It is your life…OWN IT! Your life purpose empowers you and enables you to live life abundantly. Empowerment begins by taking responsibility for your life and being accountable for your actions. Empowerment is the courage...

One of the bigger mistakes of our time, I suppose, was preaching the demonization of all judgment without teaching how to judge righteously. We now live in an age where, apart from the inability to...

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...

Rationally speaking, blaming one’s behavior on alcohol or drugs is like blaming the ladder by which you descended into a pit, or the staircase that took you down to a cellar, for what you found...

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

Accountability is essential. So the question for me is, what did Secretary Rumsfeld and others in the Pentagon know, when did they know it and what did they do about it? … If the answers...

But, and here comes the rub, all of us feel that we are in complete control of our desire for things. We would never admit to an ungovernable spirit of covetousness. The problem is that...

During the youthful period of mankind’s spiritual evolution human fantasy created gods in man’s own image, who, by the operations of their will were supposed to determine, or at any rate to influence, the phenomenal...

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...

Jefferson was ambivalent about executive power – until he bore executive responsibility.

your thoughts will make you a victor or a victim.

Anyone can possess, anyone can profess, but it is an altogether different thing to confess.

Incredible how so many people have no sense of honor. How does this happen? This happens by thriving on how one appears to the world around him rather than cultivating a person inside him that...

In a weird way, the interagency review allows the US to hold international companies to a higher level of standards and accountability. There are some legitimate security concerns, but it’s going to come down to...

Be accountable to yourself.be true to yourself.

He had learned that close-held secrets could often be cracked by going all the way to the top and there making himself unbearably unpleasant. He knew that such twisting of the tiger’s tail was dangerous,...

Pointing fingers is the last thing I’ll do. It’s always my fault. And accountability, I think everyone else feeds off that.

Intentions do not insulate us from the consequences of our actions.

Every word appears in our mind as a composite of everything else we associate with it. We by default personify every word, because in each of our minds, when we think of a certain person,...

As for the journey of life; at some point you will realize that YOU are the driver and you will drive!

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...

The older you get the more you realize that just because someone has an important job doesn’t necessarily mean that they do it responsibly, or are even good at it. There are many ‘D’ students...

submit to each other out of reverence for Christ.” In many ways, wives should submit to their husbands in the same way any believer should submit to other believers, specifically by living according to the...

Yesterday is the history chapter in the book of life, isn’t it time you turned the page?

If two people truly have feelings for one another then they don’t have an affair. They get a divorce and they sort out their feelings. You are accountable for the people you hold hostage in...

Do they desire to join me in thanksgiving when they hear how, by your gift, I have come close to you, and do they pray for me when they hear how I am held back...

If you expose what it is that we’re doing, if you inform your fellow citizens about all the things that we’re doing in the dark, we will destroy you. This is what their spate of...

Look at him! He said he was going home, but there he is crawling into a bog!” No, do not gloat, but give me your help and support.

We’re in a very different world now. We demand accountability for spending. … We should look and demand accountability for every one of these tax breaks of which there are many in this budget.

Things are as they should be at this moment. When you accept that, you become responsible for everything you have and are. You then hold the power to change your future!

On one side of accountability is courage, on the other is freedom.

It’s satisfying because of the accountability. You put your name up on a sheet, and you have committed. It is a team effort. I’d like to see more small groups walking together, identifying with each...

We must reject the idea that every time a law’s broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

Should we try to account for all the gifts of life there would be no time for distress and uneasiness.

When a bully is held accountable for his actions, his future actions will change. Bad behavior only continues for those who allow it.

When you can truly understand how others experience your behavior, without defending or judging, you then have the ability to produce a breakthrough in your leadership and team. Everything starts with your self-awareness. You cannot...

Stop blaming and start aiming.

I don’t know how you can characterize the tone at the top at this company as encouraging accountability and doing the right thing when nobody’s looking if Mr. Edmondson continues as CEO, and there appears...

Blaming others is an act of refusing to take responsibility. When a person can’t accept the fact or the reality, they blamed another person or the situation instead of taking accountability.

As frustrating as the battle for purity must be, I suppose it’s easier if you’ve got company.

To get leaders to become stakeholders in ministry and to understand the DNA of your church, you must invest in them, equip them, and raise the bar of accountability.

There are a lot of black-hearted, mean-spirited bastards in the world. It’s important that we hold them to acount. But always remember that you might be the most black-hearted and mean-spirited in the lot, so...

People often attribute their successes to skill, and their failures to unfortunate circumstances. It’s like if I win it’s because I’m good, and if I lose it’s because I’m unlucky. With every victory, I amplify...

Men need men to keep their edges hot and clean, whereas women keep us warm and soft.

I saw the figure of 178 Billion wasted/stolen from the people of a country by its corrupt and inept government. Such a figure could truly transform the entire country; education, health, roads, schooling, entrepreneurial environment…...

We think [Baker’s proposal] would not have the same accountability and transparency for the American taxpayer that the normal appropriations process would.

Good health is subjective and cumulative depending on individual interpretation. Do not allow someone else’s shortcomings to become yours.

The knowledge worker cannot be supervised closely or in detail. He must direct himself toward performance and contribution

There is no fault, only responsibility.

It is difficult — if not impossible — in certain areas to achieve what we consider the appropriate level of accountability and enforcement unless the charter school governing body agrees with the proposed terms,