Quotes About Accountability

I assumed my first undivided responsibility.

Bè, naturalmente non è l'uomo adatto.... poiché l'uomo che ha un incarico di fiducia non è mai l'uomo adatto

If the defendant be a man of straw, who is to pay the costs?

Blame is easy. Taking responsibility is hard. Anger is easy. Self-control is hard.

Your Talents SCRIPTURE READING: LUKE 19:12– 27 KEY VERSE: LUKE 19:17

Algo de la preocupación también se arraiga en la obediencia. No hay sitio en las Escrituras en el que se nos dé licencia para ser irresponsables.

I've learned that our background and circumstances may have influenced who we are, but we are responsible for who we become.

30:20 — This is the way of an adulterous woman: she eats and wipes her mouth, and says, "I have done no wickedness." It's become a mantra in our society: "But I'm really a good person!" Unbelievers and believers alike often make this claim after they do what God's Word calls sin. But sin requires repentance, not self-justification or denial.

For all the folks whose job it was to be ready for [Hurricane] Katrina, but who weren't, from the Oval Office, right down the chain of command to the New Orleans police department, Wal-Mart was a vivid reproach.

They call this war a cloud over the land. But they made the weather and then they stand in the rain and say 'Shit, it's raining!

They say this war is a cloud over the land! But they make the weather and then they stand in the rain and say, 'Shit, it's raining!

The sins of others are filthy smelly dung; our own sins have the golden sparkle and aroma of a fine ale.

So runs the genealogy of many another sin: idleness is usually the grandfather of the crime, whatever the father might be.

Do not repeat anything you will not sign your name to.

Consequences are unpitying. Our deeds carry their terrible consequences, quite apart from any fluctuations that went before—consequences that are hardly ever confined to ourselves. And it is best to fix our minds on that certainty, instead of considering what may be the elements of excuse for us.

No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when we require him to obey it... Obedience to the law is demanded as a right, not asked as a favor.

Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.

As ye sew, so shall ye rip.

The United States Senate opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation.

Promise little and do much.

It's better by far to deliver more than you promise than to promise more than you can deliver.

Let every man sweep in front of his own door and the whole world will be clean.

Oh, duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does one's self.

When others, a man begins to blame He'll soon find himself alone, The same.