Quotes About Accountability

Even if you don't expect anything from life, doesn't life expect something from you?

There is no conceivable human condition in which man may be relieved of the tension between what he has done and, on the other hand, what he must yet do or should have done.

I cannot be guilty of something that other people have done, even if it is my parents or grandparents.

Freedom is part of the story and half of the truth. Being free is but the negative aspect of the whole phenomenon whose positive aspect is being responsible. Freedom may degenerate into mere arbitrariness unless it is lived in terms of responsibleness.

As for the concept of collective guilt, I personally think that it is totally unjustified to hold one person responsible for the behavior of another person or a collective of persons.

This emphasis on responsibleness is reflected in the categorical imperative of logotherapy, which is: Live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!

Keegi ei tohiks kohut mõista enne, kui ta on endale kõigutamatu aususega vastanud, kas ta ise oleks säärases olukorras kindlalt toiminud teisiti.

The point is not what we expect from life, but rather what life expects from us.

Live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now! It seems to me that there is nothing which would stimulate a man's sense of responsibleness more than this maxim, which invites him to imagine first that the present is past and, second, that the past may yet be changed and amended.

Only slowly could these men be guided back to the commonplace truth that no one has the right to do wrong, not even if wrong has been done to them. We had to strive to lead them back to this truth.

Freedom, however, is not the last word. Freedom is only part of the story and half of the truth. Freedom is but the negative aspect of the whole phenomenon whose positive aspect is responsibleness. In fact, freedom is in danger of degenerating into mere arbitrariness unless it is lived in terms of responsibleness.

For of those to whom much is given, much is required." Since Ohlmeyer was a gifted mathematician, much

For of those to whom much is given, much is required.

wouldn't it be easier to just do a competent job than to spend all your time covering your ass?

Everyone makes mistakes. What matters is that we try to make up for them.

Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do. They are driven by instincts which are not within their control.

I should implore you to remember your responsibilities, to be higher, more spiritual; I should remind you how much depends on you, and what an influence you can exert upon the future.

Disengaged employees are an unfortunate reality in the workplace, and poor leadership is often to blame.

Pogo was right when he proclaimed, "I have met the enemy, and it is us.

The beauty of HTML was that one-way linking made it very simple to spread because you could put something up and take no responsibility whatsoever. And that creates a society in which people display no responsibility whatsoever. That's the problem.

There is no difference between machine autonomy and the abdication of human responsibility.

Power broken into a thousand pieces can be hidden and disowned.

If my mom reads that I'm grammatically incorrect I'll have hell to pay.

Lu-cy...you have some s'plainin' to do. ~Gem