Top 100 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. 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
#3. We are responsible for actions performed in response to circumstances for which we are not responsible.
Allan Massie
#4. 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
#5. We are responsible for our captivity to sin. In our foolishness, we forget God. However, God intervenes!
Louie Giglio
#7. We are not responsible for our endowments or natural abilities, but we are responsible for the strategic use of time.
J. Oswald Sanders
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. We are responsible for living in a way that shows others who we truly are and what we believe.
Mark Sanborn
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. We are responsible for this humanity, we should share it with kindness and generosity.
Debasish Mridha
#16. The knowledge that we are responsible for living the life we have is our most powerful tool.
Srikumar Rao
#17. I believe our background and circumstances may have influenced who we are but we are responsible for who we have become.
Unknown
#18. If we stand idly by while states legalize bigotry, we are responsible for allowing it to happen.
Dannel Malloy
#20. 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
#23. I think we are responsible for the universe, but that doesn't mean we decide anything.
Rene Magritte
#24. 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
#25. Some say we are responsible for those we love. Others know we are responsible for those who love us.
Nikki Giovanni
#26. 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
#27. Things happen and we are responsible for our own choices in life. There is no one else to blame.
Nilesh Rathod
#28. 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
#29. Being a member of a church means so much more than standing next to someone else and singing some songs once a week. Being a member of a church means realizing that we are responsible for helping the brothers and sisters around us to grow as disciples of Jesus.
David Platt
#30. No one else "makes" us do anything. They can't make us nag them, or make us angry, or make us have to strike out at them, or make us drink alcohol, or make us yell at them, or anything else. We are responsible for our choices, including our responses and reactions.
Cathy Burnham Martin
#31. I've learned that our backgrounds and circumstances may have influenced our lives, but we are responsible for who we become and in the same breath, who we become can't be preached and can only really be shown through our actions.
Elissa Gabrielle
#32. We are responsible for the Universe, because we are the Universe'
(Brida)
Paulo Coelho
#33. 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
#34. We are responsible for our own destiny. What matters is how we improve ourselves from this moment forward.
Daisaku Ikeda
#35. We are responsible for everything we do and do not do.
Michelle Hodkin
#36. We are responsible for our own relationships, their successes, their failures, the good times, the bad times. Take responsibility for creating the relationships that you desire.
Sam Owen
#37. We do not have the right to feel helpless. We must help ourselves. After destiny has delivered what it delivers, we are responsible for our lives.
Cheryl Strayed
#38. We don't live alone. We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other. And I tell you that the time will soon come when if men will not learn that lesson, then they will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish. Good night.
J.B. Priestley
#39. We are not responsible to God for the soul that are saved, but we are responsible for the Gospel that is preached, and for the way in which we preach it
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#40. We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other.
J.B. Priestley
#41. The modern period adds social ethics to religions agenda, for we now realize that social structures are not like laws of nature. They are human creations, so we are responsible for them.
Huston Smith
#42. We are not responsible for the circumstances we are in, but we are responsible for the way we allow those circumstances to affect us; we can either allow them to get on top of us or we can allow them to transform us into what God wants us to be.
Oswald Chambers
#43. We are responsible for everything that happens in this world. We are warriors of light, and with the strength of our love and of our will we can change our destiny and that of many other people.
Paulo Coelho
#44. Being a member of a church means realizing that we are responsible for helping the brothers and sisters around us to grow as disciples of Jesus. In the same way, they are responsible for helping us. We desperately need each other in the daily fight to follow Christ in a world that's full of sin.
David Platt
#45. We create our own government. We are responsible for its beauty and for its ugliness. We are responsible for its glories and for its failures and, most important, we are responsible for amending those failures no matter who are their most immediate architects.
Charlie Pierce
#46. Happy Tuesday! We are responsible for peace and order in our lives! When your world is CONSTANTLY filled with chaos, then it's time to take a look at SELF!
Tracey Edmonds
#47. At the end of the day, we are responsible for our own lives. If anything happens to us, don't blame somebody else. Backtrack and look at what you did to contribute to that. You also contribute to your successes. Once you learn that, you're on your way.
