405 Quotes About Accountability

If you make boozed up youngsters with no comprehension of civilization your role model, you will end up with a world outwardly sophisticated yet inwardly broken and empty.

Opinion is really the lowest form of human knowledge. It requires no accountability, no understanding. The highest form of knowledge… is empathy, for it requires us to suspend our egos and live in another’s world. It requires profound purpose larger than the self kind of understanding.

One of the bigger mistakes of our time, I suppose, was preaching the demonization of all judgment without teaching how to judge righteously. We now live in an age where, apart from the inability to bear even good judgment when it so passes by, still everyone, inevitably, has a viral opinion (judgment) about everything and everyone, but little skill in good judgment as its verification or harness.

Some want, to be exempt. They do not want to excel, they do not want to exert. They want to be considered excellent, for desiring to be held exempt, from all accountability.

More often than not, to blame someone else is to play ‘hot potato’ with something that’s neither hot nor a potato.

Own your mistakes. Even when you’re in the process ofscrewing up.

Never compromise your values.

Organizing a coup was not the same as wanting one.

The reason placing blame repeatedly fails to work is that I repeatedly place it on everyone else instead of where it actually belongs.