Quotes About Accountability

What have you gotten me into?" I hissed to him. "Me? What have you gotten yourself into? Couldn't I have just picked you up at the police station for underage drinking, like most fathers?

Tu no fallaste, porque "fallar" implica que tú en realidad hubieses hecho algo.

35. Romans 14:10b, 12

Since we all have blind spots, you may need to ask a third party to help you evaluate your own actions before meeting with the person with whom you have a conflict. Also ask God to show you how much of the problem is your fault. Ask, "Am I the problem? Am I being unrealistic, insensitive, or too sensitive?" The Bible says, "If we claim that we're free of sin, we're only fooling ourselves." 19

Research shows that people getting healthy together lose twice as much weight as those who do it alone.

James said, "Anyone who knows the right thing to do, but does not do it, is sinning.

Servants think like stewards, not owners.

Everything we enjoy is to be treated as a trust that God has placed in our hands. The Bible says, "What do you have that God hasn't given you? And if all you have is from God, why boast as though you have accomplished something on your own?

We often bring problems on ourselves by our own faulty decisions, poor choices, bad judgments, and sins.

Chegará o dia em que você estará diante de Deus, e ele fará uma auditoria em sua vida — um exame final, antes que você ingresse na eternidade. A Bíblia diz: "Lembrem-se: cada um de nós comparecerá diante do tribunal de Deus [...]. Sim, cada um de nós terá de prestar contas de si mesmo a Deus".

Segunda: "O que você fez com o que eu lhe dei?".

Los líderes aceptan la culpa; los perdedores se la pasan a otro.

From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded; and from the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked.

We are Code Jiminy.

You want to feel sorry for him, but he was his own undoing.

Boldt glanced up to check the sharpshooter: The man had changed positions, and now hid behind the chimney where it would be easier to steady a rifle barrel. It occurred to Boldt that in the next few minutes they might kill a man—might get several more killed if they were not careful. For what? To appease the legal process?

Is she the only one at fault? For though she's spoiled, and dreadfully so, A girl can't spoil herself, you know. Who spoiled her, then? Ah, who indeed? Who pandered to her every need? Who turned her into such a brat? Who are the culprits? Who did that? Alas! You needn't look so far To find out who these sinners are. They are (and this is very sad) Her loving parents, MUM and DAD. And that is why we're glad they fell Into the garbage chute as well.

Get up at once, you lazy little beast!

Why have the writings of the prophets endured? Because they fearlessly speak truth to power. They call out the injustice and oppression of the system gone wrong. They hold those in leadership accountable for the decisions they make.

Under what circumstances is it moral for a group to do that which is not moral for a member of that group to do alone?

and he learned that when Johnson gave an assignment, no excuses were accepted. "He used to say, 'I want only can do people.' That was one of his favorite expressions. 'I only want can do people around. I don't want anybody who tells me that they can't do something.' 

A surprising number of representatives," the Saturday Evening Post reported, "knew his hat and coat, when it hangs on its accustomed peg in the House restaurant"—a discreet reference to the fact that many Congressmen checked to see that he was present before they entered the restaurant, lest they be forced to pay for their meals themselves.

Debates educated a nation. That educative function had atrophied during decades of making decisions behind closed doors.

I will accept any rules that you feel necessary to your freedom. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.