Quotes about Accountability

The ultimate step in taking responsibility is making sure our actions line up with our words.

Our actions are our own; their consequences belong to Heaven.

If our feelings control our actions, it is because we have abdicated our responsibility and empowered them to do so.

One of the most amazing things Jesus said is that at the judgment seat, preachers are going to say 'I cast out devils, and Jesus will say 'I never knew you.

But the only possible guarantee of the future is responsible behavior in the present.

And I told him that a man's life is always dealing with permanence—that the most dangerous kind of irresponsibility is to think of your doings as temporary.

trouble with this is that a proper concern for nature and our use of nature must be practiced, not by our proxy-holders, but by ourselves

A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.

Father said it used to be a gentleman was known by his books, nowadays he is known by the ones he has not returned.

the idea (not mine: your great-grandfather's) being that even at eleven a man should already have behind him one year of paying for, assuming responsibility for, the space he occupied, the room he took up, in the world's (Jefferson, Mississippi's, anyway) economy.

It is inevitable that any one who can borrow freely to cover errors of management will borrow rather than correct the errors.

Great leaders don't make excuses. They make things better. They are not unrealistic or blind to the difficulties they face. They simply are not discouraged by them. They never lose confidence that the problems can be solved. They maintain a positive attitude. Great leaders don't blame their people for not being where they ought to be; they take their people from where they are to where they need to be. Great leaders never lose faith that this is possible.