Accountability Quotes

"You have to hold yourself accountable for your actions." "Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat." "Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices." "We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - you can blame anyone, but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change." "We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future." "We must speak truth no matter how uncomfortable it may be" "A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday" "As you have sown, so shall you reap." "People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become " "I'm not a role model" "Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others." "Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat." "Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts" "While anonymity can be used to protect heroes, it is far more commonly used as a way to escape responsibility." "Trust is earned in drops and lost in buckets." "These problems were not created by government action, or government inaction. We created them, and only we can fix them" "You only find out who is swimming naked when the tide goes out" "Those who fight corruption should be clean themselves." "If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it." "We have to be able to criticize what we love, to say what we have to say, because if you're not trying to make something better, then really you're just complacent"