Quotes About Accountability

My job is to find the politicians and the presidents and the pompous people who are telling other people how to live, powerful, visible creatures and ... go at them.

It turns out that speeding irresponsibly in a large truck, placing personal wealth ahead of the welfare of others, is one of the greatest sins in the Universe....

But until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday," that person cannot say, "I choose otherwise.

Without someone speaking into your life and keeping you on track with the things you believe, you have a tendency to drift into habitual sin- and you recognize this about yourself.

YOU CANNOT CHANGE WHAT YOU DO NOT CONFRONT.

Is there something that those who are closest to you have been trying to tell you? Maybe you have an addiction, a hang-up, a weakness, a blind spot. If more than one person who loves you has been trying to help you see something that needs to change, maybe it's time to listen.

Since we can't change what we can't identify, ask God to show you any areas of your life that may be harmful to you, offensive to the people around you, or displeasing to God himself.

This is "binary thinking." You are either making the right choices you have set yourself up to make or you are not. Period.

Accountability is not easy, and it doesn't come naturally. But in the long run it's incredibly necessary, and when you do it right, it's nothing but good.

Accountability requires the internal strength of honesty. We have to be strong enough to hear the honest questions and answer them honestly. We have to be strong enough to ask honest questions and hear honest answers, reacting appropriately and with grace and respect. Without honesty, there is no accountability, pure and simple.

None of us can help you any more than you can help yourself—have you never thought that this

I wondered about all the individuals wandering around out there who were in serious need of the administration of a dreadful ass-kicking and weren't likely to get it.

That's the problem with guilt, it's a two-way street; our children have to live with the things we do, and sometimes we have to live with their actions.

The important question to ask is why these bodies are allowed to exist. If a country such as Spain allowed a repressive body like the Inquisition to exist for four hundred years, it is not because the Inquisition forced itself on the Spanish nation. It is because the Spaniards allowed it to exist.

The only thing I hope I did was never put in question my love for the game, or my passion to be counted on when it mattered most.

Killing Japanese didn't bother me very much at that time... I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal.

When I see my staff take a step back because I've lost my cool about something food-related, I say never apologise for your standards. If someone doesn't meet them, then you should explain that and that you want it changed. I want my staff to be like that, too.

True patriotism, Jack believed, would have been for his fellow Americans to look inward after 9/11 and accept a little blame, admit the attacks had happened, in part, because of who they were in the world, not in spite of it.

High-performing people are good at staying almost exclusively focused on what they are responsible for and what they can do right here, right now.

If I was president of the Slime Committee, I'd make it easier to come clean about shit. If coming clean is what you're supposed to do, then it should be made more fucken accessible, I say.

When we're young we make our beds and when we're older we have to lie on them. I'd make myself a comfortable bed if I were you—straight and tidy with the blankets well tucked in at the foot—then it'll not come adrift when you lie in it. If a bed's not properly made at the start the blankets'll maybe fall off in the night and you'll wake up shivering

Whenever you look back and say, "If," you know you're in trouble. There's no such thing as "if." The only thing that counts is what really happened.

You want to know why we're the ones responsible?" Gunny asked. I looked up into a pair of wise eyes that had seen far more than mine. "Because there's nobody else," he said.

I feel like I owe it to the readers to try to pull back the veil and give them the honest version of what's going on. But it's not more fun. If Obama, as he does sometimes already, gets a little snippy with me about something I've written, you're thinking, 'Oh God, the president of the United States is already annoyed with me.'