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Quotes about Accountability

We must look within ourselves, become responsible and provide fresh solutions if we ever want to do more than complain,or make excuses.
— Nelson Mandela
All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved.
— George Washington
We are free to choose our paths, but we can't choose the consequences that come with them.
— Sean Covey
He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.
— Seneca
He is not guilty who is not guilty of his own free will.
— Seneca
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
— Seneca
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.
— Seneca
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
— Shane Claiborne
The time has come to accept in our hearts and minds that with freedom comes responsibility.
— Nelson Mandela
What did you do with the time and talents i gave you? God's question.
— Hillary Clinton
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.
— Joe Biden