We Are Responsible For Quotes

#1. No one can lead our lives for us. We are responsible for our actions. So people-especially the younger generation
need to be very careful especially where safe sex is concerned.

Salman Ahmad

#2. There are times when we can blame a situation on others, but we own our reactions to them. There comes a point where we are the ones responsible for our choices and excuses don't carry weight anymore.

Penelope Douglas

#3. Karsky: I met your father last week. Are you still interested in hearing how he is doing?
Hugo: No.
Karsky: It is very probable that you will be responsible for his death.
Hugo: It is virtually certain that he is responsible for my life. We are even.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#4. They scooped out our insides, Saul. We're not responsible for that. We're not responsible for what happened to us. None of us are. Fred said. But our healing
that's up to us. That's what saved me. Knowing it was my game.

Richard Wagamese

#5. Fighting the ageing process just doesn't work. I think that actresses, ultimately, are responsible for the faces we give to women.

Juliette Binoche

#6. It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.

Moliere

#7. I can't imagine any reasonably responsible person arguing against the abortion of mongols ... If we could tell what foetuses are going to be affected with cancer in their 40s and 50s, I would be for aborting them now.

Cecil Jacobson

#8. We are responsible not only for what we do, but also for what we fail to do.

Jan-Philipp Sendker

#9. We do make a difference - one way or the other. We are responsible for the impact of our lives. Whatever we do with whatever we have, we leave behind us a legacy for those who follow.

Stephen Covey

#10. We are already responsible for our negative experiences. We just aren't always conscious of it.

Anonymous

#11. In any event, we must remember that it's not the blinded wrongdoers who are primarily responsible for the triumph of evil in the world, but the spiritually sighted servants of the good.

Fyodor Stepun

#12. We don't think a child of 13 should be held responsible as a man of 23. That's true for most people, but black males age 13 who have been raised on the streets and who have joined criminal gangs are as big, strong, tough, scary and culpable as any adult and should be treated as such.

Ron Paul

#13. We are responsible for actions performed in response to circumstances for which we are not responsible.

Allan Massie

#14. We must distinguish between genes that cause physical characteristics, like the color of your eyes or hair, over which you have no control, and what we could call 'behavioral dispositions'. We are responsible for our behavior, no matter what those dispositions are.

Erwin W. Lutzer

#15. We adults, our policies, our ways of governance, are responsible for poverty, not the children.

Kailash Satyarthi

#16. As leaders, we are never responsible for filling anyone else's cup. Our responsibility is to empty ours.

Andy Stanley

#17. We are responsible for our captivity to sin. In our foolishness, we forget God. However, God intervenes!

Louie Giglio

#18. We live in a racist world. Everywhere there is racism. We say to White people, "You really have to examine how you behave in the world. You are responsible for deconstructing internalized racism and being part of a ongoing process of decolonizing yourself."

Eve Ensler

#19. We are responsible for what we hear other people say and for how we act.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#20. We are not responsible for our endowments or natural abilities, but we are responsible for the strategic use of time.

J. Oswald Sanders

#21. In love, no one can harm anyone else; we are each responsible for our own feelings and cannot blame someone else for what we feel.

Paulo Coelho

#22. We are individually responsible for our own happiness and destiny

Margo Vader

#23. As always when we bought a new home, Victor asked the questions about deed restrictions and taxes, while I asked the two questions I was always responsible for: "Has anyone ever died in the house?" and "How many bodies are buried on the property?

Jenny Lawson

#24. In the final analysis, each of us is responsible for what we are. We cannot blame it on our mothers, who, thanks to Freud, have replaced money as the root of all evil.

Helen Lawrenson

#25. The legal system we have and the rule of law are far more responsible for our traditional liberties than any system of one man one vote. Any country or Government which wants to proceed towards tyranny starts to undermine legal rights and undermine the law.

