Quotes About Accountability

The problem was I always took the blame. But he was wrong. But I thought me taking the blame could fix it.

You can't keep snakes in your backyard and expect them only to bite your neighbors. You know, eventually those snakes are going to turn on whoever has them in the backyard.

When words lose their meaning and their capacity to bind those who use them, neither democracy nor the rule of law can long survive.

It's not God who doesn't care, it's us

Sports teach us the value of facing yourself and others honestly. You can only grow if you let go of denial and embrace what is real and true.

When truth and honesty is absent in the nation, it relates not just to the politicians.

One of the secrets a nation can unlock to have material wealth is, having a leader who will take an uncompromising stand to establish truth and honesty as a rule of building the nation

Honesty has a power that very few people can handle

There's nothing more powerful in "Your Moment of Truth" than people owning their truth, their part in a situation.

Anyone can find the dirt on someone, but very few can wipe it from their own shoes.

If I'm not leading by example, then I'm not doing the right thing. And I want to always do the right thing.

We're not going to have the America that we want until we elect leaders who are going to tell the truth - not most days, but every day.

Freedom is not the ability to do anything we want, whenever we want. Rather, FREEDOM is the ability to live responsibly the truth of our relationship with God and with one another.

If [Donald Trump] wants to do good things, let's see it. Let him do it. I can't stop him from doing good things.

Value those colleagues who tell you the truth, not just what you want to hear.

I want you to take a good, hard look at me, America, because this is exactly what you've got coming.

You can rise above it. This country gives you opportunity if you want to take it, so don't blame your environment. I look down on people who use their environment as a crutch.

When are we going to stop making excuses for the terrorists and saying that somebody is making them do it? No, these are simply evil people who want to kill.

Most of us know perfectly well what we ought to do; our trouble is that we do not want to do it.

If you want to become healthy, you have to surround yourself with a group of people that are getting healthy and you have to be connected to a community that is doing what you want to do.

Some people are desperately looking for scapegoats, they just don't want to see the truth!

Do what you want as long as its paying off for you. But once its become a liability, then something is wrong and you better find out what it is.

Give respect before you expect it. Treat people the way you want to be treated. Remember the mission. Set the example. Keep going.

Every believer is a witness whether he wants to be or not.