Quotes about Accountability

The most miserable man or woman is the one who knows what is right and does not do it.

Character is more than a man-to-his-God humility, for it involves transparency and accountability to others, not merely a private quest for purity.

Let no guilty man escape, if it can he avoided. . . . No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty.

Men fall in private long before they fall in public.

Where one man reads the Bible, a hundred read you and me.

Every man's happiness is his own responsibility.

Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.

If there be a man before me who says that the wrath of God is too heavy a punishment for his little sin, I ask him, if the sin be little, why does he not give it up?

At the day of Doom men shall be judged according to their fruits. It will not be said then, did you believe? But, were you doers or talkers only?

No man is hindered by another; he is only hindered by himself. No man suffers because of another; he suffers only because of himself.

Do you have secret meetings going on in your church? You are in trouble with God!

we ask the following questions before we listen to gossip: What is your reason for telling me this? Where did you get your information? Have you gone directly to the source? Have you personally checked out all the facts? Can I quote you if I check this out?2