Quotes About Accountability

These brass hats have one great advantage in their favor. If we listen to them, and do what they want us to do, none of us will be alive later to tell them that they were wrong.

When decisions on nuclear power stations and runways are delayed and the government dilly-dallies, people think they aren't important.

mistakes subject to so discerning and public a post?mortem as weather forecasters.

You have given me a great responsibility to stay close to you, to be worthy of you and to exemplify what you are.

Is it justice to make evil, and then punish for it?

And am I answerable that thoughtless and unprincipled men exist whose shades of contenance may resemble mine?

You don't ask of Justice; it asks of you." -Danny Rollings

If not me, who?" "Who? You're Condor, not an owl.

If you have to hang a man you could have put on a better trail, you aren't entitled to own a rope.

You don't attack the grunts of Vietnam you blame the theory behind the war. Nobody who fought in that war was at fault. It was the war itself that was at fault. It's the same thing with psychotherapy.

The capacity for growth depends on one's ability to internalize and to take personal responsibility. If we forever see our life as a problem caused by others, a problem to be "solved," then no change will occur.

Failing to act is action, and though there are a lot of people talking, they are not taking action.

Sweeping the sheds. Doing it properly. So no one else has to. Because no one looks after the All Blacks. The All Blacks look after themselves.

Leaders create leaders by passing on responsibility, creating ownership, accountability and trust.

In the last analysis, of course, an oath will encourage fidelity in office only to the degree that officeholders continue to believe that they cannot escape ultimate accountability for a breach of faith.

it is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the living God" after

How do you explain to yourself the casual manner in which you threw your life away?

If actions were always judged by their consequence, we'd spend half our lives making amends." -Luke Skywalker

Churches that do not discipline jeopardize the lives of those who, like Nadab and Abihu (Leviticus 10), disregard God's instructions as they approach him and risk being consumed by an outburst of his holiness (cf. 1 Cor. 11:27–32).

All he wanted or had ever wanted was someone who would take the responsibility and act." Grant, of course, was that someone. "He did not want to know what I proposed to do."7 Grant's account does not ring quite true. After all, the president had vetoed three of his suggestions several weeks earlier.

The body of Christ is about doing life together, and by doing life together sin is revealed.

When the people of God are not told the works of God, they lose the wonder of God, and everyone does that which is right in his or her own eyes.

Nothing worse than a man who makes excuses, blames others, and refuses responsibility for his own actions." No doubt there were real experiences that underlined the worthlessness of excuse makers for these men.

Watch out for the people who say that all is good between them and God but have no interest in being reconciled with the people whom their sin has injured.