What I’ve yet to realize is that each time I work to avoid that which I fear, I have in that very same action forfeited the blessings that my fear blinded me to. And I’ve...

Absolution is the most powerful form of forgiveness. A full pardon from suspicion and accountability. It’s the liberation of a stolen future. A future my father never lived to see. Absolution is a mercy the...

What they’ve said is they need things tightened up. They need some accountability. And that’s my job.

If you hang out with chickens, you’re going to cluck and if you hang out with eagles, you’re going to fly.

The pressure of adversity is the most powerful sustainer of accountability. It’s as though everything you do is multiplied by 50 in order to surpass those with a head-start. I was never capable of slacking...

We know what we should do. Age is no excuse. Do we go to others for permission or for discipline?

A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.

Accountability and self-responsibility are critical to our success in personal, professional and public life. However, we often look for those character traits in others, rather than inculcating them in ourselves.

The standard of a true leader is that he sets also his own rules rather than merely and blindly obeying the set of standard rules, even if it means being treated as an idiot or...

With accountability, … teachers can’t spend time in exercises in political correctness, or fun and games in the classroom. When there’s a more focused academic effort, some of the fluff goes.

Människor är inte så små som man tror. Och inte så stora. Felet med att ha makten som bedömningsgrund och inte handlingarna är att nästan alla friskriver sig då, var och en hittar sin maktlöshet...

If you aren’t diligently working towards changing something that bothers you, you rescind your right to complain about it.

Across the world, the lack of accountability for the harm to the environment and public health caused by conflict and military activities undermines global efforts to help fragile countries recover from armed conflicts

It’s the integral part of the state’s accountability system. It’s a high-stakes test, and it’s highly secure. It’s important they follow all the guidelines and policies for test security before, during and after test administration.

The problem with ID, of course, is that it leaves open the possibility that the intelligence behind nature may have a moral interest in us, having communicated already with humanity in the past, and might...

Reach out, share your truth, tell someone, “This is who I am. This is what I stand for. Hold me to it.” Often, we’ll do far more for another than we will do for ourselves.

The right thing to do and the hard thing to do are usually the same.

Accountability is the essence of democracy. If people do not know what their government is doing, they cannot be truly self-governing. The national security state assumes the government secrets are too important to be shared,...

In our tribunal, we look only at personal criminal responsibility in a very tightly defined, narrow way and we demand proof beyond a resonable doubt about the involvement of the individual. We do no have...

Accountability is a concept we’re going to stand by, and part of that is being in the best shape possible. It’s very important how you show up here.

You steadily grow into becoming your best as you choose to be accountable and accept responsibility for improvement.

Often the best source of information about waste, fraud, and abuse in government is an existing government employee committed to public integrity and willing to speak out. Such acts of courage and patriotism, which can...

When you live today, being accountable for yesterday, today will be better because you would have taken the chance to know the activities and people who unmade and made your day and edit today’s plans...

We do not want to put people deliberately in harm’s way because of the current lack of accountability in government.

Your humility is what secures your future and there is nothing like accountability partners who keep you real.

Toxic remnants of war represent a profound challenge for the protection of public health and the restoration of the environment in countries affected by conflict.

The people who say poverty is no excuse for low performance are now using teacher accountability as an excuse for doing nothing about poverty.

All my failures as a human being I blame on my father. Life is about accepting responsibility, and it’s time my father started being held accountable for my deficiencies.

[Government] regulation is an imperfect substitute for the accountability, and trust, built into a market in which food producers meet the gaze of eaters and vice versa.

Never compromise your values.

Reality. Sometimes it comes through foreign eyes; because if you don’t know any better, you can’t see the worse. Or vice versa.

You are a manager, nonetheless who you are. There is a business worth keeping and you are the manager of that business. Yes, the business of your life. There is a big asset worth managing;...

you don’t have to worry about burning bridges, if you’re building your own

You ChoseYou chose.You chose.You chose.You chose to give away your love.You chose to have a broken heart. You chose to give up. You chose to hang on.You chose to react.You chose to feel insecure.You chose...

If untruths become part of our language—untruths that in context are intended to be interpreted as polite expressions or figure of speech—then each person is left to decide for themselves the meaning of any sentence....

Dr. Talbon was struck by another very important thing. It all hung together. The stories Cheryl told — even though it was upsetting to think people could do stuff like that — they were not...

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.

This landscape is ugly.

Lack of accountability weakens the environmental and health rights of citizens; it damages peace- building and reconciliation initiatives; impedes the implementation of global health policies; leads to the loss of ecosystems and biodiversity; and weakens...

You are effectively presiding over the end of government accountability in the Senate.

Right now, we have a system with no accountability. A judge can order someone to treatment, and they can do whatever they want. To have a system where so few people show up is shocking.

It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one’s acts.

Change can never be good until you face it head-on.

Reality. It is sometimes brought through foreign eyes; because if you do not know any better, you cannot see the worse. And vice versa.

to be right in the wrong direction may be wrong; what then is the wrong direction?

When people say “If I only knew then what I know now” makes me wonder why they aren’t using that wisdom now.

Sometimes your belief system is really your fears attached to rules.

Just because you’re an adult doesn’t mean you’re grown up. Growing up means being patient, holding your temper, cutting out the self-pity, and quitting with the righteous indignation.”Why do so many people seem to love...

Never wake up waiting to hear a command from someone before you make a move; be responsible! Never repeat what made you to waste an hour of yesterday; be accountable!

The reluctant will heed wisdom only when the confidence exhibited by the righteous awakens the seed of introspection,and the awareness of acountability, into the psyche of the uncertain.