Quotes About Accountability

TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR PROBLEMS THAT ARE THE RESULT OF YOUR OWN BAD DECISIONS. DON'T DISPLACE THE BLAME.

I'm afraid that we all make mistakes. One of the things that defines our character is how we handle mistakes. If we lie about having made a mistake, then it can't be corrected and it festers. On the other hand, if we give up just because we made a mistake, even a big mistake, none of us would get far in life.

I'm afraid that we all make mistakes. One of the things that defines our character is how we handle mistakes. If we lie about having made a mistake, then it can't be corrected and it festers. On the other hand, if we give up just because we made a mistake, even a big mistake, none of us would get far in life.

Having a kid, or supplying the sperm to fertilize an egg, and then not being around to offer support or guidance, doesn't give you the right to say, "I'm your father." You can say, "I'm the guy who made you," but that's about it.

I know there's evil in the world, and there always has been. But you don't need to believe in Satan or demons to explain it. Human beings are perfectly capable of evil all by themselves.

Ignorance is no excuse. Deep down inside, all of us know exactly who and what we are, and what we should be doing in this lifetime.

Churches become unsafe places if its leaders fail to be honest, transparent, and reliable. Sincerity may not be the final basis of truth, but there is no deep truth communicated where sincerity is lacking.

Hail to you gods, on that day of the great reckoning. Behold me, I have come to you, without sin, without guilt, without evil, without a witness against me, without one whom I have wronged. I am one pure of mouth, pure of hands.

Girls secrets in the hands of boys is like Guns in the hands of gunsels

There is a great difference between one who can feel ashamed before his own soul and one who is only ashamed before his fellow men.

Euere Schuld, Deichgraf!" schrie eine Stimme aus dem Haufen.

was Aristotle who said that a man who committed an offence while intoxicated was doubly guilty: first of the offence itself, and second of having intoxicated himself.

They brought even their goats with them; and one goat can undo in an afternoon what it has taken decades to establish.

In a democratic age, only the behaviour of the authorities is subject to public criticism; that of the people themselves, never. This is a modern version of Rousseau's doctrine: if it weren't for the authorities, the people would be good.

Middle-class friends of mine were appalled to discover that the spelling being taught to their daughter in school was frequently wrong; they were even more appalled when they drew it to the attention of the school's head teacher and were told it did not matter, since the spelling was approximately right and everyone knew anyway what the misspelling meant.

A curious reversal in the locus of moral concern has taken place: people feel responsible for everything except for what they do.

The best politics for any president is to be a good president.

No man is above the law and no man below it.

The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.

No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer "Present" or "Not Guilty.

In any situation, the best thing you can do is the right thing; the next best thing you can do is the wrong thing; the worst thing you can do is nothing.

No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when we require him to obey it. Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.