Oswald Chambers Quotes

I think the greater responsibility, in terms of morality, is where leadership begins.

I. Hate. Excuses. Excuses are a disease.

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

If you tell someone a secret, and ask them to keep it secret, you are asking them to display a discretion you are unable to display yourself.

...the man who passes the sentence should swing the sword." "...a ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is.

I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.

If you're gonna pretend to be something, then you have to at least live up to what it is.

Whether for life or death, do your own work well.

Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar.

We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.

I will never do a record without some sense of responsibility.

Blame is just a lazy person's way of making sense of chaos.

Once you start lying, you get kind of comfortable. You start believing it. Especially if you truly believe you didn't really cheat because you were doing what everybody else was doing.

An ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition.

If you wanna cross somebody, then do that. Don't act like it wasn't you.

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

It's really amazing that in the age of unbelief, as a smart man called it, there isn't even more fraud. After all, with no God, there's no one to ever call you to account, and no accounting at all if you can get away with it.

I've been acting professionally since I was 15 years old, and after a while, you get really tired of people telling you one thing and then doing another.

I'm a big proponent of accountability.

Saying and doing are two things.

No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.

Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.

There's good and bad everywhere in any aspect in life. The only people who we can't really trust are politicians. Because those guys lie to everybody and constantly.

Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections.