Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Quotes

We shall be judged by what we do, not by how we felt while we were doing it.

Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody.

Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, children may be strangled, but deeds never: they have an indestructible life both in and out of our consciousness.

My Dear Son... remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.

There are generations yet unborn, whose very lives will be shifted and shaped by the moves you make and the actions you take.

But they who are unconcerned about the consequences of their actions are not therefore unconcerned about their actions.

What our Seventh Generation will have is a consequence of our actions today.

It is interesting to see how humans would act if they knew there were never any consequences for their actions because the next day they could wake up and just redo it.

They are focused on whether they can do something. They never think whether they should do something.

You will be judged in years to come by how you responded to genocide on your watch.

We all have to take responsibility for what we say and do.

The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.

Every action has a consequence, so always try to be good.

Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.

We must all live so that our children do not have to pay for our deeds.

In the end we are not going to be judged by how smart we are or by how much we care, but by what we have done.

We have, all of us, our duties. Every action of our lives, and every word that we utter, will either conduce to or detract from the discharge of our duty.

We will be judged. There will be an accounting; there will be a reckoning sooner or later. It will either come from ourselves and our own conscience, or it will come from our kids when they ask that inconvenient question: 'What were you doing when they turned those kids back from the border?'

Talk is cheap. Actions speak.

Speeches pass away, but acts remain.

If you see fraud and do not say fraud, you are a fraud.

A man can only be judged by his actions, and not by his good intentions or his beliefs.

What counts in a man or in a nation is not what the man or the nation can do, but what he or it actually does.

Life is moral responsibility.

Actions are remembered long after words are forgotten.