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Quotes About Accountability

The charges we bring against others often come home to ourselves; we inveigh against faults which are as much ours as theirs; and so our eloquence ends by telling against ourselves.
~ St. Jerome
Sins, like chickens, come home to roost.
~ Charles W. Chesnutt
Don't come crying to me if your homes are attacked. You will reap what you sow.
~ Ian Paisley
It is very easy to point fingers at others sitting at home, but very difficult to play the game.
~ Misbah-ul-Haq
Go home. Let me do my community service.
~ Boy George
Going home must be like going to render an account.
~ Joseph Conrad
You play a part, and as soon as a movie is over and the camera stops, you go home and you're not really responsible for what you've done.
~ Nastassja Kinski
If it isn't bolted down, bring it home.
~ Grace Hopper
If you want to see the greatest threat to your financial future, go home and take a look in the mirror.
~ Jonathan Clements
Curses are like young chickens, theyalways come home to roost.
~ Robert Southey
Are you not accustomed to look at home, when you abuse others?
~ Plautus
If you want someone to grab a beer with, I may not be that guy. But if you want someone to drive you home, I will get the job done and I will get you home.
~ Ted Cruz
Let everyone turn himself around, and look at home, and he will find enough to do.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
Honesty with ourselves & others gets us sober, but it is tolerance that keeps us that way.
~ Bill W.
The public want honesty from their politicians. Not showy gimmicks.
~ Theresa May
To sin is a human business, to justify sins is a devilish business.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Be sure to live up to your reputation for honesty and goodness, because many souls who believe you to be honest and good have placed themselves in your hands.
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
Intellectual honesty consists in stating the precise conditions under which one will give up one's belief.
~ Imre Lakatos
A man can build a staunch reputation for honesty by admitting he was in error, especially when he gets caught at it.
~ Robert Ruark
An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
~ Alexander Pope
Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product.
~ Ed McMahon
One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
Honesty is the fastest way to prevent a mistake from turning into a failure.
~ James Altucher
Honesty is an active verb, not a passive noun. Go out of your way to be truthful, beginning with the things that you say to yourself.
~ Joe Tye