Quotes About Accountability

Just do it better yourself and don't waste any time criticizing others or the past! This, in fact, purifies your own commitment and motivation.

The most effective organizations, I am told, have both a "good boss" and a "bad boss," who work closely together. One holds us strongly, while the other speaks hard truth to us and sets clear goals and limits for us.

We recognized hierarchical or vertical accountability but almost no lateral accountability to one another—as Jesus hoped for the world when he prayed that we "all might be one" (John 17:21). A corporate reading of the Gospel gives hope and justice to history, but less control over individuals, which is probably why clergy who do the preaching don't like it too much and thus don't preach it too much.

He'd imagined the world would be a better place when it was rid of Big Jim Sullivan, but it had remained pretty much the same place, with just one less person to blame things on.

Possibilitas tua mensura tua'(What is possible to you is what you will be measured by).

You know, in this job we really need someone who is responsible." The man thinks for a moment, then replies, "I am perfect for you. In my last job lots of things went badly wrong, and they always said that I was responsible.

Of all things, men do not like to feel that they are guilty of wrong, and if you make them feel guilt, they will try desperately to justify it on any grounds; but, failing that, and seeing no immediate solution that will set things right without too much cost to their lives and property, they will kill that which evoked in them, the condemning sense of guilt.

you can never predict how you will behave when you stand before the tower of vengeance you have erected.

If a good man does nothing when confronted with a moral wrong, what is lost?

Percy, lesser beings do many horrible things in the name of the gods. That does not mean we gods approve. The way our sons and daughters act in our names... well, it usually says more about THEM than it does about us.

Complaining of unfairness is like assigning blame, Percy Jackson. It does no one any good.

You can't just abandon your family because they did something horrible. You've done horrible things to them too.

My point, Jason said, is that blaming each other isn't going to solve anything. That's how the Romans and the Greeks got divided in the first place.

Don't blame me for you robbing the king's treasury! I snarled. You are here because you messed up. I prayed to you! Well, perhaps you didn't pray for the right thing at the right time! I yelled. Pray for wisdom before you do something stupid! Don't pray for me to bail you out after you followed your worst instincts!

The more God gives you, the more responsible he expects you to be.

If you're losing the battle against a persistent bad habit, an addiction, or a temptation, and you're stuck in a repeating cycle of good intention-failure-guilt, you will not get better on your own! You need the help of other people. Some temptations are only overcome with the help of a partner who prays for you, encourages you, and holds you accountable.

Death is not your termination but your transition into eternity, so there are eternal consequences to everything you do on earth. Every act of our lives strikes some chord that will vibrate in eternity.

Our culture says, "If you don't own it, you won't take care of it." But Christians live by a higher standard: "Because God owns it, I must take the best care of it that I can." The Bible says, "Those who are trusted with something valuable must show they are worthy of that trust.

This action step should be personal (involving you), practical (something you can do), and provable (with a deadline to do it).

Knowledge increases responsibility.

Life is a test and a trust, and the more God gives you, the more responsible he expects you to be.

Second, "What did you do with what I gave you?" What did you do with your life — all the gifts, talents, opportunities, energy, relationships, and resources God gave you? Did you spend them on yourself, or did you use them for the purposes God made you for?

She could understand why someone might want to kill a queue jumper. If it had been up to her she would have summarily executed a great many people by now—people who dropped litter in the street, for example, they would certainly think twice about the discarded sweet wrapper if it resulted in being strung up from the nearest lamppost.

Better he learns now that if you mess with people, you might get messed with in return.