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Quotes About Accountability

Eragon! I never want to hear you use that excuse again, that because someone else has done--or would do--something means that you should too. It's lazy, repugnant, and indicative of an inferior mind. Am I clear?
~ Christopher Paolini
There will be cases where someone's future will rest in your hands 
~ Christopher Paolini
a better world. A place where we are responsible for our own actions, where we can be kind to one another because we want to and because it is the right thing to do instead of being frightened in to behaving by the threat of divine punishment.
~ Christopher Paolini
Hay que ser valiente para admitir que te equivocabas.
~ Christopher Paolini
I never want to hear you use that excuse again, that because someone else has done—or would do—something means that you should too. It's lazy, repugnant, and indicative of an inferior mind. Am I clear?
~ Christopher Paolini
La falsa modestia no es una virtud, en ningún caso, y mucho menos en los que tienen a otros a su cargo. Nasuada
~ Christopher Paolini
Blaming the dead for our mistakes never accomplishes much.
~ Christopher Paolini
MAKING AMENDS "You are late," said Nasuada as Eragon and Angela found
~ Christopher Paolini
Then you ought to know you can't offload responsibility on someone else. You have to be able to take care of yourself when shit goes down.
~ Christopher Paolini
place where we are responsible for our own actions, where we can be kind to one another because we want to and because it is the right thing to do instead of being frightened into behaving by the threat of divine punishment
~ Christopher Paolini
She didn't have much faith in the accountability of governments.
~ Christopher Paolini
Procrastination is like a credit card: it's a lot of fun until you get the bill.
~ Christopher Parker
People are responsible for their actions, but not the fruits of their actions. Always do what you think is right, but don't worry if good does not always come from what you do.
~ Christopher Pike
This story of ordinary men is not the story of all men. The reserve policemen faced choices, and most of them committed terrible deeds. But those who killed cannot be absolved by the notion that anyone in the same situation would have done as they did. For even among them, some refused to kill and others stopped killing. Human responsibility is ultimately an individual matter.
~ Christopher R. Browning
Finally, I said, "No!" rather sharply. His mum looked at me in horror. "We don't say no to George, Tracy." "Well, ducky," I said, "maybe it's time you started. I can't very well let him come round here to destroy things my girls know enough not to touch. Besides, this isn't George's fault—it's yours, because you haven't taught him what's his and what's yours.
~ Tracy Hogg
By signing up for the project you agreed to do whatever was necessary for success.
~ Tracy Kidder
That's a tough pill to swallow because we're not children or dependents; we're adults. To support an idea, we need to understand why the decision was made.
~ Travis Bradberry
Tough conversations are inevitable; forget running from them because they're sure to catch up to you.
~ Travis Bradberry
Much of self-management comes down to motivation, and you can use the expectations that other people have of you as a powerful force to get you up off the proverbial couch.
~ Travis Bradberry
The tablets mean nothing," Ao said, addressing all of his gods, no matter where they were. "I kept them to remind you that I created gods to serve the Balance, not to twist it to your own ends. But this point was lost on you. You saw the tablets as a set of rules by which to play juvenile games of prestige and pomp! Then, when the rules became inconvenient, you stole them Ã¢â'¬Â¦
~ Troy Denning
It always seems easier to do nothing, when the harm is don elsewhere," Dakon said. "They know their young ones will either learn a lesson and limp home – or die and stop being a problem – or prove successful. The worst that could happen is a bit of a diplomatic hiccup in history.
~ Trudi Canavan
Teadmatus ei ole vabandus.
~ Trudi Canavan
apa pun yang kau lakukan...jangan mengeluh, tapi ambil konsekuensinya
~ TS Elliot
If a shepherd errs, he must be isolated from other shepherds, but woe unto us if the sheep begin to distrust shepherds.
~ Umberto Eco