Quotes about Accountability

We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That's not leadership. That's not going to happen.

I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.

God doesn't need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves.

When you play quarterback and the offense doesn't play well, a lot of that is because of the quarterback. You're going to receive the criticism.

If we're going to ask our players to be coachable, we've got to be coachable as coaches as well. That displays an ownership and an accountability that we try to all have and makes the players more receptive to the messages we try to implement.

How would you like a job where when you made a mistake, a big red light goes on and 18,000 people boo?

A great nation does not hide its history. It faces its flaws and corrects them.

Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming individuals in important jobs.

Compassion, together with contractual responsibility for one's workforce, is a mark of a top employer.

You can't blame things for being dark if the light bulbs aren't working. So we're complaining about the darkness when the bulbs aren't working, and the Bible says that we are the light of the world.

The time has come for all evangelists to practice full financial disclosure. The world is watching how we walk and how we talk. We must have the highest standards of morality, ethics and integrity if we are to continue to have influence.

Many in our day climb under the moral shade of Matthew 7:1 to take the supposed high road in saying, "I'm not the judge." Those who take this supposed high road may be missing the whole point of Jesus' words: sin is sin, and one cannot follow Jesus and turn a blind eye to sin. What Jesus is calling us to here is not the absence of moral discernment.