Quotes about Accountability

We can't claim heaven as our own if we are just going to sit under it.

Consequences are unpitying. Our deeds carry their terrible consequences, quite apart from any fluctuations that went before—consequences that are hardly ever confined to ourselves. And it is best to fix our minds on that certainty, instead of considering what may be the elements of excuse for us.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

Cathy told her that the most important thing in life was to clean up one's own mess, commit oneself a hundred percent to reality, place all one's energy in the present moment, and to do so right now, immediately.

We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.

He who is shipwrecked twice is foolish to blame the sea.

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Let no guilty man escape, if it can be avoided. No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty.

Let wickedness escape as it may at the bar, it never fails of doing justice upon itself; for every guilty person is his own hangman.

Each man is his own absolute lawgiver and dispenser of glory or gloom to himself, the maker of his life, his reward, his punishment.

As a leader, the first person I need to lead is me. The first person that I should try to change is me.

We're all complicit in the things we may be trying to oppose. I'm complicit in the things that I'm trying to oppose.