Quotes About Accountability

Fear bespeaks of wisdom. Recognition of responsibility.

He who is not master of his own thoughts is not accountable for his own deeds.

Blame neither man, nor God, nor anyone in the world. When you find yourselves suffering, blame yourselves, and try to do better.

In every country it is the priest who is conservative, for two reasons — because it is his bread and because he can only move with the people. All priests are not strong. If the people say, "Preach two thousand gods," the priests will do it. They are the servants of the congregation who pay them. God does not pay them. So blame yourselves before blaming the priests. You can only get the government and the religion and the priesthood you deserve, and no better.

Where is fate, and who is fate? We reap what we sow. We are the makers of our own fate. None else has the blame, none has the praise. The wind is blowing; those vessels whose sails are unfurled catch it and go forward on their way, but those which have their sails furled do not catch the wind. Is that the fault of the wind.

Even the faults of a Guru must be told.

Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught.

Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.

We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until... we have stopped saying "It got lost," and say "I lost it."

We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice — that is, until we have stopped saying "It got lost," and say, "I lost it.

Every man is the architect of his own life. He builds it just the way he wants it. However, after he has built what he wants, he sometimes decides that he doesn't like what he has built and looks for someone or something to blame instead of changing himself.

Man has responsibility, not power—Tuscarora

We expect you to spill the milk, but it's really how you clean it up that matters.

Nature tries to compensate, but is not always successful and thus our planet is now in dire straits and we humans are directly responsible for it.

He who flees from trial confesses his guilt.

you can't be ruined by things that others do to you but only by what you do to others.

If you stick your head in the sand and ignore things that you have the power to change, you can't blame anyone when they don't turn out right!

What are you going to do with what you have been given?

Who guards the guardians?

Whatever my ancestors did to you, none of them consulted me.

Przyjdzie czas, kiedy ka?dego spytamy: kim jeste? i jakiemu panu s?u?y?e?.

To err is human, to blame it on somebody else shows management potential.

The wages of sin are unreported.

Deal with the consequences of your actions, 'cause life ain't no video game.