Quotes About Accountability

Give your child a consequence that is meaningful to him or her.

Our calling in life really is this simple (although not therefore easy): We are to devote ourselves to working/building and keeping/protecting everything placed into our charge.

Alexander Maclaren writes: "This man, before he was four-and-twenty hours a disciple, had made another. Some of you have been disciples for as many years, and have never even tried to make one."3

We are not responsible for the outcome, but only for our faithful, loving witness.

Politicians should be changed regularly, like diapers, and for the same reason.

You can't get by on hope. It doesn't pay the bills and it doesn't save lives.

One of the logical consequences of monotheism is guilt.

The sense that just about anything goes with the collection of public revenues and the making of public expenditure has contributed mightily to the current malaise.

Resolution, like responsibility, is a product of ownership, and kids can't resolve a conflict until they figure out how they contributed to it.

Washington was well aware that in a representative government, a government of laws not of men, separating the man from the title was essential.

A servant's too often a negligent elf; if it's business of consequence, do it yourself!

Let him then have powers commensurate with his utmost possible need, only let him be held strictly responsible for the exercise of them. Any other course would be injustice as well as bad policy

No society can work unless its members feel responsibilities as well as rights.

Those who've marred their appearance in any way by their actions in life aren't forced to witness that marring. If they were, they'd become self-conscious and be unable to concentrate on improving themselves.

People are not punished for their deeds, but by them~

When I fume in the tollbooth line, I am not a good person to whom a bad thing is happening. I am a liar who is getting what he deserves.

By looting natural capital and hiding the costs. But the bill is coming, and we won't be able to pay.

For the bitch I was. For the attentive person I wasn't.

A policy of moving out and doing it, and asking forgiveness afterward, is much better than a policy of asking permission and having it denied.

It is an axiom of politics that if there are real problems that responsible people aren't addressing, irresponsible people will exploit them.

Now we are all sons of bitches.' 

Forgiveness is to let go of our hope for a different or better past." It is what it is, and such acceptance leads to great freedom, as long as there is also accountability and healing in the process.

A.A. is the only group I know that is willing and honest enough to just tell people up front, "You are damn selfish!" Or, "Until you get beyond your massive narcissism you are never going to grow up.

Organized religion is an accountability system that holds your feet to the fire long enough to know what the issues really are, who God might just be, and what your own limitations might also be.