Margaret Thatcher

#26. We are responsible for the problem and we must be held responsible for the solution. It will indeed be a sad indictment on our species if rhinos and elephants are no more. And that day will come much sooner than we think if we do not take action.

Brian Connell

#27. But at the bottom of all the gloom, there is a sense that we are responsible for each other
if not for each other's happiness. There is empathy, admiration, respect for the other's intelligence and honesty.

Erica Jong

#28. I don't know that I believe that God is in control of everything that happens. As a Jew, I believe that we have free will and we are responsible for our actions. But I guess it's something I'm still probing.

David Gregory

#29. We are each of us responsible for the evil we may have prevented.

James Martineau

#30. We are not responsible for what we do; we are ignorant of our acts until we accomplish them.

Francis Picabia

#31. Dogs are blameless, devoid of calculation, neither blessed nor cursed with human motives. They can't really be held responsible for what they do. But we can."
--from The Dogs of Bedlam Farm

Jon Katz

#32. Quiet that self-sabotaging inner voice that lays blame anywhere besides at the altar of your feet. We are responsible for the quality of our lives.

Toni Sorenson

#33. We are not responsible for our feelings, as we are for our principles and actions ... Our care, then, should be to look to our principles, and to avoid all anxiety about our emotions. Their nature can never be wrong where our course of action is right, and for their degree we are not responsible.

Harriet Martineau

#34. We become equally responsible for the actions of others the instant we become conscious of what they are doing wrong but remain silent because we think it is right.

Suzy Kassem

#35. And it's important to remember we are all responsible - or certainly the elected members in Washington of both parties are responsible for making decisions and choices to ensure that the economy grows and jobs are created.

Jay Carney

#36. What we try to say is that it doesn't matter if you are a Republican or a Democrat or conservative or independent. You are equally responsible for your place in the culture, and you must make a contribution, and you must accept responsibility for what goes down on your watch.

Martin Sheen

#37. We are not responsible for finding the right formula to combat or unlock our suffering.

Tullian Tchividjian

#38. We - not our company - are responsible for our attitudes. What happens each day at work doesn't get to determine my attitude, I do. Attitude is a decision. And it's a decision we have to make every day, sometimes every hour if that particular day is especially whack.

Jon Acuff

#39. So long as we think of it objectively, time is Fate or Chance, the factor in our lives for which we are not responsible, and about which we can do nothing; but when we begin to think of it subjectively, we feel responsible for our time, and the notion of punctuality arises.

W. H. Auden

#40. We participate and are responsible for a lot of the things that happen to us. If you hate your job, you are much more likely to get sick and die at a younger age than someone who's happy at work and has a nice family life and is mentally well adjusted.

Bernie Siegel

#41. Let us be good stewards of the Earth we inherited. All of us have to share the Earth's fragile ecosystems and precious resources, and each of us has a role to play in preserving them. If we are to go on living together on this earth, we must all be responsible for it.

Kofi Annan

#42. We are responsible for living in a way that shows others who we truly are and what we believe.

Mark Sanborn

#43. We are each responsible for our own life-no other person can be.

Oprah Winfrey

#44. If, as some savants of consciousness suggest, we are actually agreeing to create, from moment to moment, everything we perceive as real, then it stands to reason that we're also responsible for keeping it going in some harmonious manner.

Phil Lesh

#45. That consciousness is everything and that all things begin with a thought. That we are responsible for our own fate, we reap what we sow, we get what we give, we pull in what we put out.

Madonna Ciccone

#46. Leadership is neither a rank nor a title. It is a choice. The choice to provide care and protection for those for whom we are responsible.

Simon Sinek

#47. If we are wrong, we will have destroyed a threat that, at its least is responsible for inhuman carnage and suffering. That is something I am confident history will forgive.

Tony Blair

#48. We are responsible for our actions. But we must battle for sufficient time in our own lives to bring value to our existence.

Fennel Hudson

#49. Never accept the blame for what evil people do. We are all responsible for our own actions.

