Quotes About Accountability

One of the most important steps in therapy is helping people take responsibility for their current predicaments,

That's right - sometimes hell is us. Sometimes we are the cause of our own difficulties. And if we can step out of our own way, something astonishing happens.

One of the most important steps in therapy is helping other people take responsibility for their current predicaments, because once they realize that they can (and must) construct their own lives, they're free to generate change.

Freedom involves responsibility, and there's a part of most of us that finds responsibility frightening.

At some point, being a fulfilled adult means taking responsibility for the course of your own life and accepting the fact that now you're in charge of your choices.

People communicate through their attendance—whether they're prompt or late, cancel an hour beforehand, or don't show up at all.

She wasn't willing to look at what she was doing that made it difficult for people to give her what she wanted.

biggest troublemaker you'll ever meet stares you in the face when you brush your teeth. —Dutch Callahan

Don't blame the stream. Blame the dumbass who climbed into a laundry cart when it was parked at the top of a hill.

When you make a mistake, don't make a second one -- keeping it to yourself. Own up. The time to sort out rotten eggs is at the nest. The deeper you hide them in the case the longer they stay in circulation, and the worse impression they make when they finally come to the breakfast table.

The great secret of good management is to be more alert to prevent a man's going wrong than eager to punish him for it.

There is one excuse for every mistake a man can make, but only one. When a fellow makes the same mistake twice he's got to throw up both hands and own up to carelessness or cussedness.

Thou seest, thou wicked varlet, now, what's come upon thee: thou art to continue, now, thou varlet; thou art to continue.

we are not a reflection of others' behavior, only our own.

Choose to take care of the careless and you will end up having nought

Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.

Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.

Up to a point a person's life is shaped by environment, heredity, and changes in the world about them. Then there comes a time when it lies within their grasp to shape the clay of their life into the sort of thing they wish it to be. Only the weak blame parents, their race, their times, lack of good fortune or the quirks of fate. Everyone has the power to say, "This I am today. That I shall be tomorrow.

A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself. You have a chance to select from pretty elegant furnishings.

And at this hour of the day it is no good saying 'Take away this cup'; Having helped to fill it ourselves it is only logic That now we should drink it up.

When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.

You're responsible for yourself. You messed up your life, and it's up to you to fix it. No one else is going to do it for you -- for any of you.

Well, let me tell you something, Caveman. You are here on account of one person. If it wasn't for that person, you wouldn't be here digging holes in the hot sun. You know who that person is?" "My no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather.

To whom much has been given, much is expected