Quotes About Accountability

Feelings are feelings. I don't understand why people blame other people for what they feel.

I believe in payback. For the little things, for the big ones. For everything in between. Letting people screw you over is just lazy and uncreative.

Mr. Tarmack,if you try to put a jockey on this horse, I'll have you up on charges.In fact,I'm damn well having you up on charges regardless.

A leader's who everybody looks to for answers, even when there aren't any. Who everyone blames when things go wrong. A leader's the one who has to do the dirty work, even if it's the damn dishes.

I hope they're smarter than that," Roarke said. "They made a choice, for a child they didn't even know. If that child made choices as a man, it's on him. What we do with our lives always is.

The cops, we know that the victims, the ones who are broken or shattered or dead . . . or dead, they need somebody to stand up for them, to say, 'Goddamn it, it is your fault. You did this, and you have to pay for it, no matter if your mother beat you or your father . . . No matter what, you don't have the right to damage the next guy.' 

With great power comes great responsibility

when you mess up, you have to face up to it, make it right. Then people respect you, and even more, you can, you know, respect yourself." She felt a twinge in her gut as she dumped chocolate powder in a mug. "Man," she muttered. "Everybody makes mistakes, but cowards hide from them.

And sooner or later, I'll make her pay for it. And I'll hold your coat. In the meantime, go to bed

Thanking someone for where your life ended up is the same as blaming them for it. We're all responsible for ourselves.

My family's caused your pain, she said to Theo and Maddy. I'm head of the family and responsible for that pain. Dad works for you. He was doing his job. As his stomach continued to shudder, Theo clenched his teeth. It's that bastard's fault, not yours. Is he in jail? No. They've yet to find him. It appears he's run.

If I screw this up, you won't have to take a swing at me. Parker would already have flattened

A leader will be honored, but a leader carries the burden for us all.

A leader's who everybody looks to for answers, even when there aren't any. Who everyone blames when things go wrong.

You can't blame yourself for being, Kirby.(...) You can't blame a tree for reaching for the sun or another for rotting from within. We make our own choices and we're each responsible for them. Blame and credit belong to the individual. You haven't the right to claim either from someone else.

She's just mean. I guess some people are, and if they never pay a real price for it, they just get meaner.

In today's climate no one wants imperfection in their leaders. Once a flaw is dug out, as the press is hell-bent to do, it's maximized and twisted until it becomes a bigger issue than a man's record.

Se uma nação varre os seus crimes para debaixo do tapete, aumenta o risco de repeti-los e perpetua a falsa imagem de si mesma, a qual é suscetível de distorcer as suas outras percepções.

if there is no God, everything is lawful

Part of the presidential job description is the absorption of public vitriol.

Maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don't do. The things you don't finish.

The voice says, maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don't do. The things you don't finish.

For thousands of years, human beings had screwed up and trashed and crapped on this planet, and now history expected me to clean up after everyone. I have to wash out and flatten my soup cans. And account for every drop of used motor oil. And I have to foot the bill for nuclear waste and buried gasoline tanks and landfilled toxic sludge dumped a generation before I was born.

Hey, you created me! I didn't create some loser alter-ego to make myself feel better. Take some responsibility!