All Quotes By Tag: Accountability

“Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.”

“Stop blaming other people for your own behavior! Own the truth. If you don’t like it, then invest the time and energy to change it.”

“You may have given the best of everything to your family but if you failed to inspire the right values, if your arrogance is remembered more than your love, if you don’t get the respect that you expect; the accountability lies with you and how far you escorted yourself in the pursuit of success.”

“You’ll blame your conditions, others will blame your decisions.”

“When the truth hurts, create a better truth.”

“If you think someone or something other than yourself is responsible for your happiness or success, I’d guess you’re not that happy or successful.”

“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.”

“Why am I always lost in the woods,” I yell at the top of my voice! And if I choose to settle down for a moment and be honest with myself, I’ll rather reluctantly admit that I drew the map.”

“Bravery is the choice to show up and listen to another person, be it a loved one or perceived foe, even when it is uncomfortable, painful, or the last thing you want to do.”

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

“Until our world decides that every human matters, that everyone has a right to food and safety and freedom and healthcare and equality, it is the obligation of those privileged to have food and safety and freedom and healthcare and equality to fight tirelessly for those who do not.”

“If people in the position of power are not made to be accountable, then, ungodliness, injustice and oppression will continue to be the order of the day in the society.”

“We have to endure the discordance between imagination and fact. It is better to say, “I am suffering,” than to say, “This landscape is ugly.”

“Never compromise your values.”

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