Be Responsible Quotes

#1. If you took away publicists and things and people spoke for themselves, then they'd have to be responsible for their words.

Robert Pattinson

#2. Making women the sexual gatekeepers and telling men they just can't help themselves not only drives home the point that women's sexuality is unnatural, but also sets up a disturbing dynamic in which women are expected to be responsible for men's sexual behavior.

Jessica Valenti

#3. Her family was counting on her - to be responsible, to get good grades, to follow the rules, to be the good example. And more important, she expected those things of herself.

Michelle Madow

#4. You're not expecting, are you? (Jack)
No! (Syd)
Good, 'cause there's enough radon down there to give a fetus three heads. I don't want to be responsible for none of that. I only believe in corruption the ones what come out of the womb and grow to at least five feet in height. (Jack)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#5. It's easier to be responsible for the decisions that you've made yourself than for the ones that other people have made for you.

John Travolta

#6. I am one of the most irresponsible beings that ever lived. Irresponsibility is part of my invisibility; any way you face it, it is a denial. But to whom can I be responsible, and why should I be, when you refuse to see me?

Ralph Ellison

#7. Instead, he reached out and grabbed her hand. If it's all right right you, I think i'll keep ahold of you anyway. I don't want to be responsible for letting you fall again.

Kimberly Derting

#8. If you asked me, parents were supposed to affect the life of their child in such a way that the child grows up to be responsible, able to participate in life and in community.

Anne Lamott

#9. I don't know much about psychoanalysis, but I don't believe that we can blame our actions on our upbringings. If we could, then nobody would be responsible for anything they do.

Anne Blankman

#10. To change you must want to change, you must be responsible for the change, and then take action to make the change. It is your race to run so you need to choose your road wisely.

Thomas Narofsky

#11. The dunamis power of God equipes you to unleash your visions and that is your responsibility. You can't be responsible for what you are not equipped to do

Israelmore Ayivor

#12. Athletes know kids look up to them, and it's important for athletes to be responsible.

Deion Sanders

#13. Be responsible for every choice you make in your life. This is your life; it's nobody else's life, and you will find that it's nobody else's business what you do with your life.

Miguel Ruiz

#14. I do finish reading a script and say, Why are they making it and what are they talking about? I like to try and be responsible in my choices in that way.

Jennifer Connelly

#15. When you know your intention, you are in a position to choose the consequences that you will create for yourself. When you choose an intention that creates consequences for which you are willing to be responsible, that is a responsible choice.

Gary Zukav

#16. Speak up and speak clearly. I want to hear what you have to say because it matters. Let's listen to each other and respect one another's opinions. Although, they may be different, wisdom allows us to be responsible for our own feelings and actions.

Felicia Johnson

#17. He's gods' blessed. He can do more than one thing at once. Be an idiot and be responsible. He has these multiple skills."
"Much like women, but they're not called gods' blessed. They're just called women.

Melina Marchetta

#18. We are not responsible for what breaks us, but we can be responsible for what puts us back together again. Naming the hurt is how we begin to repair our broken parts.

Desmond Tutu

#19. I don't want to express my opinion about actual politics, because if I do, I have to be responsible for my decision.

Haruki Murakami

#20. When you're 18, you escape if you want to. Sixteen, you're still really depending on the people around you. You can't drive, and you can't support yourself. You can't legally be responsible for yourself.

Michael Cera

#21. But what I am beginning to suspect is that most guilty people reject the possibility of forgiveness not because it is too good to believe, but because they fear the responsibility forgiveness entails. It's hell to be guilty, but its worse to be responsible.

William Sloane Coffin

#22. He [Brian Fraser] told me that a man must be responsible for any see he sows, for it's his duty to take care of a woman and protect her. And if I wasna prepared to do that, then I'd no right to burden a woman with the consequences of my own actions.

Diana Gabaldon

#23. Some people say that our salvation lies with God, or with God's Son, yet is not the human heart the place where such Divinity is found? Therefore open your heart, and open TO your heart, that you may hear its call to reflect, to be meek, and to be responsible.

