Quotes about Accountability
If someone is bent on hurting herself, she'll find a way to do it. She was a grown woman; sooner or later, she was responsible for herself.
— Charles Martin
The crime of taxation is not in the taking of it, it's in the way that it's spent.
— Will Rogers
I'm only going to stand before God and give an account for my life, not for somebody else's life. If I have a bad attitude, then I need to say there's no point in me blaming you for what's wrong in my life.
— Joyce Meyer
Wrong behavior carries with it the seeds of its own retribution.
— Harold S. Kushner
It's hard to think seriously about grace until you understand that you've failed morally and will someday stand accountable before a holy God.
— Lee Strobel
Good executives never put off until tomorrow what they can get someone else to do today.
— John Maxwell
The enemy of human happiness as well as the cause of poverty and starvation is not the birth of children. It is the failure of people to do with the earth what God could teach them to do if only they would ask and then obey, for they are agents unto themselves.
— Henry B. Eyring
How could I get up there and say, 'People, we've got to do better,' when I was the poster child for everything that was wrong? I've always believed leaders don't ask others to do what they're unwilling to do.
— Mike Huckabee
I have nothing in common with lazy people who blame others for their lack of success.
— Kobe Bryant
You have been given your own work to do. Get to it right now, do your best at it, and don't be concerned with who is watching you. Create your own merit.
— Epictetus
Choosing to take responsibility for ourselves and for the consequences our choices create looks like hard work, but it really sets us free.
— Melody Beattie
Promise to think only the best, to work only for the best, and to expect only the best from yourself and others.
— John Wooden