Quotes About Accountability

To reverence the impersonal creation instead of the personal God who created us is a perversion designed for escaping moral accountability to the Creator. God indicts those who worship the creation instead of its Creator (Rom 1:18-23); and warns of the corruption of morals and behavior which results.

ISHOULD PROBABLY thank the mainstream media. If it weren't for their abject failure to do their jobs, you'd have no idea who I was.

Play the victim card to attain power, then, once you have it, use it to shield yourself from legitimate criticism.

most stress they experience comes from inappropriately managed commitments they make or accept.

One missed e-mail, untracked commitment, or decision avoided can have hugely magnified consequences.

Complete the projects you begin, fulfill the commitments you have made, live up to your promises—then both your subconscious and conscious selves can have success, which leads to a feeling of fulfillment, worthiness and oneness. —John-Roger

If you had the freedom to decide what to do, you also had the responsibility to make good choices, given your priorities. What

most of the stress people experience comes from inappropriately managed commitments they make or accept.

Anyone with the need to be accountable to deal with more than what he or she can complete in the moment has the opportunity to do so more easily and elegantly than in the mind.

the calendar should be sacred territory. If you write something there, it must get done that day or not at all.

If the next action is not yours, you must nevertheless clarify whose it is (this is a primary use of the Waiting For action list). In a group-planning situation, it isn't necessary for everyone to know what the next step is on every part of the project. Often all that's required is to allocate responsibility for parts of the project to the appropriate persons and leave it up to them to identify next actions on their particular pieces.

Your health doesn't just happen; it's not something that takes care of itself as you go through life. You can't leave your health in someone else's hands, and the same goes for your wealth. They're both completely in your hands.

Maybe I shot the sheriff and the deputy.

Everyone has choices. You make them and then you live with the consequences.

People need to have faith in their government." Decker said, "Well, maybe the government might want to consider earning that faith.

Me being arrested would

really could sell the U.S. military $12,000 toilets and $9,000 hammers and actually get away with it under a mountain of legal trickery and congressional hearing mumbo-jumbo.

Busy day and I'm not getting any younger. And Irene Cramer's not getting any older. And somebody has to answer for that.

But then again, our life is what we make it, right? Bad choices. You can't blame others for that.

Still, he was your father." "Actually, in my mind at least, he had lost that title. It's not supposed to be simply granted, Puller, because a sperm happened to hit an egg. You have to earn it. He chose not

presidents had to make

Just who has imposed on the suffering human race poison gas, barbed wire, high explosives, experiments in eugenics, the formula for zyklon b, heavy artillery, pseudo-scientific justifications for mass murder, cluster bombs, attack submarines, napalm, intercontinental missiles , military space platforms and nuclear weapons? If memory serves it was not the Vatican.

Just who has imposed on the suffering human race poison gas, barbed wire, high explosives, experiments in eugenics, the formula for Zyklon B, heavy artillery, pseudo-scientific justifications for mass murder, cluster bombs, attack submarines, napalm, intercontinental ballistic missiles, military space platforms, and nuclear weapons? If memory serves, it was not the Vatican.

As a moral matter, individuals must be free to make their own decisions and to succeed or fail according to their own choices. As a practical matter, as Frum points out, when we shield people from the consequences of their actions, we get a society characterized not by thrift, sobriety, diligence, self-reliance, and prudence but by profligacy, intemperance, indolence, dependency, and indifference to consequences.