Quotes about Accountability

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

The logical outcome of evolution is that it makes monsters. We turn into monsters because evolution takes away everything that makes us human in the sense of our moral accountability, our moral absolutes, and our idea of being distinct from the animal kingdom.

Today in coaching, it's a two-way street. They can fire you whenever they want. Bottom line: It's all about what you can do to better yourself professionally. This is a better move.

We want to pin a reason to it or else we get terrified anyone else might do the same thing. Including us.

In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for 'finding himself.' If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.

What difference does it make to you what someone else becomes, or says, or does? You do not need to answer for others, only for yourself.

To regard anyone except yourself as responsible for your judgment is to be a slave, not a free man. It

Building alibis is a deeply rooted habit.

The world will forgive you if you make mistakes, but it will never forgive you if you make no DECISIONS, because it will never hear of you outside of the community in which you live.

Before complaining that you are a slave to another, be sure that you are not a slave to self.

When people are lame, they love to blame.

Many feel that in today's climate some of those in authority are exercising, in effect, a self-serving, 'ends justify the means' mindset as well, and that, in turn, empowers them to do the same.