Quotes About Accountability

Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life.

The fox condemns the trap, not himself.

He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence.

But Raynor wondered, should evil go unpunished just because it's wielded by someone in power? Was

Run your business like you own it. When you trust people to solve problems and make decisions, and then let them go, that's when the magic happens.

Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.

A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.

I can't do nothing. Just put it off. And that don't do no good. I reckon it belong to me. I reckon what I going to get ain't no more than mine.

Y son los buenos los que no pueden rechazar la cuenta cuando se la presentan. Por la sencilla razón de que les pueden obligar a pagarla

Father said it used to be a gentleman was known by his books, nowadays he is known by the ones he has not returned.

the idea (not mine: your great-grandfather's) being that even at eleven a man should already have behind him one year of paying for, assuming responsibility for, the space he occupied, the room he took up, in the world's (Jefferson, Mississippi's, anyway) economy.

A man's damnation is his own damned business.

Power does not corrupt people, people corrupt people.

What do you think we ought to do? she asked. Do? Put his sorry ass away. Tell the law and let them open the graves themselves. Put him away forever in some crazyhouse. They'd have to. You think they would? I know they would. What would you do with him? There's supposed to be respect for the dead. It's the way we evolved or something. It's genetic. This man here…he wouldn't cull anything. He'd do anything.

The future, eventually, will find you out. The future, wielding unimaginable tools of transparency, will have its way with you. In the end, you will be seen to have done that which you did.

The trouble was, if you were a chief you had to think, you had to be wise.

are those who have neglected their duties, and consequently have failed to get their rights. The

distribution of rewards and punishments between those who have done their duty and those who have not.

Let every man sweep the snow from before his own doors, and not busy himself about the frost on his neighbour?s tiles.

If a man fools me once, shame on him. If he fools me twice, shame on me.

No shade tree? Blame not the sun, but yourself.

Kendi ay?b?n? örtmek isteyen ba?kalar?n?n yüzüne kara çalar.

A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.

With the online tracking sheet, Cachon was using the hotel-towel strategy. He was publicizing the group norm. Other people are getting their work done on time. Why won't you?