Quotes About Accountability

Citizens exercised parrhesia, which translates as 'all speech', or sometimes 'true speech'.

anonymous blogger can print a leaked document or run a denunciation of an abuse of power. But if the abuse is to be tackled, then the blogger or the people who have read his or her work must go out and campaign for change in public.

Don't let someone spend money who never earned it.

Free will was the greatest gift ever offered. God is not responsible for what we did with it. We are. - The Old Man And The Wasteland

When you're in the car, how well you do is down to you and you alone-no band, no management, no marketing.

Guilt was one feeling. We had all played some part in bringing Syd to his present state, either through denial, a lack of responsibility, insensitivity or downright selfishness.

If I've learned anything this trip, it's that you have to take responsibility for what you don't do, as well as what you do.

Great leaders are not always popular.

Character is what you do when no one else is watching.

A truly unselfish team player does not care who gets credit for success and is willing to take on blame when things don't go right. Unfortunately, we live in a world when the selfish seem to outnumber the unselfish. Pat Riley points out that the people who create 20 percent of a team's effectiveness may feel that they are deserving of 80 percent of the credit and rewards. The weaker links on a team or in an organization are often the ones who clamor for more credit.

Lesson 2. Great leaders allow the team to take ownership of the rules.

If you get mad at someone for being right, they'll second-guess themselves constantly. If you yell at them for telling the truth, they'll just lie next time.

Successful, self-starting individuals seek responsibility. They take calculated risks; they don't make excuses to cover up their inactivity.

When others, a man begins to blame He'll soon find himself alone, The same.

It takes two to make a relationship, but only one to screw it up.

Do something about it, or shut up.

Rather face the consequences if the truth rather than the reprocussions of a lie

It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.

The more debris there is the more it will show the governor's activity.

would he need to consider my feelings if at any point he should feel minded to blame

Niente è più bello che essere in tutto debitori soltanto a se stessi.

Don't blame the mirror if your mug's askew. —Popular saying

If a woman sleeps alone it puts a shame on all men. God has a very big heart, but there is one sin He will not forgive. If a woman calls a man to her bed and he will not go.

Individuals must take responsibility for their choices and cannot hide behind convention or rules.