Quotes About Accountability

From time to time you will hear someone starting an accusation with the phrase, "But YOU told me...." When hearing this, know that you are hearing someone who demands that you think for him, but who is eager to blame you when things go wrong. Beware of weak and revengeful people who accuse, "But YOU told me....

Some people make their own problems. And they never stop hurting themselves and messing up the people around them. When that's the case, then you shouldn't keep hurting yourself for them.

Maybe there's more we all could have done, but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next time.

I wish I could say I felt guilty for what I did. I don't.

If you eat something and get fat, you should be responsible for it. I think that is the attitude of the great majority of Americans, that you should be responsible for what you eat.

No matter what you do, be careful of what you say and if you happen to say it, do it.

Our decisions define our lives. We are the people we choose to be in the ways that most matter. Choose wisely. You will live with the choices you make. The choices you make define your character. And your character defines how you feel about yourself. That image of you is projected in hundreds of ways to others.

We've all had judgement lapses that had us tiptoeing toward our own personal apocalypse.'

To be successful, cultivate positive attitudes of self-respect, pride in your contribution to your workplace, dedication to your job, cooperation with your employers and coworkers, desire to do the job right, personal integrity, responsibility, and accountability—and do it just because you value your life energy.

if Westerners deem themselves too smart, too moral, or too soft to stop aggressors in this complex nuclear age, then—as Socrates and Aristotle alike remind us—they can indeed become real accomplices to evil through inaction.

Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.

You are responsible for what you put into the world.

He who does not cry out the truth when he knows the truth becomes the accomplice of the liars and falsifiers.

Blame has no face. I have walked on its staircase, around and around, trying to slap its face but only hitting my own cheeks.

The judge is not the knight-errant, roaming at will in pursuit of his own ideal of beauty or of goodness.

If we want liberation, we must rewrite the Sleeping Beauty myth. No one is coming and no one else is to blame.

The best thing that happened is I kept my promises. I ain't run out on nobody.

You can have the best intentions in the world but if you do nothing, you are nothing.

The best way to let others know what you're going to do is to actually do it.

Nobody makes me do anything I don't want to do. It's my decision. So the biggest devil is me. I'm either my best friend or my worst enemy.

Writing down your trades is the best exercise in the world.

We judge our own character by our best intentions and most noble acts, but we will be judged by our last worst act.

In my heart, I know I haven't been the best person, the best quarterback for the Steelers, I'm not talking just on the field, I'm talking off the field.

The best way to develop responsibility in people is to give them responsibility.