Patricia Briggs

#50. We are responsible for this humanity, we should share it with kindness and generosity.

Debasish Mridha

#51. As humanists, we urge today, as in the past that humans not look beyond themselves for salvation. We alone are responsible for our own destiny and the best we can do is muster our intelligence, courage, and compassion to realize our highest aspirations.

Dan Barker

#52. The knowledge that we are responsible for living the life we have is our most powerful tool.

Srikumar Rao

#53. However great may be the work for which we are responsible, we will always do well if we pause to spend time in sacred praise.

Charles Spurgeon

#54. God knows that I detest slavery, but it is an existing evil, for which we are not responsible, and we must endure it, till we can get rid of it without destroying the last hope of free government in the world.

Millard Fillmore

#55. Either our wills are determined by prior causes and we are not responsible for them, or they are the product of chance and we are not responsible for them. If

Sam Harris

#56. I believe our background and circumstances may have influenced who we are but we are responsible for who we have become.

Unknown

#57. We are 100 percent responsible for the pursuit of holiness, but at the same time we are 100 percent dependent upon the Holy Spirit to enable us in that pursuit. The pursuit of holiness is not a pull-yourself-up-by-your-own-bootstraps approach to the Christian life.

Jerry Bridges

#58. In our search for more, we have blinded ourselves to our personal responsibility for challenging these absurdities. A resource-based society considers us all equal shareholders of Earth. We are responsible both for the planet and for our relationship with each other.

Jacque Fresco

#59. This was once a land where every sane person knew how to build a shelter, grow food, and entertain one another. Now we have been rendered permanent children. It's the architects of forced schooling who are responsible for that.

John Taylor Gatto

#60. If our life is built on God's standards and we are responsible and zealous for the things of the kingdom, then we will have persistent success in life and wealth, which will not bring tears

Sunday Adelaja

#61. If we stand idly by while states legalize bigotry, we are responsible for allowing it to happen.

Dannel Malloy

#62. When we ask bureaucrats to identify who is responsible for fixing anything, they reassure us that there are 'procedures in place.'

Michel Faber

#63. Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths. It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do. A lover whose passion is extreme loves even the faults of the beloved

Moliere

#64. We want a society in which we are free to make choices, to make mistakes, to be generous and compassionate. That is what we mean by a moral society - not a society in which the State is responsible for everything, and no one is responsible for the State.

Margaret Thatcher

#65. To be accountable means that we are willing to be responsible to another person for our behavior and it implies a level of submission to another's opinions and viewpoints.

Wayde Goodall

#66. As novices, we think we're entirely responsible for the way people treat us. I have long since learned that we are responsible only for the way we treat people.

Rose Wilder Lane

#67. Poor people are not by definition perfect. They and their communities are responsible for their own sins and failings, as are all God's children. But the evil that perpetuates their poverty is an evil for which we are all responsible. That evil is a demon to be exorcised.

Chad Myers

#68. We are responsible for our attitudes.

John C. Maxwell

#69. To punish the individual for the sins of the system makes no sense. We're responsible for changing it, yes. But we can't actually invent another universe, so we have to start where we are.

Gloria Steinem

#70. We've heard the excuses from those responsible for hiring that they don't want to take a chance on a new director. But the truth is that the industry hires new directors all the time; it's just that most of them are white males.

Lesli Linka Glatter

#71. It is as if we want to believe the lie. Perhaps we blame ourselves because in a strange way it helps us feel as if we have more control. If we are responsible for whatever went wrong, for whatever hurt us, we might be able to figure out how to keep it from happening again.

Edward T. Welch

#72. Cities are responsible for the vast majority of the creation of the economy. They're also places into which we pour the vast majority of resources, the vast majority of energy and the places where a huge percentage of the decisions about how systems are built and how products designed, etc., happen.

Alex Steffen

#73. If we learn to be responsible for our own emotions, thoughts, and needs, then we can see other people for who they are as opposed to what they can do for us.

