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Quotes About Accountability

People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.
~ Unknown
You can't correct your mistakes you've already done, but you can face them. You can tell the truth and seek forgiveness.
~ Unknown
Every mistakes is always forgivable, if you have the courage to admit and accept them.
~ Unknown
I don't accept apologies. Let's be honest nothing helps less than a sorry.
~ Unknown
Be careful who you give second chances to and make sure they truly deserve it.
~ Unknown
It is not the errors of others, but our own miscalculations, on which we wreak our lasting vengeance. It is ourselves that we cannot forgive.
~ William Hazlitt
The offender never pardons
~ George Herbert
Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.
~ Bruce Lee
Forgiveness does not absolve you from consequences,
~ Tom DeLay
The time for forgiveness and overlooking and waiting is over because you just don't have those numbers of games left. We got to have people going out there now doing the job, not hoping they are doing it.
~ Frank Robinson
Who's going to feel sorry for him? You know they're illegal, whether it was two years ago or five years ago. You shouldn't do it. All you can do is ask for forgiveness.
~ Unknown
For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?
~ bell hooks
It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.
~ Grace Hopper
You can't undo anything you've already done, but you can face up to it. You can tell the truth. You can seek forgiveness. And then let God do the rest.
~ Tertullian
A man does not have to feel less than human to realize his sin; oppositely, he has to realize that he gets no special vindication for his sin.
~ Criss Jami
The worst people are those who take credits for the other's successes and blame others for their own failures.
~ Unknown
Lying is always a mistake. if you've done something wrong just tell the truth so you won't commit two mistakes.
~ Unknown
If you have a problem with me, tell me. Not everybody else!
~ Unknown
Sorry works when Mistakes are made, but sorry does not work when trust is broken. So in life, do mistakes, but never break trust.
~ Unknown
My friend is one who tell me my faults in the private.
~ Unknown
I had one of my good friends kicked out of college for domestic violence. He had his college career ruined.
~ Eric Turner
If you share your friend's crime, you make it your own
~ Latin proverb
Contests allow no excuses, no more do friendships.
~ Unknown
Stay with friends who will keep you on a straight path. Those who remind you when you forget and correct you when you err. Hold on to them.
~ Mufti Ismail Menk