Quotes about Accountability

Never promise more than you can perform.

Every man must bear his own burden.

Apply this simple rule to your conversations: If you wouldn't write it down and sign it, don't say it.

I'll never tell a lie. I'll never make a misleading statement. I'll never betray the confidence that any of you had in me. And I'll never avoid a controversial issue.

The world runs by ungrace. Everything depends on what I do.

Forgiveness is not the same as pardon, he advises: you may forgive one who wronged you and still insist on a just punishment for that wrong.

God formed an alliance based on the world as it is, full of flaws, whereas prayer calls God to account for the world as it should be.

Men, on the most elementary level, you do not have to go to church to be a Christian. You do not have to go home to be married either. But in both cases if you do not, you will have a very poor relationship.

In one case, you're hoping someone else will do the right thing. In the other case, you're directing your own life, even if someone else does something stupid. Guess which path is going to be more successful.

Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed" (Genesis 9:6; emphasis added).

We measure morality by what happens. Not what is intended.

The Hasidic Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav (1772—1810) taught, 'If you are not going to be better tomorrow than you were today, then what need do you have for tomorrow?' To which Telushkin has added: 'And if no one feels comfortable criticizing you, the likelihood that you will be better tomorrow is most probably nonexistent.