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Quotes About Accountability

A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.
~ Johann Gottlieb Fichte
I am a man of my word.
~ Augustus
It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.
~ Zelda Fitzgerald
Where one man reads the Bible, a hundred read you and me.
~ Dwight L. Moody
Men like Hitler and Stalin and their immediate lieutenants cannot plead in defence of their actions that these were justified by the accepted values of that time.
~ Douglas Hurd
For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.
~ Luke the Evangelist
Every man's happiness is his own responsibility.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Good men are bound by conscience and liberated by accountability.
~ Wes Fesler
Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.
~ Livy
No man is hurt but by himself.
~ Diogenes
Kill one man, and you are murderer.
~ Jean Rostand
The genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it could punish the man without punishing the office.
~ Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
The world is upside down, if you can keep your head while everyone around you is losing theirs and blaming it on you, then you will be a man, my son. One of the greatest lines ever written.
~ Michael Savage
There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.
~ Samuel Beckett
Men are committing the rapes. Let them be put under curfew.
~ Golda Meir
A man is known by his conduct to his wife, to his family, and to those under him.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
If there be a man before me who says that the wrath of God is too heavy a punishment for his little sin, I ask him, if the sin be little, why does he not give it up?
~ Charles Spurgeon
After all, it's not where a man lands that marks his punishment. Its how far he falls.
~ Tip O'Neill
A man is judged by the company he keeps, and a company is judged by the men it keeps, and the people of Democratic nations are judged by the type and caliber of officers they elect.
~ William J. H. Boetcker
No man will say, "There is no God" 'till he is so hardened in sin that it has become his interest that there should be none to call him to account.
~ Matthew Henry
I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.
~ Nathanael Emmons
The only thing to do when a man is wrong is to be right by ceasing to be wrong.
~ Jesse Lauriston Livermore
At the day of Doom men shall be judged according to their fruits. It will not be said then, did you believe? But, were you doers or talkers only?
~ John Bunyan
Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.
~ John Steinbeck