accountability

The pride of man hopes but to blame God for the evils of the world, and to praise himself for the good.

The people who say poverty is no excuse for low performance are now using teacher accountability as an excuse for doing nothing about poverty.

The dark might be dark, but at least we don__ have to look at ourselves when we__e standing in it.

An apology can be a wonderful thing so long as it is infrequent and from the heart. However, beware of the person who justifies bad behavior with apologies. For them it is a means to an end, and quite often at your expense.

There is no fault, only responsibility.

Some want, to be exempt. They do not want to excel, they do not want to exert. They want to be considered excellent, for desiring to be held exempt, from all accountability.

The reason placing blame repeatedly fails to work is that I repeatedly place it on everyone else instead of where it actually belongs.

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.

Secret elisions within families are suddenly revealed by self-execution, and just as quickly sheeted with excuses, blame, and counter-blame. But sense is made of the world only through relationship between action and reaction, symptom and cause. No change is possible without analysis of accountability.

The only way we succeed as a group is not simply following directions, but in keeping each other accountable for our actions.

It is better to stay single and wait for the one that makes sense then to marry someone that makes absolutely no sense. The moment you settle is when the one person that makes all the sense in the world shows up and Satan sits back and enjoys your spiritual meltdown.

Before you make a decision, ask yourself this question: will it result in regret or joy in the future?

If you aren't diligently working towards changing something that bothers you, you rescind your right to complain about it.

Motivation is desire or inspiration. A motive is a reason. What's your reason?

There is no ownership. There is only stewardship.

your thoughts will make you a victor or a victim.

Fearlessness is not what you do to win, but what you don't do. When you love yourself as much as your God, you won't see other people as the source of your pain. Rather, you will see who you have become because you honestly believed that your chains would be broken through hatred, instead of kindness.

Requiring accountability while also extending your compassion is not the easiest course of action, but it is the most humane, and, ultimately, the safest for the community.