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Quotes About Accountability

What's left undone today, tomorrow will not do." Faust
~ Goethe
Serei eu totalmente inocente?Não alimentei seus sentimentos?
~ Goethe Johann-Wolfgang
There's no difference between one's killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It's exactly the same thing, or even worse.
~ Golda Meir
A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
~ Golda Meir
I have given instructions that I be informed every time one of our soldiers is killed, even if it is in the middle of the night. When President Nasser leaves instructions that he is to be awakened in the middle of the night if an Egyptian soldier is killed, there will be peace.
~ Golda Meir
If you don't take responsibility, then you'll never grow. You will never learn. And you will only repeat your mistakes.
~ Goldie Hawn
Blaming keeps you in the problem. Taking responsibility for your actions points you in the direction of the solution.
~ Gordana Biernat
You cannot change your reality if you think someone else is responsible for it.
~ Gordana Biernat
You are people with a present and with a future. Don't muff the ball. Be excellent.
~ Gordon B. Hinckley
People who carry in their hearts a strong conviction concerning the living reality of the Almighty and their accountability to Him for what they do with their lives are far less likely to become enmeshed in problems that inevitably weaken society.
~ Gordon B. Hinckley
Wake him or put a bullet through his brain. No one will protest. Or leave him—but I suggest choosing, my dear. I have learned it is best to be haunted by one's actions rather than one's lack of them.
~ Gordon Dahlquist
China will make real progress in the fight against corruption only when prosecution and conviction are separated from politics.
~ Gordon G. Chang
To imagine that we are solely, or even primarily, responsible for the successes and failures of our children is a narcissistic myth.
~ Gordon Livingston
We are responsible for most of what happens to us.
~ Gordon Livingston
every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character, and that therefore what one has done in the secret chamber, one has some day to cry aloud from the house-top. I ceased
~ Gordon MacDonald
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~ Gordon R. Dickson
If there is a just God, how humanity would writhe in its attempt to justify its treatment of animals.
~ Isaac Asimov
CORPORATION, n. An ingenious device for securing individual profit without individual responsibility.
~ Ambrose Bierce
In general, we have as natural a right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk, and hazard. I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
~ Voltaire, 1764
If you don't have this freedom of the press, then all these little fellows are weaseling around and doing their monkey business and they never get caught.
~ Judge Harold R. Medina, c.1978
Wilt thou seal up the avenues of ill? Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't make excuses — make good!
~ Elbert Hubbard, 1909
Don't do what you'll have to find an excuse for.
~ Proverb
Excuses are the tools with which incompetents build to themselves great monuments of Nothing.
~ Author unknown, early 1900s