Quotes about Accountability
Power always brings with it responsibility.
— Theodore Roosevelt
God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.
— St. Augustine
See that you do not use the trick of prayer to cover up what you know you ought to do.
— Oswald Chambers
All broken relationships can be traced back to broken agreements
— Stephen Covey
We cannot put a noose around another man's neck without first hanging ourselves.
— Henry David Thoreau
You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know.
— William Wilberforce
You can choose to look the other way but never again can you say that you never knew.
— William Wilberforce
Having seen all this you can choose to look the other way, but you can never say again, 'I did not know.
— William Wilberforce
What we believe determines how we live. Men who sincerely believed that what they were doing was right have perpetrated many of the most hideous crimes against humanity.
— William Wilberforce
The instructive admonitions, "give an account of thy stewardship,"—"occupy till I come;" are forgotten. Thus the generous and wakeful spirit of Christian Benevolence, seeking and finding every where occasions for its exercise, is exploded, and a system of decent selfishness is avowedly established in its stead; a system scarcely more to be abjured for its impiety, than to be abhorred for its cold insensibility to the opportunities of diffusing happiness.
— William Wilberforce
The Bible specifically states that sin cannot be blamed on how God made us. "When tempted, no one should say 'God is tempting me' " (Jas. 1:13). God wants us to come to terms with our sin and embrace the solution He has provided that can save us from judgment.
— William Wilberforce
Responsibility is the price of greatness.
— Winston Churchill