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...

When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else.

When you’re saddled with the fact that it’s not low-level offenders and there’s no accountability, it’s doomed for failure.

We think Stephen Harper got off to a very bad start. When he has accountability as one of his lead priorities and he’s had the terrible question marks around ethics and accountability himself, we feel...

Telling the truth may cause a few seconds of pain, but there’s no medicine that can manage the pain of keeping lies.

There is nothing more valuable in the writing process than a friend to hold you accountable to your own potential.

You are a manager nonetheless who you are. There is a business worth keeping and you are the manager of that business. Yes, the business of your life. There is a big asset worth managing....

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

When you settle for anything short of the best life God wants to offer you, then you have been tempted to remain safe and the accountability for not changing your life becomes your prison of...

When we fail to set boundaries and hold people accountable, we feel used and mistreated. This is why we sometimes attack who they are, which is far more hurtful than addressing a behavior or a...

Once bitten, twice shy, thrice shame on me!

Proper process, should not hinder progress. Too much focus on process, has left many blind to measured, tangible progress.

The governor’s proposal would increase plan accountability while retaining board discretion on the administration of investment portfolios, … The effect should be to enhance transparency while having no measurable effect on performance. These are positive...

Friendship allows you to see your own life but with a second sympathetic self.

Introduction of rational standards to differentiate between acceptable and unacceptable forms of drug related conduct allows us to hold drug users fully accountable for any harm resulting from irresponsible, stupid or ‘anti-social’ drug use in...

We do not owe any soul, except that which played the most vital role in our lives.

For most people, blaming others is a subconscious mechanism for avoiding accountability. In reality, the only thing in your way is YOU.

The story of the American Civil War is essentially one of human beings––Northerners, Southerners, Blacks, Whites, men, women–– holding themselves accountable for the future of a nation.

There are many professions that require individuals, on an ongoing basis, to pass drug tests, physicals and psychological evaluations in order to keep their jobs. Maybe it’s time to start holding the people that are...

If God gives you a seed, He expects you to plant it;if He plants it for you, He expects you to water it; if He waters it for you, He expects you to prune it;...

Each day you are leading by example. Whether you realize it or not or whether it’s positive or negative, you are influencing those around you.

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...

Vulnerability is the birthplace of love, belonging, joy, courage, empathy, and creativity. It is the source of hope, empathy, accountability, and authenticity. If we want greater clarity in our purpose or deeper and more meaningful...

What do I want now? I want to be treated with the respect I deserve in the current VA system and not be retraumatized. I want the men who did this to me to be...

A colleague like Barnabas could comfort him (Paul) in illness and keep him from overstrain when fit.

Open collaboration encourages greater accountability, which in turn fosters trust.

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...