Society...Institutions...ACCOUNTABILITY
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1148 A
“When an archer misses the mark, he turns and looks for the fault within himself. Failure to hit A the bull’s-eye is never the fault of the target. To improve your aim - improve yourself.”
— Gilbert Arland
ACCOUNTABILITY, Excellence, Failure, Attitude, Punishment
1149 CA
“A poor workman always finds fault with his tools.” — Unknown
ACCOUNTABILITY, Punishment, Planning, Errors, Perception
1150
“It is not alone what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable.”
— Jean Baptiste Moliere
ACCOUNTABILITY, Procrastination, Potential
1151
“The reason people blame things on previous generations is that there’s only one other choice.”
— Doug Larsen
ACCOUNTABILITY, Punishment
1152 P
“Every man is his own ancestor, and every man is his own heir. He devises his own future, and
he inherits his own past.” — Frederick Henry Hedge
ACCOUNTABILITY, Potential, Vision
1153
“The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.” — Aldous Huxley
ACCOUNTABILITY, War & Peace, Hate
1154 A
“Justice is as strictly due between neighbor nations, as between neighbor citizens. A
highwayman is as much a robber when he plunders in a gang, as when single; and a nation that makes an unjust war is only a great gang of robbers.”
— Benjamin Franklin
ACCOUNTABILITY, War & Peace, Law
1155
“A team is a mutual protection society formed to guarantee that no one person can be to blame for a botched committee job that one man could have performed satisfactorily.”
— Russell Baker
ACCOUNTABILITY, Effectiveness, Errors, Individualism, Business, Punishment
1156 P
“Anytime we think the problem is ‘out there’, that thought is the problem.” — Stephen R. Covey
ACCOUNTABILITY, Attitude, Pessimism, Adversity, Punishment
1157 A
“Only our concept of time makes it possible for us to speak of the Day of Judgment by that name;
in reality it is a summary court in perpetual session.” — Franz Kafka
ACCOUNTABILITY, God, Law
1158
“They had to be in the game emotionally, and as a team, not as individuals...
each player had a role in a system larger than himself, and each one owed it to the others to know his assignment and take responsibility for his own play.” — Joseph Vincent Paterno
ACCOUNTABILITY, Health & Fitness, Business
1159
“How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.” — Benjamin Franklin
ACCOUNTABILITY, Ego, Character, Perseverance
1160 P
“No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.” — Stanislaw Lee
ACCOUNTABILITY, Punishment
1161
“No man was ever endowed with a right without being at the same time saddled with a responsibility.” — Gerald White Johnson
ACCOUNTABILITY, Government
1162
“It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.”
— Marcel Proust
ACCOUNTABILITY, Sadness, Anger
1163
“Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things and I’ll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.” — Lawrence Dale Bell
ACCOUNTABILITY, Excellence, Errors, Haste, Attitude
1164 H
“Never learn to do anything: if you don’t learn, you’ll always find someone else to do it for you.”
— Mark Twain
ACCOUNTABILITY, Knowledge
1165
“Never trouble another for what you can do yourself.” — Thomas Jefferson
ACCOUNTABILITY, Individualism, Motivation
ACCOUNTABILITY Cross-References
Wealth—39, 52 • Motivation—94 •
Errors—312 • Failure—392, 399 • Personal
Management—453 • Effectiveness—472 • Potential—480 •
Vision—651 • Chance—668-669 • Greed—889 •
Conscience—973, 981 • Sin—1022 • Leadership—1140 •
Reward—1213 • Politics—1231, 1234, 1243, 1250 •
Law—1314 • War & Peace—1335 • Individualism—1354 •
Speeches—1406
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