Quotes about Accountability
If there's one thing I've learned over the years, it's that you've got no say in what other people do with their lives. Everyone makes their own choices, good or bad.
— Francine Rivers
The appeal was so often the same: Make me comfortable so I can go on doing whatever I want to do. They wanted sin without consequences.
— Francine Rivers
He will forgive you, but he won't remove the consequences... We must learn to obey
— Francine Rivers
Sometimes you have to tell the truth, no matter how hard it is. Even when it doesn't change anything. People seem to make the same mistakes over and over again.
— Francine Rivers
I cannot lie to you any more than I could lie to myself," Paul said. "I know this. Every man should have such an auditor.
— Frank Herbert
Leaders made mistakes. And those mistakes, amplified by the numbers who followed without questioning, moved inevitably toward great disasters.
— Frank Herbert
The problem with leadership is that leaders are human beings. And when they make mistakes, their mistakes are amplified by the numbers who follow without question.
— Frank Herbert
A bad administrator is more concerned with reports than with decisions. He wants the hard record which he can display as an excuse for his errors." "And good administrators?
— Frank Herbert
Who shall guard the guardians? Who shall see that the guardians commit no offenses?
— Frank Herbert
Good administrators make immediate choices." "Acceptable choices?" "They usually can be made to work. A bad administrator, on the other hand, hesitates, diddles around, asks for committees, for research and reports. Eventually, he acts in ways which create serious problems.
— Frank Herbert
a man must permit his deeds and his words to agree. When your actions describe a system of evil consequences, you should be judged by those con sequences and not by your explanations.
— Frank Herbert
Whoever commits atrocity also commits those future atrocities thus bred.
— Frank Herbert