Quotes About Accountability

To say you have no choice is to release yourself from responsibility and that's not how a person with integrity acts.

Never take anything you haven't earned; You always end up paying for it one way or another.

Let your actions be your words.

Hold, Sir, I say! None of your profanity before me. If I do evil to anyone on such occasions, it is because he will have it so; therefore, the evil is not of my doing.

How scary it might prove to conclude that I am essentially alone in this summons to personal consciousness, that I cannot continue to blame others for what has happened to me, that I am really out there on that tightrope over the abyss, making choices every day, and that I am truly, irrevocably responsible for my life. That I would have to grow up, stand naked before this immense brutal universe, and step in to the largeness of this journey, my journey.

It is much easier to deny, blame others, project elsewhere, or bury it and just keep on rolling.

the quickest, efficient, least expensive way to educate a man is to make it painful for him when he is wrong, the same as with any other animal.

How about when I get to work, there was a note attached to a new chair at my desk saying If you break it , you buy the next one. I sent an email out saying if I break it replace it with the old one, there was nothing wrong with it.

The sentimentalist is he who would enjoy without incurring the immense debtorship for a thing done.

People were not what they said. They were not what they thought. They were not what they promised. People were what they did. When the final tally was done, nothing else mattered.

I had learned long ago that resolution by itself is not enough; we are what we do, not what we think and feel.

Two kinds of cops eat their gun: the corrupt ones and the ones who let the dead lay claim upon the quick.

resolution by itself is not enough; we are what we do, not what we think and feel.

What we do is punish the people who are available," she said.

PEOPLE ARE WHAT they do, not what they think, not what they say.

Maybe justice is finally catching up with this asshole.

I don't like to bust drunk drivers. I don't like to listen to their explanations, watch their pitiful attempts to affect sobriety, or see the sheen of fear break out in their eyes when they realize they're headed for the drunk tank with little to look forward to in the morning except the appearance of their names in the newspaper. Or maybe in truth I just don't like to see myself when I look into their faces.

When chaos loomed, reason and accountability went out of the window.

When it comes to deciding whether a leader is believable, people first listen to the words, then they watch the actions. They listen to the talk, and then they watch the walk. They listen to the promises of resources to support change initiatives, and then they wait to see if the money and materials follow.

It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.

Iggy: So what are we going to do? Yeah leader, lead.

We all make choices. We all have to live with them.

I think if you did, you might not be shocked by it. Teachers are expected to do more and more, and much of the parenting authority has been ceded to us by the parents. In the media they call it teacher accountability, but really it's a lack of parent accountability. There's no respect anymore. I'm afraid I find the violence in this case shocking but not exactly the murder itself. Does that make sense?

While God had not forsaken this place, He was clearly expecting us to hold up our end, as it appeared He was needed elsewhere.