Quotes About Accountability

When a person earns money, it makes sense if he spends it himself. It's a shame when a person earns money, and some strange funds spend it.

We shouldn't be encouraging people to set up Cayman Island funds.

I attribute my success to this:—I never gave or took an excuse.

Let whoever is in charge keep this simple question in her head (not, how can I always do this right thing myself, but) how can I provide for this right thing to be always done?

To be in charge is certainly not only to carry out the proper measures yourself but to see that every one else does so too; to see that no one either willfully or ignorantly thwarts or prevents such measures. It is neither to do everything yourself nor to appoint a number of people to each duty, but to ensure that each does that duty to which he is appointed.

I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.

So long as I know what's expected of me, I can manage.

The eyes of someone you kill are immortal, if they face you at the fatal instant. They have a terrible black color. They shake you more than the streams of blood and the death rattles, even in a great turmoil of dying. The eyes of the killed, for the killer, are his calamity if he looks into them. They are the blame of the person he kills.

If there's one thing I've learned over the years, it's that you've got no say in what other people do with their lives. Everyone makes their own choices, good or bad.

The appeal was so often the same: Make me comfortable so I can go on doing whatever I want to do. They wanted sin without consequences.

He will forgive you, but he won't remove the consequences... We must learn to obey

Sometimes you have to tell the truth, no matter how hard it is. Even when it doesn't change anything. People seem to make the same mistakes over and over again.

She had heard it was easy to blame others for one's own failures. But that wasn't exactly accurate. It was easy to blame herself for what had happened--hard to live with it. [...] It was hard to blame them, harder still to live with the need to blame them.

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I feel an obligation toward God to be as honest as I can. I'm human, sir, and I'll admit the Truth can be painful at times, and even a little elusive, but... as best as I can, I must speak the Truth and address things as they are. I don't feel I have any right to take the Truth and cut it up, rearrange it, select what I want and delete what I want just so it'll align with my politics or my Accounting Department. - John Barrett Jr.

The test of a man isn't what you think he'll do. It's what he actually does.

When you imagine mistakes, there can be no self-defense.

Since every individual is accountable ultimately to the self, the formation of that self demands our utmost care and attention.

Who asks for justice? We make our own justice.

How would we flood village and city with our information? The people must learn how well I govern them. How would they know if we didn't tell them?

I cannot lie to you any more than I could lie to myself," Paul said. "I know this. Every man should have such an auditor.

The difference between a good administrator and a bad one is about five heartbeats. Good administrators make immediate choices.

But the test of a man isn't what you think he'll do. It's what he actually does.

Leaders made mistakes. And those mistakes, amplified by the numbers who followed without questioning, moved inevitably toward great disasters.