#accountability

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

— Thomas Paine

#trust #men

The evil of technology was not technology itself, Lindbergh came to see after the war, not in airplanes or the myriad contrivances of modern technical igenuity, but in the extent to which they can distance us from our better moral nature, or sense of personal accountability. ↗

— David McCullough

#morality #technology #nature

Peace comes from within.  Do not seek it without. ↗

— Gautama Buddha

#inner-peace #peace #self-acceptance #spiritual #spiritual

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

— Steve Maraboli

#friends #inspirational #life #motivational #purpose

But in this Congress, accountability is just a catch phrase, usually directed elsewhere. Demands to personal responsibility or corporate accountability abound, but rarely congressional accountability or fiscal responsibility. ↗

— Melissa Bean

#accountability #catch #catch phrase #congress #congressional

People underestimate the importance of dilligence as a virtue. No doubt it has something to do with how supremely mundane it seems. It is defined as "the constant and earnest effort to accomplish what is undertaken."... Understood, however, as the prerequisite of great accomplishment, diligence stands as one of the most difficult challenges facing any group of people who take on tasks of risk and consequence. It sets a high, seemingly impossible, expectation for performance and human behavior. ↗

— Atul Gawande

#inspirational #medicine #student-accountability #attitude

A local company has more accountability. ↗

— Paul Hawken

#company #local #more

You see so many artists who are so talented end up living sad, empty lives. This industry takes so much out of you that without the accountability and leaving God in the center, you can be left so empty and void. ↗

— Stacie Orrico

#artists #center #empty #end #god

Honesty, integrity, and accountability, the values, which should be the hallmark of this government, have instead been thrown under the bus by an arrogant majority, casualties in a misguided campaign to shield from accountability those who abuse this House. ↗

— Louise Slaughter

#accountability #arrogant #been #bus #campaign

There was after all no mystery in the end of love, no mystery but the mystery of love itself, which was large certainly but as real as grass, as natural and unaccountable as bloom and branch and their growth. ↗

— John Crowley

#branch #grass #growth #love #mystery