Quotes About Accountability

When everything is said and done, God isn't going to say, "Well said," "Well thought," or "Well planned." There is one measuring stick: "Well done, good and faithful servant!"5

When your life is over, the world will ask you only one question: 'Did you do what you were supposed to do?'" That's not just a good question. That's the question... It cannot be answered with words. It must be answered with your life.

Sixth, tough conversations get tougher the longer you wait. I tend to avoid conflict, but I've come to realize that I'm not doing anybody any favors when I do so.

It's not my name that's at stake.

When we apologize and confess to others, we communicate that we do not think we are superior, while we also communicate that there are standards by which we are seeking to live.

Ultimately, discipling involves living out the whole Christian life before others.

Taking responsibility means acknowledging and accepting, at the deepest part of your identity, that you—not the market—are completely responsible for your success or failure as a trader.

WILL'S RULES FOR LIVING #8: DO THE RIGHT THING, ALWAYS, AND RISK THE CONSEQUENCES.

when they fail at sports or school or life, it's not because they didn't work hard enough or they're just not smart enough or good enough. No, they're special, so it's got to be someone else's fault. They didn't fail. Someone made them fail.

How could he face his wife as a loser?

Those who have been coddled often develop a form of crazy in which they tell themselves, "Someone will do things for me." Consequently, they feel entitled to success and happiness without having to earn it.

Rehabilitation: Demonstrate through your actions that you've learned your lesson.

Making excuses for chronic promise-breakers is invariably self-defeating.

I strongly recommend the Reverse Play if you're dealing with someone who has the skills and ability to do a job, but isn't giving 100 percent.

If you can't find an actual partner or monitor, try conjuring the image of a loving parent, grandparent, friend or teacher—someone you would not want to disappoint, and whom you can imagine saying, "Good work, you're doing great!" when you finally do what you've been avoiding. Even if only imagined, the support of another person can be the key to getting done what you would otherwise put off.

Even with a great vision, people lose their enthusiasm and fail to accomplish what they're capable of doing if their leaders are dropping the ball.

You have been in politics long enough to know that no man in public office owes the public anything.

The government has incredible powers at its disposal, and when it abuses those powers, someone has to stand up.

Blame the promoter, not me. Damn you!

One key problem with private prisons is that private prison profiteers are harder to hold accountable for human rights violations and inhumane conditions.

The skeptic often retorts that the "criminally-minded" regularly refuse to admit their own wrongdoing and responsibility. But this is a callous and self-justifying skepticism that overlooks just how easy it is to fall down the road to prison as a result of others' unfair practices, vicious action, or because of the vicissitudes of navigating corporate-driven dispossession, poverty, and racism.

Lynching's legacy, though, is also evident today in law enforcement's freedom from accountability in the shooting of black and other youth of color, thus displaying a de facto, and often actual, legalization of white supremacist killing of black life.

The best leaders don't blame others. They own their actions and their outcomes.

When leaders lead well, not everyone is going to be happy.