Quotes about Accountability
So when God pulls down the curtain on the drama of the world's redemption, He will not ask what part we played, but only how well we played the role assigned to us.
- Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
- Victor Hugo
Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.
- Robert Frost
Action without a name, a 'who' attached to it, is meaningless.
- St. Jerome
Let it be henceforth proclaimed to the world that man's conscience was created free; that he is no longer accountable to his fellow man for his religious opinions, being responsible therefore only to his God.
- John Tyler
None of us have pure thoughts; we all live in glass houses.
- Mark Cuban
Remember how long you have been putting off these things, and how often you have received an opportunity from the gods, and yet do not use it.
- Marcus Aurelius
How ridiculous not to flee from one's own wickedness, which is possible, yet endeavour to flee from another's, which is not.
- Marcus Aurelius
He that sinneth, sinneth unto himself. He that is unjust, hurts himself, in that he makes himself worse than he was before. Not he only that committeth, but he also that omitteth something, is oftentimes unjust.
- Marcus Aurelius
He often acts unjustly who does not do a certain thing; not only who does a certain thing.
- Marcus Aurelius
It is a ridiculous thing for a man not to fly from his own badness, which is indeed possible, but to fly from other men's badness, which is impossible.
- Marcus Aurelius