405 Quotes About Accountability

Five days of life practicing humanity is far more meaningful than fifty years of life practicing indifference.

We must take stock of our actions before we take others to task for theirs. And we’ll know that we’ve done that successfully when we find ourselves taking ourselves to task and suddenly realizing in that rather revealing process that the process can probably end with us.

Through thought discipline comes self discipline. Actions are products of thought.

Freedom of speech does not guarantee you a platform from which to air your opinions. You may hold trenchant views on a number of subjects but the fact that The Times won't print your ruminations doesn't mean you are being oppressed...While freedom of speech gives you the right to dissent and, yes, to offend, it does not give you the right to abuse.

Accountability breeds response-ability.

Perfection is a myth, some chivalrous knightA faulty matrix, a black Snow White.

Take accountability before an excuse snatches you.

It is easy to let go of the string and think: This isn't me, it's the arrow. My hands do not bear the blood of this boy, it's the arrow that killed him, not me. But the arrow does not dream at night.

From those to whom privilege and opportunity are given, we have the right to expect much.