Quotes About Accountability

The population want to enjoy the wealth of the nation and know how their natural resources are being dealt with.

The quick fix to betrayal is to understand your people, the environment you currently live in, and the timing. Wrong move and you have no one to blame but yourself.

There is no doubt that corruption is the first ingredient of poverty and suffering in any environment.

Those who continue to pretend they had no choice, they are simply saying that they are still mentally immature to make their own decisions in life.

We must not, at any cost, behave like little children who are ready to take credit for good deeds but run away wherever evil ones appear.

What is the use of having a king who reigns but does not rule the population?

You are responsible for your actions and sins, in the same manner as you believe that you are responsible for your own life.

You cannot keep blaming the rich people for all of your miseries if you are not willing to act in the first place.

You cannot live your whole life nor base it on the assumption that someone else is going to carry your responsibilities at the finish line.

You must be ready to take all your responsibilities upon your head, instead of relying upon someone else to do all the dirty work for you.

You must be willing to pay the price of being called an "adult". Stop and reflect upon your life.

Your past, present and future sins will be placed upon your shoulders and not on the shoulders of the man who left us long ago.

If we hope to become effective and successful in life, ministry, and especially marriage, we have to learn to be good managers. Stewardship means being accountable to God for every resource under our care. Effective managers do more than simply keep things running; they add value to everything they have responsibility over. Under a good manager, resources will appreciate in value.

If anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself. Each one should test his own actions. Then he can take pride in himself, without comparing himself to somebody else, for each one should carry his own load [responsibility] (Galatians 6:3-5).

Remember that no matter how great a leader you become, you could lose everything that you've gained due to a lack of character.

Am I, in any way, violating the trust of those who have placed their faith in me? What impact am I having on those who are influenced or affected by my behavior?

our personal behavior often has consequences for others.

No one should think he is too smart or too safe to avoid consequences of a lack of character.

What would George Washington—whom the Senate declared didn't need its approval to dismiss Senate-confirmed executive-branch officers, since he alone was responsible to the voters for their actions—have to say about the civil service rules and union protections that make the whippersnappers so difficult, and often impossible, to fire? Even Franklin Roosevelt thought bureaucrat unions an absurdity.41

But since such an institution is made up of imperfect human beings with the same unruly passions as anyone else, "In framing a government of men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: You must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself."3

Todos sabemos lo que debemos hacer (detalle más o detalle menos), pero todos nos las ingeniamos, al menos parte del tiempo, para no hacerlo.

Financial crashes happen precisely because the people who remember the last one have either died or retired and thus are no longer around, with memories and character formed by that previous experience, to warn people not to be irresponsible.

those who invoke YHWH as the judge of all must themselves live in the light of that coming judgment.

In following this vocation, we will thereby be doing what Jesus told his followers in John 16: in the power of the Spirit, we will be holding the world to account. Just as the Jesus-followers were showing the officials of the Roman empire that there was a different way to run society, so there will be signs of God's kingdom that can emerge from the creative, healing, restorative work of church members today.