Quotes about Accountability
The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
- Henry Ward Beecher
To sit home, read one's favorite paper, and scoff at the misdeeds of the men who do things is easy, but it is markedly ineffective. It is what evil men count upon the good men's doing.
- Theodore Roosevelt
When things haven't gone well for you, call in a secretary or a staff man and chew him out. You will sleep better and they will appreciate the attention.
- Lyndon B. Johnson
One of the great tragedies of life is that men seldom bridge the gulf between practice and profession, between doing and saying.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Unhappily, no man exists who has not in his own person become, to some amount, a stockholder in the sin, and so made himself liable to a share in the expiation.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Speak to your people as to men that must be awakened, either here or in hell.
- Richard Baxter
It is truly enough said that a corporation has no conscience, but a corporation of conscientious men is a corporation with a conscience.
- Henry David Thoreau
Gladly we desire to make other men perfect, but we will not amend our own fault.
- Thomas a Kempis
One of the evils of democracy is, you have to put up with the man you elect whether you want him or not.
- Will Rogers
If a man gets drunk and goes out and breaks his leg so that it must be amputated, God will forgive him if he asks it, but he will have to hop around on one leg all his life.
- DL Moody
Evil succeeds when good men do nothing
- Edmund Burke
Where do murderers go, man! Who's to doom, when the judge himself is dragged to the bar?
- Herman Melville