Neale Donald Walsch

#24. If you eat something and get fat, you should be responsible for it. I think that is the attitude of the great majority of Americans, that you should be responsible for what you eat.

Vic Snyder

#25. The exceptional patient is the person who, despite their diagnosis, takes charge of their health and decides to be responsible to their illness or their condition and not necessarily feel responsible for it. One stance is drenched in blame and the other is full of power.

Christiane Northrup

#26. Stakeholders - meaning workers and community - the CEO could just as well be responsible to them. This presupposes there ought to be management but why does there have to be management? Why not have the stakeholders run the industry?

Noam Chomsky

#27. You could get a cheer by saying: 'Let's withdraw from Afghanistan', but I don't think that's where the public's at. It wouldn't be responsible.

Ed Balls

#28. You cannot be responsible for some things that happen on earth. You may attempt to act, God alone will decide. Some things are mysteries!

Israelmore Ayivor

#29. Remember you've done nothing wrong. You aren't responsible for what has happened, but you will be responsible for what may happen if you don't trust your parents to help. [said Craig]

Sarah Richards

#30. If only we could realize that our purpose is to be caretakers. We are responsible for leading our flock to the place where the grass is green, but it is up to them to eat! We cannot be responsible for how much they digest. We cannot make people mature.

T.D. Jakes

#31. If you're doing a big spectacle film, you've got to be mindful of large masses. Even then, you've got to be responsible only to your storytelling.

Guillermo Del Toro

#32. Reason is neutral. It has no biases. It has no agendas. There are no personal interests at stake. Reason simply says, "Here is the data, be responsible with it." As such, reason is impartial.

Michael Vito Tosto

#33. If I have to hear one more story about what great fun it was working with you 'back in the city,' which I assume he means that slab of concrete and garbage on the Hudson River, I will not be responsible for the removal of his tongue.

Mark Del Franco

#34. I think labels for the most part want to sign new discoveries so that that label alone is seen to be responsible for the rise of the artist. Not many labels want bands who have already made their mark, because their success is usually attributed to some other label somewhere else at another time.

Steven Morrissey

#35. We can't be responsible for other people's reactions to us, Lakshmi," she said. "We can only make sure our intentions are good.

Thrity Umrigar

#36. One other thing I think a conservative believes is that the parents, not government, are and should be responsible for the upbringing and behavior of their children.

Lyn Nofziger

#37. To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the sight of what seems to be unmerited misery. It is to take pride in a victory won by one's comrades. It is to feel, when setting one's stone, that one is contributing to the building of the world.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#38. I'm trying to figure out precisely which character flaw might be responsible for my latest life failure.

Koren Zailckas

#39. In order to be responsible, you need some discipline in your life. For a while I lost mine.

Donatella Versace

#40. Our grandmothers and great-grandmothers have paid more than their fair share, and our nation owes them and their children, and their children's children, a lifetime of healthy choices and second chances. That would be responsible.

Kiese Laymon

#41. The thing about film-making is I give it everything, that's why I work so hard. I always tell young actors to take charge. It's not that hard. Sign your own cheques, be responsible.

Tom Cruise

#42. The inherent purpose of American government is let people seek their own goals and to encourage them to be responsible on the various adventures they have on their way to those goals, good, bad, and otherwise.

P. J. O'Rourke

#43. You have to be responsible for the energy you're putting out into the world.

Oprah Winfrey

#44. Art isn't and shouldn't be responsible. If it is, it isn't functioning as art.

Stephen Graham Jones

#45. You don't have to be responsible for the world that you're in.

John Von Neumann

#46. We need to encourage designers and agencies to be responsible. We need to make sure everyone is sensitive to the issues. But to calculate the girls' body mass - I personally think it is demeaning.

Diane Von Furstenberg

#47. Be attentive, be intelligent, be responsible, be loving, and if necessary, change.

Bernard Lonergan

#48. I think we should try to be responsible and educate ourselves. I'm simply doing that and traveling, learning first hand, and seeing first hand what's going on.

Angelina Jolie

#49. My parents were farmers' kids from South Dakota. My dad was an engineer. I wanted to be responsible and major in something pragmatic.