Isaac Hayes
#48. If we really want to know who is responsible for the mess we're in, all we have to do is look in the mirror. You and I own this country, and we are responsible for what happens to it.
Ross Perot
#49. The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.
Katherine Anne Porter
#50. We are born with our father's names. We are not responsible for their failures. We are responsible for what they made us believe in. That is our only obligation. And it is even then a choice which we may sometimes be wise to ignore.
Warren Eyster
#51. God is responsible for the consequences of our obedience, WE are responsible for the consequences of our disobedience
Charles Stanley
#52. We are responsible for the quality of our vision, we have a say in the shaping of our sensibility. In the many thousand daily choices we make, we create ourselves and the voice with which we speak and work.
Carolyn Forche
#53. No Australian today is responsible for what happened on our colonial frontier. But we are responsible for not acknowledging what happened. If we do not, our integrity as a nation is flawed and we are shamed as a people for perpetuating a lie.
Timothy Bottoms
#54. We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#55. Yes, faith is a choice, and it must be sought after and developed. Thus, we are responsible for our own faith. We are also responsible for our lack of faith. The choice is yours.
Richard C. Edgley
#56. Bad ideas do not just happen. We are responsible for them. They result from carelessness on our part, when we cease to pay sufficient attention to the relational quality of ideas, or, worse, are a product of the willful rejection of objective facts.
Dennis Q. McInerny
#57. Improvisation and new learning are not private processes; they are shared with others at every age. We are called to join in a dance whose steps must be learned along the way, so it is important to attend and respond. Even in uncertainty, we are responsible for our steps.
Mary Catherine Bateson
#58. We are meant to discover that we are powerful creators, if not of our entire reality, at least of our experience of reality. We aren't responsible for what each moment holds, but we are responsible for our experience of each moment because we have the power to make any moment heaven or hell.
Gina Lake
#59. We each decide whether to make ourselves learned or ignorant, compassionate or cruel, generous or miserly. No one forces us. No one decides for us, no one drags us along one path or the other. We are responsible for what we are.
Maimonides
#60. We are responsible for experiences that aren't our fault all the time. This is part of life. Here's
Mark Manson
#61. Accountability is the natural product of agency and is the basis of the plan of life. We are responsible for our own actions and accountable to God for what we choose to do with our lives. Life is God's gift to us, and what we do with it is our gift to him.
Elaine Cannon
#62. As human beings, we are responsible for our own lives. Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions. We can subordinate feelings to values.
Stephen Covey
#63. 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
#64. Once we know and are aware, we are responsible for our action and our inaction. We can do something about it or ignore it. Either way, we are still responsible.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#65. 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
#66. 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
#67. 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
#68. Fighting the ageing process just doesn't work. I think that actresses, ultimately, are responsible for the faces we give to women.
Juliette Binoche
#69. It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
Moliere
#70. 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
#71. We are responsible not only for what we do, but also for what we fail to do.
Jan-Philipp Sendker
#72. We are already responsible for our negative experiences. We just aren't always conscious of it.
Anonymous
#73. 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
#74. 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
#75. We adults, our policies, our ways of governance, are responsible for poverty, not the children.
Kailash Satyarthi
#76. As leaders, we are never responsible for filling anyone else's cup. Our responsibility is to empty ours.
Andy Stanley
#77. 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
#78. 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
#79. We are individually responsible for our own happiness and destiny
Margo Vader
#80. 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
#81. 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
#82. 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
#83. We are each of us responsible for the evil we may have prevented.
James Martineau
#84. We are not responsible for what we do; we are ignorant of our acts until we accomplish them.
Francis Picabia
#85. 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
#86. 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
#87. 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
#88. 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
#89. 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
#90. We are not responsible for finding the right formula to combat or unlock our suffering.
Tullian Tchividjian
#91. 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
#92. 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
#93. 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
#94. 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
#95. We are each responsible for our own life-no other person can be.
Oprah Winfrey
#96. 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
#97. 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
#98. 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
#99. Never accept the blame for what evil people do. We are all responsible for our own actions.
Patricia Briggs
#100. 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
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