Quotes About Accountability

A man who lacks reliability is utterly useless.

God knows I gave my best in baseball at all times and no man on earth can truthfully judge me otherwise.

A man deserves a second chance, but keep an eye on him.

Any idiot can get an airplane off the ground, but an aviator earns his keep by bringing it back anytime, anywhere, under any circumstances that man and God can dream up.

The weakest man is the one who is able to correct his moral defects, but doesn't take action.

He was a man, that he always performed his promises, that he had never said he would return.

Men expect too much, do too little.

The essence of drama is that man cannot walk away from the consequences of his own deeds.

No man who is corrupt, no man who condones corruption in others, can possibly do his duty by the community.

A real man has no tougher judge than himself.

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

A man can only be judged by his actions, and not by his good intentions or his beliefs.

When the men in Russia foul up, they are dismisses, sometimes losing their necks. But we protect those who fail and press them to the government bosom.

The common sense of mankind demands that law shall not stop with the punishment of petty crimes by little people. It must also reach men who possess themselves of great power.

Let no guilty man escape, if it can he avoided. . . . No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty.

There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.

To the self-righteous, being judged according to deeds does not seem too alarming but to the man who knows himself the thought is terrifying.

When a man takes an oath... he's holding his own self in his own hands. Like water.

The wisest man is he who can account for his actions.

A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.

Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted.

A wrongdoer is often a man who has left something undone, not always one who has done something.

Men fall in private long before they fall in public.