Quotes About Accountability

He didn't deserve compassion. Sympathy. Not even understanding. He deserved worse, far worse than he had ever been given.

If you truly love yourself then you will take 100% full responsibility for your thoughts and actions.

Love is more responsible, when it's titled a definite relation...

for what is to be done is not for police or of the customs. It must be done by us alone and in our own way.

break the rules pay the price

Let's worry about fixing the problem instead of the blame.

you sometimes act as if you think growing up means the rules don't apply anymore. On the contrary—a big part of growing up is learning self-control. You work on that, and then we can talk about expanding your privileges.

The bear would have to be stopped," Grandma agreed. "Stan is just making the distinction that you wouldn't blame the bear the same way you would blame a responsible person.

I no longer fear honesty. I have learned that anything important accomplished through dishonest means eventually unravels. Facing unpleasant truths protects us from building on faulty foundations.

Would you forgive a killer for not knowing how a gun functioned? How many would have to die before you stopped pardoning his ignorance?

Don't make excuses for him. We all have choices, even when times are tough. Those are the defining moments of our lives.

once had a mother, too. Just having the title doesn't mean you do the job.

if you wait for everyone else to do the right thing before you do the right thing, then you'll never do what's right. You have to do what's right even if other people aren't. Maybe even especially if other people aren't.

Each white person gets to be considered on their own terms, and every other group must answer as a whole for the crimes of the one or the few."1

do we Christians want to continue to enfranchise scoundrels who hold the right beliefs but perpetuate harm?

Jess had pulled the trigger tonight. No cop did that without going through hell. It didn't matter who was on the other end of the bullet.

We must face our responsibilities regardless of whether we get what we want.

If you are born to power, you must prove you deserve it through good works—or give it up. To do any less is to act without conscience.

It is easy to look backward and cast blame on others, but more difficult to gaze ahead and take responsibility for your own decisions and your own future. —GRIFFIN HARKONNEN, final dispatch from Arrakis It

If you sit safely by and wait for your people to do your work for you, then you do not deserve to rule such a populace.

Beware the seeds you sow and the crops you reap. Do not curse God for the punishment you inflict upon yourself. —Orange Catholic Bible

There are those who see influence and power as a reward rather than a responsibility. Such men do not make good leaders. —DIRECTEUR JOSEF VENPORT, internal Venport Holdings memo

Paulus abhorred inaction, always telling his son that even the wrong decision was better than no decision at all.

With little power comes little responsibility.