Quotes about Accountability

He is not guilty who is not guilty of his own free will.

Let wickedness escape as it may at the bar, it never fails of doing justice upon itself; for every guilty person is his own hangman

We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

Sometimes folks ask this question about giving to beggars and panhandlers with suspicion, speculating that homeless folks will just use their money for drugs or alcohol, which happens sometimes. But we don't always ask what CEOs are doing with our money when we give it to their companies, and they may also be buying drugs or pornography (or yachts) with our money! In

The time has come to accept in our hearts and minds that with freedom comes responsibility.

What did you do with the time and talents i gave you? God's question.

I always judge people who spend a lot of time in public office say they care about things, if the day after they leave, they no longer talk about them, then I don't think they cared much about them.

Look at yourself before you pass judgment. Don't make someone else clean up your mess.

We talk to these folks because they potentially have the best answers, so I know whose ass to kick.

As much as Tim blamed himself during the next morning's postmortem, I recognized it as a systems failure

Our history has always been the sum total of the choices made and the actions taken by each individual man and woman. It has always been up to us.

If I say I will do something, I must do it. Otherwise, how will people know that my word is true?