Vironika Tugaleva

#74. We are responsible for protecting Tessa!

Cassandra Clare

#75. We are responsible for our country before God

Sunday Adelaja

#76. Not responding is a response - we are equally responsible for what we don't do.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#77. Since suffering confers no rights on its victims, we who witness are the ones responsible for restoring these lost rights.

Liv Ullmann

#78. The same way a compact disk isn't responsible for what's recorded on it, that's how we are. You're about as free to act as a programmed computer. You're about as one-of-a-kind as a dollar bill

Chuck Palahniuk

#79. We may find it convenient to live with the illusion that circumstances or other people are responsible for the quality of our lives, but the reality is that we are responsible-response-able-for our choices.

Stephen Covey

#80. I think we are responsible for the universe, but that doesn't mean we decide anything.

Rene Magritte

#81. It's hard to admit, but if we're brutally honest with ourselves, we see that God is more responsible for the accomplishments of our lives than we are.

Tim Hiller

#82. We are no more responsible for the evil thoughts that pass through our minds than a scarecrow for the birds which fly over the seedplot he has to guard. The sole responsibility in each case is to prevent them from settling.

John Churton Collins

#83. If we must have an enemy at the head of government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible.

Alexander Hamilton

#84. We make our own choices in life. Our actions shape our lives and we alone are responsible for them.

Ilona Andrews

#85. Our goal while on this earth is to transcend our illusions and discover the innate power of our spirit. We are responsible for what we create, and we must therefore learn to act and think with love and wisdom and live in service to others and all life.

Caroline Myss

#86. Remember, we are always responsible for what we attract in our life because we are the only ones generating our Energy frequency.

Mitesh Khatri

#87. All conditions and all circumstances in our lives are a result of a certain level of thinking. If we want to change the conditions and circumstances, we have to change the level of thinking that is responsible for it.

Albert Einstein

#88. Some say we are responsible for those we love. Others know we are responsible for those who love us.

Nikki Giovanni

#89. We all think we're retaliating," I say. "That's the nature of conflict. We all think our actions are justified by someone else's actions. But actually, we're responsible for what we do.

Stephen Elliott

#90. We must realize that we have a choice. We are responsible for our own good time ... When you do something you are proud of, dwell on it a little, praise yourself for it, relish the experience, take it in.

David Berkowitz

#91. After all, the world is not our handiwork, and we are not responsible for what goes on in it, save within very narrow limits.

H.L. Mencken

#92. Liberals in Congress have spent the past three decades pandering to environmental extremists. The policies they have put in place are in large part responsible for the energy crunch we are seeing today. We have not built a refinery in this country for 30 years.

Marsha Blackburn

#93. The all but unanimous judgment seems to be that we, the democracies, are just as responsible for the rise of the dictators as the dictatorships themselves, and perhaps more so.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

#94. We are forever responsible for that which we have tamed.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#95. Things happen and we are responsible for our own choices in life. There is no one else to blame.

Nilesh Rathod

#96. What do we mean by 'crazy?' What do we mean by 'mad?' At what point is a person just different and at what point can we call it a disease and say that they are not responsible for their actions? Or are we all slaves to the chemical processes that go on in our brains?

Jo Nesbo

#97. We become responsible for the actions of others the instant we become conscious of what they are doing wrong and fail to remind them of what is right.

Suzy Kassem

#98. We are not responsible for every thought that goes wandering through our mind. We are, however, responsible for the ones we hold there. We're especially responsible for the one's we put there.

Peter McWilliams

#99. We are responsible for the world in which we find ourselves, if only because we are the only sentient force which can change it.

James A. Baldwin

#100. We' had come to identify who was behind all the prodding and the pushing. Everything that happens to you, is really your very own. "Nobody is responsible for 'you'. 'You' are whole and sole responsible for yourself.

Dada Bhagwan