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Accountability Quotes


"If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged."


"Personal Responsibility is the state of being the person who caused something to happen."


"I think on civilian casualties they could do more. It's actually something I've discussed with the editors involved. They're aware of it, and I'm hopeful that there will be more reporting on that."


"The time is coming when we have to stand before the Lord to give account of our works."


"For example, I wouldn't hesitate to sit somebody down if he wasn't performing, even if he was the No. 1 player in the world. I've been sat down before."


"I don't make excuses, so don't make excuses for me. When I'm being an ass, it's because I have one."


"Stop shouting praise the Lord when you can't handle your life, you can't represent God when you are messing up his reputation."


"But in this Congress, accountability is just a catch phrase, usually directed elsewhere. Demands to personal responsibility or corporate accountability abound, but rarely congressional accountability or fiscal responsibility."


"All hate is the result of people refusing to take responsibility for their own lives."


"Censure is a limp noodle across the wrist of the president. I think the way we vote on the articles will express the way we feel stronger than any censure vote."



"No one in this world is in a position to interfere with you. Therefore, do not find fault with the world; the fault is only yours. These are the echoes of interferences that you had caused. Had you not interfered, there would be no echoes that would hit you."



"The reaction of whatever you do will continue punishing you (hold you accountable). I do not have to come to punish you, says God."


"The truth is that if you do not join the way of godliness, then you do not have any reason to complain when the ungodly are busy planning and making the pathway of ungodliness."


"I'm not going to make any excuses. I just went out and stunk it up tonight."


"I'm not making any excuses. I got my butt kicked in certain games."


"When people refuse to pay the price of personal responsibility for the problems of the nation, these same people end up paying the high price of irresponsibility, which is often in tragedy and sorrow."


"For how long are you going to continue making excuses? When have you ever solved anything through excuses?"


"I think the NBA players have to be held accountable in a reasonable way, just like any other professionals."


"It does not matter what party you are a member of in this great Nation of ours. Accountability and competence are characteristics that Americans value throughout our great land."


"Police officials routinely execute search warrants on private homes and offices, and Congressional offices should not be treated any differently. There cannot be one set of rules for elected officials and another set of rules for everyone else."


"To recklessly excuse a failure is to believe that I've effectively erased it from the story of my life, when I've actually imprinted it in indelible ink."


"If many good things have not happened in your life, God is not to be blamed."


"It is essential to check the quality of work carried out or people let you down."


"I craft most of my own tragedies without ever having even the remotest understanding that it is I myself who have done the crafting."


"You are responsible for your calling and you must give account."


"People should not expect to reap if they have not sown."


"You cannot be accountable with the products of someone else's mind, no man is known for a skillful hunting by the number of bush meats gathered by another man!"


"I paved the path to the very place I don't want to be. But passing the blame off to someone else doesn't put me any place else."


"Your life is a result of life`s principles that you either observed or violated."


"God has no business with irresponsible people."


"People who sit and expects miracles are wicked."


"Friends, since when has irresponsibility become a Nigerian factor?"


"Personal Responsibility of each citizen before the nation, is usually well defined in all developed nations."


"You cannot break any of God`s laws, you can only break yourself."


"When we refuse to do what we are supposed to do at the right time, the consequence is that of pain and tragedy."


"The pressure of adversity is the most powerful sustainer of accountability. It's as though everything you do is multiplied by 50 in order to surpass those with a head-start. I was never capable of slacking when at the threshold of failure."


"There is an intentional disregard for human health and safety in many government agencies that are tasked with protecting it."


"The blame game is already a lost game, so don't attempt dressing up to play it!"


"God does not have any business with irresponsible people."


"We must stop calling the looting of our national wealth, a share in the national cake."


"Until the police internal affairs system starts prosecuting and firing a substantial number of corrupt and incompetent police officers, I will not be lighting it up blue!"


"We don't have a good excuse before God if our nation and people are suffering as a result of our complacency."


"I know you would like to blame the world, but the fact is that life is an 'up to you' thing."


"The churches should be responsible for the faulty value system we now see in our society."


"We often blame our government for their lack of responsibility, socially and politically. We forget that that is only a result of the societal irresponsibility in general."


"The devil doesn't make anyone do anything. People just do things and blame the devil after."


"To punish someone for your own mistakes or for the consequences of your own actions, to harm another by shifting blame that is rightly yours; this is a wretched and cowardly sin."


"Apology means nothing without change, you have to follow it up with action."


"It's difficult to accept full responsibility and apportion blame at the same time " you have to choose one."
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