Quotes about Accountability

You can either complain about how hard your life is, or you can realize that only you are responsible for it.

If you catch them in an early lie, they learn their lesson and so they don't continue to do it. But if you don't call them on early lies, they only get worse, bigger, and more dangerous.

America comes with both rights and responsibilities. You have, for example, the right to free speech, but you have the responsibility to not yell 'fire' in a crowded theater. If you don't live up to that responsibility, you face certain consequences. It's a simple but effective formula. Unfortunately, tenured professors are completely insulated from it. They can scream fire in their classrooms all they want - and then hide behind their tenure if anyone questions them on it.

If we want to be endowed with rights — real human rights, we have to act with responsibility. We must not be comfortable with rights. We must be comfortable with responsibility.

Work at our responsibility as parents as if everything in life counted on it.

You are people with a present and with a future. Don't muff the ball. Be excellent.

People who carry in their hearts a strong conviction concerning the living reality of the Almighty and their accountability to Him for what they do with their lives are far less likely to become enmeshed in problems that inevitably weaken society.

Wilt thou seal up the avenues of ill? Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.

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

In a justly ordered universe, where loss of equipoise would mean total destruction, individual responsibility must be absolute.

A man's weakness and strength, purity and impurity, are his own, and not another man's; they are brought about by himself, and not by another; and they can only be altered by himself, never by another. His condition is also his own, and not another man's. His suffering and his happiness are evolved from within. As he thinks, so he is; as he continues to think, so he remains.

When a man burns himself, does he accuse the fire? Therefore, when a man suffers, let him look for some ignorance or disobedience within himself.