Quotes about Accountability

So many people would like to have guidance from God because obviously, if you have a word from God, it's the best possible thing. But they don't relate that to life as a whole. Often they want guidance as a way of opting out of the responsibility of making decisions.

All our words and acts are passing in review before God.

No matter how many or how few people you have reporting to you, you must remember that as you climb higher in the ranks, your words will be taken as commands even if you're just thinking out loud.

I had three rules for my players: No profanity. Don't criticize a teammate. Never be late.

Banks need to think through their ethics very carefully, and many have done so. I don't know any bank that dismisses the concept of ethical banking.

An unstable pilot steers a leaking ship, and the blind is leading the blind straight to the pit. The ruler is like the ruled.

Hell is paved with priests' skulls.

There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.

There is such a thing as being too late. This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for vigorous and positive action.

And there is the point exactly, we are all the time blaming difficulties on to something else. Our real trouble is that we are too soft to solve the problem.

The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.

Please don't ask me to do that which I've just said I'm not going to do, because you're burning up time. The meter is running through the sand on you, and I am now filibustering.