Quotes about Accountability

There is nothing I value more in subordinates than their willingness to tell me I'm wrong, to challenge me, to sharpen my decision making. Surrounding yourself with sycophants and bootlickers is the surest route to failure.

Blame unto others only as you would first blame yourself.

If you could see the instructions that I gave Jerry to begin with, I'd be embarrassed.

Killing one person makes you a murderer. Killing a million people makes you a king. Killing them all makes you God.

Great power involves great responsibility

Rationalization begins with a look in the mirror.

We also need guides: spiritual friends, a spiritual director, or a spiritual accountability group that can function for us as a safe place to bear our souls.

The goal of spiritual direction is spiritual formation—the ever-increasing capacity to live a spiritual life from the heart. A spiritual life cannot be formed without discipline, practice, and accountability.

I wish my countrymen to consider, that whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can ever commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual, without having to pay the penalty for it. A government which deliberately enacts injustice, and persists in it, will at length ever become the laughing-stock of the world.

If you are cheated out of a single dollar by your neighbor, you do not rest satisfied with knowing that you are cheated, or with saying that you are cheated, or even with petitioning him to pay you your due; but you take effectual steps at once to obtain the full amount, and see that you are never cheated again.

It is truly enough said that a corporation has no conscience; but a corporation of conscientious men is a corporation with a conscience.

If you have a heart for living God's way, you will want to ensure that your life is answerable to him (Ps. 25:4-5).