Quotes About Accountability

Don't be upset by the results you didn't get from the work you didn't do.

I've learned that our background and circumstances may have influenced who we are, but we are responsible for who we become.

You will never become who you want to be if you keep blaming everyone else for who you are now.

Who we are and who we will become is the result of our actions, no one can force you to do what you don't want to, you're responsible for your life.

Our background and circumstances may have influenced who we are, but we are responsible for who we become.

The generals responsible for the death of most soldiers insist upon their being well fed.

We pardon the crimes of individuals, but not their participation in a collective crime.

For decades (really centuries), the Roman Catholic Church, the Jehovah's Witnesses, and the ultra-Orthodox Jews, among others, have handled reports of clergy abuse as though the public good were not their problem and have insisted on silence as they refused to report the crimes to authorities.

This has been a repetitive pattern in the United States, where the Roman Catholic Church, the Jehovah's Witnesses, Orthodox Jews, and other denominations have had evidence that one of their own was a predatory pedophile, yet they responded by ignoring the problem, ultimately endangering thousands of children.

CAR TAPE. October 1994. I'd like to see us abolish the jury system. Why leave the fate of our nation in the hands of these moon rocks?

We need transparency in government spending. We need to put each government expenditure online so every Floridian can see where their tax money is being spent.

You can commit injustice by doing nothing.

A wrong-doer is often a man that has left something undone, not always he that has done something.

MICHAEL: Maybe just this: A manager has got to remember that he is on stage every day. His people are watching him. Everything he does, everything he says, and the way he says it, sends off clues to his employees. These clues affect performance. So never forget you are on that stage.

No Christian leader – no leader of any kind – is immune from the dangers of misuse of power and position.

Churches that lack accountability structures for leaders (or where leaders have dismantled them) are powerless when things go wrong. Not only are they driving without a seatbelt, they have cut the brakes and may be hurtling towards a cliff.

And he simply would not tolerate any other high-ranking officer, commissioned or noncommissioned, reaming out one of his guys. He

Don't promise twice what you can do at once.

I'm OK with firing people when they fuck up, but canning them when they've done nothing wrong - that's painful. [on the layoffs needed after 9/11 hit the business]

If what we make comes back to haunt us , to define us and alter us, well, then, hadn't we better be very careful what we create?

Who holds the ultimate responsibility for the story? The writer or the reader, the reader or the writer . . .

It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal.

The strong look for more strength, the weak for excuses.

The spiritual director has the double task of holding up the demands of absolute responsibility and the promise of absolute forgiveness.