Quotes About Accountability

It's true on a technicality. I'm being held unlawfully. I didn't commit the crime for which I've been convicted. But if you look at it another way, I deserve to be here. I did a lot of other shitty things, for which I wasn't punished.

What happened to you?" Jace looked affronted. "What happened to me?" Alec shook him, not lightly. "You said you were going for a walk! What kind of walk takes six hours?" "A long one?" Jace suggested.

I don't think Will Herondale and a sense of responsibility are even on speaking terms

If you steal any of the books from the library, I will know, and you'll be sorry. Jessamine Lovelace.

We are all guilty. And therefore we will all vote, as a reminder that every voice counts, and when you choose not to use your voice, you are letting yourself be silenced.

YOU ARE THE CHIEF.

For some reason, we as a culture have adopted blame as a method we use to feel better about the choices we make, rather than taking responsibility for them.

Hell is paved with good intentions. Heaven is paved with Oreos.

Fix the problem,not the blame.

Things are so easy to do, so hard to undo.

But when nobody punishes you, you have to do it yourself, and there's no release date on that. We're always harder on ourselves than any governing body could ever get away with being.

life is just a series of our own choices catching up with us.

I guess life is just a series of our own choices catching up with us.

But you can't change the world on the honor system. Shoot, anybody knows that. Leave people on the honor system, they don't do it. As soon as you look away, they just don't. I mean, look what happened.

We take all these little calculated risks. All the time. Nine hundred and ninety-nine times out of a thousand nothing goes wrong. And the one time it does, we blame the person who took the risk, tell them they should have known better than to ever do such a thing.

It's always easier to take a risk when it's your own stuff you're risking. Nothing is harder than risking something that belongs to somebody else.

Most people prefer to think that their resentment is entirely the fault of the person they resent, and that twisted logic seems to make sense in their minds. But it makes no sense to me at all. It's like saying it's your fault if I shoot you, because the gun is aiming at you. It completely disregards who's doing the aiming. But it's a popular point of view. Probably because it's so much easier. It relieves you of the burden of any and all self-examination.

I have no idea what to do." Which was my mom's way of saying, "Now you do something." When my mom said she was out of ideas, it meant I had to step up.

You can do anything you want, so long as you're willing to pay the bill when it comes in.

these little calculated risks. All the time. Nine hundred and ninety-nine times out of a thousand nothing goes wrong. And the one time it does, we blame the person who took the risk, tell them they should have known better than to ever do such a thing. Which

Anything that lifts responsibility for our actions is addictive, I've found. So really, looking back, I'd have to say that was not the hard moment. The tough bit is always later, when you're held responsible for yourself again, and your life is expected to go on.

ever do such a thing. Which I'm not saying is wrong, but we know we take risks, too. Maybe we even blame them more because we want to pretend it never could have happened to us. But of course it could have. We make life-and-death decisions every day. The odds are just really good on most of them. But if something goes wrong, we're still responsible. And we don't get to do it over, either.

We take all these little calculated risks. All the time. Nine hundred and ninety-nine times out of a thousand nothing goes wrong. And the one time it does, we blame the person who took the risk, tell them they should have known better than to ever do such a thing. Which

Because you can't control other people. You can't be responsible for somebody else.