Quotes About Accountability

Let each man be judged by his deeds, I have paid my price to live with myself on the terms that I willed.

I have the greatest aversion to being a candidate on a ticket with a man whose record as an upright public man is to be in question--to be defended from the beginning to the end.

All is in the hands of man. Therefore wash them often.

I am sure that, after all, any man in my place should set a positive example for other people.

If we hold the married man accountable for finances gone legally awry, then the married woman should be held accountable for children who go awry.

Every man has a bag hanging before him, in which he puts his neighbour's faults, and another behind him in which he stows his own.

He [man] knows that when he is not what he ought to be; when he does what he ought not to do; or omits what he ought to do, he is chargeable with sin

The man that brings ant-infested faggots into his hut should not grumble when lizards begin to pay him a visit.

I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.

Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

Responsibiliti es gravitate to the man who can shoulder them and the power to him who knows how

It's nine o'clock on Sunday night/Do you know where your man is?

There is scarcely any man sufficiently clever to appreciate all the evil he does.

Few men know all the ill they do.

The rights which a man arrogates to himself are relative to the duties which he sets himself, and to the tasks which he feels capable of performing.

The great secret of good management is to be more alert to prevent a man's going wrong than eager to punish him for it.

Every one disguising the truth from a man who has a right to the truth is wrong, and ought not to be encouraged.

The whole Constitution has been erected upon the assumption that the King not only is capable of doing wrong but is more likely to do wrong than other men if he is given the chance.

Don't become me. Don't let her down like I did. You only deserve what you make yourself worthy of. Do what I couldn't. Be a man.

Men are free to decide their own moral choices, but they are also under the necessity to account to God for those choices.

Every man is responsible only for his own acts. The sons do not inherit the sins of the fathers. But can we say: that was long ago, they were different?

The world asks, "What does a man own?"; Christ asks, "How does he use it?"

The misdeeds of ordinary men can be buried with them, and their lives described in half-truths that are really half-lies. But not a public man. Particularly not this one.

To become a man is to be responsible; to be ashamed of miseries that you did not cause.