Quotes about Accountability

Wrong behavior carries with it the seeds of its own retribution.

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.

Good executives never put off until tomorrow what they can get someone else to do today.

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.

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.

I have nothing in common with lazy people who blame others for their lack of success.

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.

Choosing to take responsibility for ourselves and for the consequences our choices create looks like hard work, but it really sets us free.

Promise to think only the best, to work only for the best, and to expect only the best from yourself and others.

The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.

A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility.

Sin and accountability aren't popular messages. Yet being trendy and well liked is not the point. We're here to carry out the work and mission of God, even when doing so is uncomfortable.