It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable.
- Topic: Accountability
- Location: Red Rock
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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He’s a wonderful talker, who has the art of telling you nothing in a great harangue.
There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh unless, since their chief purpose is to make us bear with patience the injustice of our fellows.
More on Accountability
I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself—and be lenient to everybody else.
Everybody, sooner or later, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the induction of a new order of things.
There are a thousand excuses for failure but never a good reason.
Reality doesn't go away when it is ignored.
We hardly ever realize that we can cut anything out of our lives, anytime, in the blink of an eye.
We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.