Quotes About Accountability

Sometimes we have to own our decisions. Good or bad." "Right," Allie said. "I'm getting that. I thought I got that all along, my whole life. But it turns out I just

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. "To

Sorry doesn't mean shit. Not if you don't plan to stop doing the thing you're so sorry about. There has to be more to amends than just a word. Anybody can say a damn word.

Anything that lifts responsibility for our actions is addictive, I've found. So

nobody does anything wrong until the moment they do.

Therefore, in accordance with our laws, I sentence you, Jenna of Saura, to death." Her

Because it's my fault, you see. I did it. And you must always clean up your own messes, even when your messes look just like you and curtsy very viciously when what they mean is, I am going to make trouble forever and ever .

I didn't want to do my mathematics homework back home. Or mend the fence or mind the chickens. But I did it anyway. Just because a person doesn't want to do a thing doesn't mean they ought to shirk.

A body is never so vicious as when it has only itself to blame for its trouble.

You can't fix a bad man like a bad staircase.

Adults make mistakes too. And sometimes it can take a while before they realise it.

Capita a tutti di combinare qualche pasticcio a volte, dopotutto non si può essere sempre nel giusto. ma quando cadi hai due possibilità: restare lì a terra ad autocommiserarti o alzarti e cercare di porre rimedio alle tue azioni. Cadere non è un crimine. Il crimine è restare a terra.

In other words, can I apologize without demanding your forgiveness?

And white tears are why 63 percent of white men and 53 percent of white women elected a malignant man-child as their leader. For to be aware of history, they would be forced to be held accountable, and rather than face that shame, they'd rather, by any means necessary, maintain their innocence.

I'd rather be indebted than be the kind of white man who thinks the world owes him, because to live an ethical life is to be held accountable to history.

To live an ethical life is to be held accountable for history.

For to be aware of history, they would be forced to be held accountable. And rather than face that shame, they'd rather, by any means necessary, maintain their innocence.

If our forefathers make the world awry, must our children be the ones who pay to right it?

But as I have resolved to set down a full account here, so I must begin with an honest accounting of myself. That morning, I was afraid.

When a kingdom rests on it, I always expect difficulty. Then, if there is none, no blame. But if there is, one is prepared.

I need, I suppose, to account for my life, and for my part in Caleb's crossing from his world into mine, and what flowed on from it.

is the only politician whose words are less than his deeds." The

It is no disaster to be unhappy but how discouraging it must be to know that there is nothing to pin the blame on, outside oneself?

Waar gebeurd is geen excuus.