend on the competence of someone whose life isn't also on the line.

The most important words a man can say are, "I will do better.

Some mistakes, though, you can't fix by being sorry. Can't fix them, no matter what you do.

There was honor in facing the consequences of one's actions. Wasn't there?

A man found himself when he was alone. You only had one person to chat with, one person to blame.