Quotes about Accountability

When I give talks like the one I'm going to give at the Changing Advertising Summit, one of the points I often make to the audience is that I'm not one of those speakers who stands in front of the audience and pontificates - everything I talk about I'm actually doing myself. I'm living it.

The problem with sin is that, if you have a conscience, you pay whether you're caught or not. Charles James's Diary

Research shows that people getting healthy together lose twice as much weight as those who do it alone.

James said, "Anyone who knows the right thing to do, but does not do it, is sinning.

Servants think like stewards, not owners.

Everything we enjoy is to be treated as a trust that God has placed in our hands. The Bible says, "What do you have that God hasn't given you? And if all you have is from God, why boast as though you have accomplished something on your own?

We often bring problems on ourselves by our own faulty decisions, poor choices, bad judgments, and sins.

From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded; and from the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked.

Why have the writings of the prophets endured? Because they fearlessly speak truth to power. They call out the injustice and oppression of the system gone wrong. They hold those in leadership accountable for the decisions they make.

Your life today is the sum total of your choices. So if you're not happy with it, look back at your choices and start making different ones. Even if you are struck by lighting and injured, you made choices that led you to that spot at a particular time - and you get to choose how you feel about it afterward.

Until you stop wishing things were different, accept the way they are, and take up the sole responsibility of doing something about it, nothing will change.

I didn't think about its being wrong to go in and try on the brooch; but I see now that it was and I'll never do it again. That's one good thing about me. I never do the same naughty thing twice