Quotes About Accountability

Blame me not for my mistakes, for that's common, but surely do for my achievements which I'm equally unaware of. - Ramana Pemmaraju

Hard work guarantees you nothing. But laziness assures failure. Work hard, or you have only yourself to blame.

We must all act within the choices we are given.

You can't have it both ways. You can't tell me that you're taxed enough already, and that you want constitutional government and then in the next breath say, 'Bring me home some bacon.' The pig has been picked clean.

Until America's white ruling class accepts the fact that the book never closes on massive unredressed social wrongs, America can have no future as one people.

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.

We need someone with proven conservative leadership experience, not entitlement, to be able to represent us and lead us.

I'm sorry. It's my fault. How do I make it right?

Proper apologies have three parts: 1) What I did was wrong. 2) I feel badly that I hurt you. 3) How do I make this better?

Coach Graham rode you pretty hard, didn't he?" he said. I could barely muster a "yeah." That's a good thing," the assistant told me. When you're screwing up and nobody says anything to you anymore, it means they've given up on you.

Apologies are not pass/fail.

A coach yells at the kid he thinks can improve but the coach will not yell at the kid who he/she knows won't.

Anybody can get chewed out. It's the rare person who says, oh my god, you were right. As opposed to, no wait, the reason is... We've all heard that

it make no sense to talk about rights without also talking about responsibilities

bila kau melakukan sesuatu yang buruk, tetapi sudah tidak ada lagi yang mau memberitahukannya kepadamu, berarti kamu sudah diabaikan dan tidak berarti

When you're screwing up and nobody says anything to you anymore, that means they've given up on you.

you're only as good as your word," and there's no better way to say it.

When giving an apology, any performance lower than an A really doesn't cut it.

but it makes no sense to talk about rights without also talking about responsibilities

you're only as good as your word,

I apologize for what I did, but you also need to apologize to me for what you've done." (That's not giving an apology. That's asking for one.)

The feeling of 'having done one's duty' makes everyone into their own honourable executioner.

A stable democracy needs a strong government but no less importantly also a strong opposition. Without the latter, the road to corruption is wide open.

We need to balance between two important values, freedom of expression, and social responsibility.