Quotes about Accountability
"I tell you, you will not get out until you have paid the last penny."
— Luke 12:59
We are free to choose our actions, . . . but we are not free to choose the consequences of these actions.
— Stephen Covey
There are eternal consequences resulting from all our thoughts, words and actions, of which we take far too little account.
— JC Ryle
The ultimate step in taking responsibility is making sure our actions line up with our words.
— John Maxwell
Our actions are our own; their consequences belong to Heaven.
— St. Francis Of Assisi
If our feelings control our actions, it is because we have abdicated our responsibility and empowered them to do so.
— Stephen Covey
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.
— Leonard Ravenhill
But the only possible guarantee of the future is responsible behavior in the present.
— Wendell Berry
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.
— Wendell Berry
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
— Wendell Berry
A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
— William Faulkner
Father said it used to be a gentleman was known by his books, nowadays he is known by the ones he has not returned.
— William Faulkner