Ron Carlson

#50. Excess body fat alters the levels of the hormones insulin, leptin, and estrogen, and these factors are believed to be responsible for the acceleration of pubertal timing by obesity.

Joel Fuhrman

#51. An artist cannot be responsible for what people make of their art. An audience loathe giving up preconceived images of an artist.

Stephen Stills

#52. The body is like a companion, a friendly pet that follows one around ... One can continue to own the body and be responsible for it without identifying with it as one's identity.

David Hawkins

#53. If the terrorists have the sympathy of people, it's much harder to find them. So we need people on our side, and that leads us to be responsible leaders of the world, show some concern with the problems.

George Soros

#54. War with evil; but show no spirit of malignity toward the man who may be responsible for the evil. Put it out of his power to do wrong.

Theodore Roosevelt

#55. Responsible, who wants to be responsible? Whenever something bad happens, it's always, who's responsible for this?

Jerry Seinfeld

#56. There are a limited number of promoters out there who care about that. You rarely meet a promoter who's like, "I want to be responsible for the best shows, I want to make sure that these are the best shows these audiences have ever seen."

Will Oldham

#57. When you hear clip-clop-clip outside your window in most cases the sound will be made by a horse, but once in a while (rarely), a zebra will be responsible for the sound.

Nicholas Dodman

#58. Our stewardship of the Earth is brief. We owe it to those who follow to keep that in perspective, to be responsible passengers along the way.

George H. W. Bush

#59. It is impossible for anyone to be responsible for another person's behavior. The most you or any leader can do is to encourage each one to be responsible for himself.

Robert A. Heinlein

#60. The Government's enthusiasm for 24 hour drinking puzzles me ... We want people to be responsible, yet we urge them to drink.

Frank Dobson

#61. So I let them be responsible for there particular areas. Then by the time it gets to me that means that there is a problem. I have my eyes open and I need to know something about every department but you don't want to micro manage any particular department.

Dusty Baker

#62. One of the most important things to learn in life and love is that I can be responsible only for what I can control. While I can't control my husband (or anyone else), I can control me.

Linda Dillow

#63. While a reverse mortgage can indeed be a viable way to generate income, it is very important to understand that after you take out a reverse mortgage, you will still be responsible for paying the property tax, the insurance premium, and all the maintenance costs for your home.

Suze Orman

#64. Don't rely on someone else for your happiness and self-worth. Only YOU can be responsible for it. You have to invest in yourself, or no one else will.

Stacy Charter

#65. As we consider the causes of depression, those of us in the church must face the ways we might be responsible for creating it.

Tony Campolo

#66. Be responsible. Your abilities ensure that you respond to the responsibilities that you encounter daily.

Israelmore Ayivor

#67. God, Lincoln believed, is seen more clearly events that in nature, though He maybe seen there also. It is a majestic thing, thought Lincoln, for a person to be RESPONSIBLE.

Elton Trueblood

#68. A truly modern man, William Rackham is what might be called a superstitious atheist Christian; that is, he believes in a God who, while He may no longer be responsible for the sun rising, the saving of the Queen or the provision of daily bread, is still the prime suspect when anything goes wrong.

Michel Faber

#69. Women can be pressured to be perfect in many ways. And in our efforts to be "responsible" in every way, you might lose time and energy. If you truly want to direct [a film], you may have to let go of pleasing everyone on a consistent basis.

Jennifer Phang

#70. We may not be responsible for another's addiction or the life history that preceded it, but many painful situations could be avoided if we recognized that we are responsible for the way we ourselves enter into the interaction. And that, to put it most simply, means dealing with our own stuff.

Gabor Mate

#71. To build a positive attitude you must take some deliberate action. You must be responsible for your thoughts, words, and actions.

John Patrick Hickey

#72. Once I broke him out of jail, as it were, I would be responsible for him until my lawyers took over.

Hunter S. Thompson

#73. It's hard to be responsible, adult and sensible all the time. How good it is to have a sister whose heart is as young as your own.

Pam Brown

#74. When I turned 16, my dad made me sign a contract - he made us sign contracts for everything - that if I hit my car, I would be responsible for paying for it. I was in bumper-to-bumper traffic, and I tapped someone. It was so not a big deal, but I had to pay for it.

