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Quotes about accountability
Words on accountability — gathered from across the ages, set on the page.
How can I blame the wind for the mess it made, if it was me who opened the window.— Anonymous
If you are pained by anything external, it is not this thing that disturbs you, but your own judgement of it.— Marcus Aurelius
Some things are within our control and some things are not. Within our control are opinion, motivation, desire, aversion, and our actions. Not within our control are our body, property, reputation, and office.— Epictetus
If you wish to improve, be content to appear foolish and stupid regarding externals.— Epictetus
It is not things themselves that trouble us, but our judgements about those things.— Epictetus
When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.— Confucius
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.— Henry David Thoreau
Loyalty to petrified opinions never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul in this world—and never will.— Mark Twain
The desert grows: woe to him in whom deserts hide.— Friedrich Nietzsche
What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.— Aristotle
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.— Oscar Wilde