Quotes about Accountability
Win without boasting, lose without excuses - internalize your failures and externalize your victories.
— H Jackson Brown, Jr.
As ever in my great Taskmaster's eye.
— John Milton
Accuse not nature, she hath done her part; Do thou but thine.
— John Milton
Democracy is like a tamborine - not everyone can be trusted with it.
— John Oliver
Ignatius, when he heard the clock strike, would say, "Now I have another hour to answer for." (Eph. 5:16)
— John Piper
Don't make peace with the sin in your life.
— John Piper
Nothing sobers a wandering philosophical imagination like the thought of having a wife and children to support.
— John Piper
Whatever the law says it speaks to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and the whole world may be held accountable to God" (Rom. 3:9—10, 19).
— John Piper
Come to the end of your life—your one and only precious, God-given life—and let the last great work of your life, before you give an account to your Creator, be this: playing softball and collecting shells. Picture them before Christ at the great day of judgment: "Look, Lord. See my shells." That is a tragedy.
— John Piper
One of the great uses of Twitter and Facebook will be to prove at the Last Day that prayerlessness was not from lack of time.
— John Piper
As one instance of this, be always ready to own any fault you have been in. If you have at any time thought, spoken, or acted wrong, be not backward to acknowledge it. Never dream that this will hurt the cause of God; no, it will further it. Be therefore open and frank when you are taxed with anything; do not seek either to evade or disguise it; but let it appear just as it is, and you will thereby not hinder but adorn the Gospel.
— John Wesley
Never make excuses. Your friends don't need them and your foes won't believe them.
— John Wooden