Quotes about Accountability
Undertake not what you cannot perform but be careful to keep your promise.
- George Washington
Misfortunes occur only when a man is false.... Events, circumstances, etc., have their origin in ourselves. They spring from seeds which we have sown.
- Henry David Thoreau
It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment and learn again to exercise ... his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.
- Albert Schweitzer
If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.
- Calvin Coolidge
The buck stops here.
- Harry S. Truman
There is no such thing as concealment. Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are all sorry when we are discovered. Then we are very sorry.It's not the question if we're sorry. The question is did we draw a lesson? The question is: what are we going to do now, when we're sorry?
- JM Coetzee
The question is not, are we sorry? The question is, what lesson have we learned? The question is what are we going to do now that we are sorry?
- JM Coetzee
I'm just like the rest of the guys. I'm a little different in a lot of ways, but I'm still a player with a number on his back and if I'm unable to produce, they'll find somebody else to fill my spot.
- Donovan McNabb
It's really amazing that in the age of unbelief, as a smart man called it, there isn't even more fraud. After all, with no God, there's no one to ever call you to account, and no accounting at all if you can get away with it.
- Ben Stein
The sons of all of us will pay in the future if we of the present do not do justice in the present.
- Theodore Roosevelt