Gerard Arpey Quotes

Sometimes the most motivated person to change something is the one being held accountable at the moment.

I'm a person who promotes the concept of accountability to a great extent, and I've spoken in the Parliament and reinforced the need for accountability.

No excuses and no sob stories. Life is full of excuses if you're looking. I have no time to gripe over misfortune. I don't waste time looking back.

We must wake ourselves up! Or somebody else will take our place, and bear our cross, and thereby rob us of our crown.

I always say, decisions I make, I live with them. There's always ways you can correct them or ways you can do them better. At the end of the day, I live with them.

It is always your next move.

You have to make your choice and live with your choice.

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

When you're in a situation, you can complain about it, you can feel sorry for yourself, you can do a lot of things. But how are you gonna make the situation better?

You get to the point in life where you realize you have to roll up your sleeves, deal with the consequences of what happens, and carry your own weight.

In my life as a soldier and citizen, I have seen time and time again that inaction has dire consequences.

I like to encourage people to realize that any action is a good action if it's proactive and there is positive intent behind it.

I behaved worse than anybody for 15 years, and you have to pay the price for that. I used to blame other people, then therapy made me realise I had to change.

Since we own our bodies, we also inevitably own the effects of our actions, be they good or bad. If we own the effects of our actions, then clearly we own that which we produce, whether what we produce is a bow, or a book - or a murder.

If people have done something wrong then they should be held accountable.

You know, I feel like if I don't change something, then the results maybe are going to continue the way that they have. That for me is not something that I want to really be a part of.

You can't always wait for the guys at the top. Every manager at every level in the organization has an opportunity, big or small, to do something. Every manager's got some sphere of autonomy. Don't pass the buck up the line.

Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act.

Regardless of the difficulties we may face individually, in our families, in our communities and in our nation, the old adage is still true - you can make excuses or you can make progress, but you cannot make both! The America I know doesn't make excuses.

One person's embarrassment is another person's accountability.

When in doubt, do something.

I believe in the freedom of expression, unequivocally - though, as I have written before, I wish more people would understand that freedom of expression is not freedom from consequence.

When I hear something going wrong, I insist on it being put right.

It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.

It's not the time to look for excuses.