Quotes About Accountability

We caused the problems: then we sat and watched as they grew into crises.

It's too easy to follow bad but attractive leaders, embrace pleasurable but destructive habits, ignore looming disaster because maybe it won't happen after all—or maybe it will only happen to other people. That kind of thinking is part of what it means to be adolescent.

You're right. People do blame you for the things they do to you.

Then he that had received the five talents went and traded with the same and made them another five talents. And likewise he that had received two, he also gained another two. But he that had received one went out and digged in the earth, and hid his lord's money.

I wonder what you have to do to become a cop. I wonder what a badge is, other than a license to steal.

Nothing is going to save us. If we don't save ourselves, we're dead.

are, too, don't forget. People who poison each other, then disclaim all responsibility.

Serious misbehavior is harder to get away with, harder even to begin when everyone who sees you knows who you are, where you live, who your family is, and whether you have any business doing what you're doing.

To get along with God, Consider the consequences of your behavior.

Cops are not trusting people.

I have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things.

He who has never tasted jail Lives well within the legal pale, While he who's served a heavy sentence Renews the racket, not repentance.

Whether or not you go in a positive direction depends entirely on you. You have to be your own teacher and try to figure out what it takes to accomplish your goals. You have to be your own judge and try to get yourself to do the right thing and stop yourself from doing the wrong thing. Take responsibility for yourself. (17th Karmapa)

What is the point of a law that applies only to some? The law should be observed for everyone without exception, wherever our ships and our money are able to take us.

The further north you go, the more people concentrate on themselves, and in some sort of northern madness (no doubt due to the lack of sun) they ascribe to themselves too much. They make themselves responsible for their actions.

I am here to accept responsibility for that which I did. I will not accept responsibility for that which I did not do.

I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing... and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!

Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.

You are responsible for your life. You can't keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on.

We are each responsible for our own life - no other person is or even can be.

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Conscience is the chamber of justice.

Leaders always choose the harder right rather than the easier wrong.

Average leaders raise the bar on themselves; good leaders raise the bar for others; great leaders inspire others to raise their own bar.