Kim Kardashian

#75. I coach to help boys become men of empathy and integrity who will lead, be responsible, and change the world for good.

Joe Ehrmann

#76. Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.

Max Stirner

#77. To be responsible is to be the uncontested author of an event or thing.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#78. Do not tell me you don't know you're pretty. If so, I'm
about to lose all faith in mankind. You don't want to be responsible for that.

J. Lynn

#79. A human should realize himself and be responsible for himself if he wants to become the true person he is to be

Sunday Adelaja

#80. It seems to me that any full grown, mature adult would have a desire to be responsible, to help where he can in a world that needs so very much, that threatens us so very much.

Norman Lear

#81. We need to be responsible for ourselves; we must create our own republics. Today we hand over our responsibility to the boss, to the company, to government, and then blame them when everything goes wrong.

Tom Hodgkinson

#82. We want to feel that our world is intelligible, so we can be responsible for

Matthew B. Crawford

#83. If you want your people to be responsible, be responsive to their needs.

Ken Blanchard

#84. She is in charge of everything, but no one knows. It is a tremendous burden, she says, to be responsible for every little thing, every infant born, every leaf falling from every tree, every wave that breaks onto the beach, every ant on its journey.

Anthony Doerr

#85. If you're going to be a father and whatnot, yeah, you better be responsible about it as best you can.

Ben Mendelsohn

#86. We can only be responsible for what we ourselves do.

Diana Peterfreund

#87. That's incredible ... I don't know
okay, well, you know, nobody's probably voting for me. I mean, I'm not Richard. I haven't gone out of my way to be responsible or anything.

Rachel Caine

#88. Creative intelligences, being evolved arrived late in the universe and therefore cannot be responsible for designing it.

Richard Dawkins

#89. The church is not called to be responsible for the way unbelievers run their lives. But we are called to be responsible, by the power of the Spirit and for the glory of Jesus, for the way believers live and the kind of relationships that are cultivated in the fellowship of the church.

John Piper

#90. I've always been a little bit cautious about what projects I step into. I don't mean to be dramatic, but I feel that every single thing you do in life, you give a piece of your soul, and I want to be responsible with that.

Bryce Dallas Howard

#91. No one wanted to be responsible for telling the young and innocent Princess about the things a man and a woman could do together. No one wanted to take away my innocence. Well I was now 112 years old, I figured I was old enough to learn.

Laura Greenwood

#92. If we want people on the front lines of companies to be responsible for making good business decisions, they must have the same information that managers use to make good business decisions.

Ken Blanchard

#93. It's what I've been trained to do. It's what's expected of me. To be responsible. To follow the rules. To make logical decisions and to use this precious brain, but Razor's teaching me there's more to me than logic- there's also a ton of passion.

Katie McGarry

#94. To say that God permits evil in the world may not be pleasing to the ear. But if He is held responsible for the good, it follows that He has to be responsible for the evil too.

Mahatma Gandhi

#95. I still don't understand anything- exept that somehow I know that You are love. And that in my heart has been so great a love for Christy as I did not know could exist on this earth. You, God, must be responsible. You must have put it there. So what do I do with it now?

Catherine Marshall

#96. I think that we need to look hard at our beliefs and be responsible about how we speak out.

Mary Steenburgen

#97. I was raised with the idea that you can feel sorry for yourself, but then, get over it, because it doesn't get you anywhere. There was always this awareness that you have to be responsible for yourself in order to have what you want

Charlize Theron

#98. We [USA] have a $16 trillion debt which these tax increases will do nothing to solve and you will have at least 200,000 less jobs next year than you have now. And the people who vote for that will be responsible for that decision and they will held accountable for that terrible public policy.

Marco Rubio

#99. I will not do work that isn't done well or right. Stuff happens - things break, contractors don't come through - but I don't want to be responsible for not doing something correctly.

Genevieve Gorder

#100. Only we know what we can and want to give, and only we can be responsible for drawing that line. If we do not draw it, we can quickly become resentful.

Henry Cloud