Quotes About Accountability

What fate can be worse than to know we have no one but ourselves to blame for our misfortunes!

Fair play with others is primarily not blaming them for anything that is wrong with us.

How we love to blame others for our misfortunes! Almost every individual who has lost money in stock speculation has on the tip of his tongue an explanation which he trots out to show that it wasn't his own fault at all.... Hardly one loser has the manliness to say frankly, "I was wrong."

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment and learn again to exercise ... his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.

A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He does not say, "My men were beaten," he says, "I was beaten."

The sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one.

It is not alone what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable.

I want to see you shoot the way you shout.

If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.

Man is still responsible. ... His success lies not with the stars, but with himself. He must carry on the fight of self-correction and discipline.

Since when do grown men and women, who presume to hold high government office and exercise what they think of as "moral leadership," require ethics officers to tell them whether it is or isn't permissible to grab the secretary's behind or redirect public funds to their own personal advantage?

The Department of Justice is committed to asking one central question of everything we do: What is the right thing to do? Now that can produce debate, and I want it to be spirited debate. I want the lawyers of America to be able to call me and tell me: Janet, have you lost your mind?

I have made mistakes, but I have never made the mistake of claiming that I never made one.

English proverb

The promises of yesterday are the taxes of today.

When the president does it, that means it is not illegal.

The buck stops here.

What maintains one vice would bring up two children.

Many without punishment, none without sin.

Weak men are apt to be cruel because they stick at nothing that may repair the ill effect of their mistakes.

Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.

If one defines the term 'dropout' to mean a person who has given up serious effort to meet his responsibilities, then every business office, government agency, golf club and university faculty would yield its quota.

I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.