Quotes About Accountability

I take no actions that I wouldn't publicly recount. If you can't speak your deeds, then don't do them.

Every man shall give account of his life to his Maker.

When it came to life or death, or anything else important, the only one you could count on was yourself.

They're going to get the death penalty. They'll be strung up and made to be laughed at out in the streets and made examples of!

Let me ask you this: How many days do you have left, if any, in the life you promised for yourself yesterday?

Make sure to send a lazy man for the Angel of Death.

JD/Dr Cox: The second you start blaming yourself for people's deaths, there's no coming back.

If I have made a mistake in the design, then I'm the one who should pay for it. I certainly would not ask somebody else to fly a plane if I were afraid to do it myself.

The last person I ever want working for me is someone who says 'that's not in my job description.

The only thing of which one can be guilty is of having given ground relative to one's desire.

The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior.

When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. When you desire a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.

Only those who are in-charge are tackled and criticized by others so criticism is something desirable and should not be resented.

Statesman only talk of fate when they have blundered

Your behavior determines, to some extent, the destiny of your nation and your group.

Blaming destiny is a poor out for those who don't reach desired destinations.

I've learned that people will seldom let you down if they understand that your destiny is in their hands, and vice versa.

We can all control our own destiny. And I think sometimes it's a copout to say, "Well, it's this person's fault or another person's fault."

We create our own destiny by the way we do things. We have to take advantage of opportunities and be responsible for our choices.

Whatever our destiny is or may be, we have made it ourselves, and we do not complain of it.

Oh, come! That boot is on the other leg. Why should you call me to account for eating decently? If I battened on the scorched corpses of animals, you might well ask me why I did that

I think the dignity of Congress and the dignity of the country demands something more than merely censure here.

I can't even say I made my own mistakes. Really - one has to ask oneself - what dignity is there in that?

There's a dignity in consequences.