Quotes About Accountability

But it's a lot easier to blame someone else than accept blame for your own failings.

Not even the King is above the rule of law.

we can but try to do good. And you did. What he's done with it is up to him.

The story takes up space as a knot in a piece of wood. If the knot is removed, a hole remains. We must ask ourselves, how will this hole that we have opened be filled? The hole, Maisie, is our responsibility.

Number Ten Downing Street." "Oh, good lord!" "No, I would say the Right Honourable Gentleman has never been that good, not with the mess this country's in

The Ethical can therefore end up making us irresponsible.

Infinite responsibility, therefore, no rest allowed for any form of good conscience.

STEED: But in a presidential crisis I expect him to be presidential.

Un om trebuie judecat atunci când a dat din el tot ceea ce era de dat, când nu mai poate s?-È™i pun? eÈ™ecurile pe seama defectelor È™i când se bazeaz? pe propria putere pentru a izbândi.

No man is hindered by another; he is only hindered by himself. No man suffers because of another; he suffers only because of himself.

In a justly ordered universe, where loss of equipoise would mean total destruction, individual responsibility must be absolute.

Into your hands will be placed the exact results of your own thoughts; you will receive that which you earn; no more, no less.

A man's weakness and strength, purity and impurity, are his own, and not another man's; they are brought about by himself, and not by another; and they can only be altered by himself, never by another. His condition is also his own, and not another man's. His suffering and his happiness are evolved from within. As he thinks, so he is; as he continues to think, so he remains.

A man does not come to the almshouse or the jail by the tyranny of fate or circumstance, but by the pathway of grovelling thoughts and base desires.

When a man burns himself, does he accuse the fire? Therefore, when a man suffers, let him look for some ignorance or disobedience within himself.

A man's weakness and strength, purity and impurity, are his own, and not another man's; they are brought about by himself, and not by another; and they can only be altered by himself, never by another. His condition is also his own, and not another man's. His suffering and his happiness are evolved from within. As he thinks, so he is; as he continues to think, so he remains. A

Excuses are easy lies we tell ourselves to cover up our failures.

We can no longer afford to rely on others and repeat the same mistakes from our pasts.

If you don't live in the world of choosing, you live in the world of excusing. 

When you don't choose, you excuse.

It's not our parents' fault. Or our schools'. Or the government's. Or our friends'. They all have their own issues—no need to blame them. But there's no need to say yes to their stories either. Now is the time for us to build our own stories.

I'm not interested in anybody's guilt. Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford. I know you didn't do it, and I didn't do it either, but I am responsible for it because I am a man and a citizen of this country and you are responsible for it, too, for the very same reason... Anyone who is trying to be conscious must begin to dismiss the vocabulary which we've used so long to cover it up, to lie about the way things are.

People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster.

It is not a racial problem. It is a problem of whether or not you're willing to look at your life and be responsible for it, and then begin to change it.