Quotes about Accountability
If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.
— Theodore Roosevelt
You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
— Jim Rohn
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
— Henry Ward Beecher
You can't talk your way out of problems you behave yourself into.
— Stephen Covey
Discipline yourself, and others won't need to.
— John Wooden
There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this: Deny your responsibility.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
Gone must be the days of only pointing fingers at others to fix what they may never fix. Our nation's ills are not merely the result of corruption or racism, although these are evil. Our troubles can also be traced directly to ineffective Christians.
— Tony Evans
It takes a real man to make a true confession - a Chocolate Soldier will excuse or cloak his sin.
— CT Studd
Someone must stand up to those who say, "Here's the key, there's the Treasury, just take as many of those hard-earned tax dollars as you want."
— Ronald Reagan
He that has once concluded it lawful to resist power, when it wants merit, will soon find a want of merit, to justify his resistance to power.
— Samuel Johnson
Every time we sin in thought, word, or deed, we're essentially saying in that moment that, "I don't need you God. I don't want you God. I like my way better than your way."
— Tullian Tchividjian
I don't want Him to return and find me sitting in a theater.
— Francis Chan