Quotes About Accountability

You couldn't say: It's not my fault. You couldn't say: It's not my responsibility. You could say: I will deal with this. You didn't have to want to. But you had to do it.

Best to get it off his chest. Own up like a man. Take his medicine. Cards on table. Beating about bush, none of. Mercy, throw himself on.

You made a choice, you get what you choose.

Books've got to have a name on 'em so's everyone knows who's guilty.

It's All Officers, sir. They broke into a run. You always did for an All Officers. The people in trouble might well be you.

The office of Master of Traditions had fallen inevitably on Ponder Stibbons, who tended to get all the jobs that required someone who thought that things should happen on time and that numbers should add up.

They couldn't do anything worse to him than he had coming to him already. He felt free at last.

A word writ doon can hang a man

Lots of people in history have only done their jobs and look at the trouble they caused

I would like to hear the words public lands spoken in every election debate, with candidates holding both government and corporations accountable in their oversight and use. The fact of more than three hundred million visits to our national parks last year tells me I am not alone.

I do not believe we can look for leadership beyond ourselves. I do not believe we can wait for someone or something to save us from our global predicaments and obligations. I need to look in the mirror and ask this of myself: If I am committed to seeing the direction of our country change, how must I change myself?

Bella,Jane'in gözlerinin içine bakt?. Adalet herkesin paylaÅŸt??? bir sorumluluktur.

Because we bear responsibility for our own actions alone. Not for anyone else's.

I hate it when a woman lets me down. Gives us all a bad name.

When everything goes wrong in our lives, it's natural to look around for someone -or something- to blame.

Adalet herkesin payla?t??? bir sorumluluktur.

Like a beautifully brightly colored flower without fragrance, is the well-spoken word without action.

Doing your best is the surest way to remind those around you to do their best.

Just as rust produced by iron corrodes iron, so is the violator of moral law destroyed by his own wrong action.

By oneself is evil done, by oneself is one made impure. By oneself is evil undone, by oneself is one made pure. Each one is responsible for purity and impurity. No one can cleanse another.

no problem could be solved if individuals were not willing to address how they themselves were part of the problem.

Most approaches to leadership share two common problems. As we've discussed in this chapter, they fail to account adequately for mindset and therefore put too much faith in our ability to change behavior without addressing mindset. In addition, however, a problem that originated in Western thought some four hundred years ago has led to mindset and leadership approaches that are built on a mistake.

We're so convinced that how we think and feel about other people is caused by them," he says, "by what they have or haven't done, by how inconsiderate they have been to us or how judgmental, and so on. But a seventeen-year-old young woman taught me that this wasn't true. I see people the way I see them because of me.

Think about our workplaces, for example. Think of the privileges we may retain for ourselves while we apply other standards to those who work for us