Top 100 We Are Responsible Quotes
#1. 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
#2. Fighting the ageing process just doesn't work. I think that actresses, ultimately, are responsible for the faces we give to women.
Juliette Binoche
#4. 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
#5. We are already responsible for our negative experiences. We just aren't always conscious of it.
Anonymous
#6. 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
#7. We are responsible for actions performed in response to circumstances for which we are not responsible.
Allan Massie
#8. We adults, our policies, our ways of governance, are responsible for poverty, not the children.
Kailash Satyarthi
#10. We are not responsible for our endowments or natural abilities, but we are responsible for the strategic use of time.
J. Oswald Sanders
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. God grants us the faculty to open ourselves to peace. If we don't then we are responsible if wars continue.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. I can assure you we are a responsible nuclear power.
Manmohan Singh
#19. We are not responsible for finding the right formula to combat or unlock our suffering.
Tullian Tchividjian
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. We are responsible for living in a way that shows others who we truly are and what we believe.
Mark Sanborn
#23. And don't you ever do anything like that again! I am the one who ends up in the stupid life-threatening situations. You are the levelheaded, responsible one in this relationship. Got it? This is how this whole thing works. We have to stick to our designated roles, or there is chaos!
Molly Harper
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. We are responsible for this humanity, we should share it with kindness and generosity.
Debasish Mridha
#27. 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
#28. I believe our background and circumstances may have influenced who we are but we are responsible for who we have become.
Unknown
#29. 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
#30. The institutions of the European Union, and the states that belong to this union, each and every one, are paying the price of our failures, hesitations and contradictions. We should each ask ourselves how personally responsible we are.
Giorgio Napolitano
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. 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
#40. I think we are responsible for the universe, but that doesn't mean we decide anything.
Rene Magritte
#41. We make our own choices in life. Our actions shape our lives and we alone are responsible for them.
Ilona Andrews
#43. 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
#44. 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
#45. 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
#46. 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
#47. 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
#48. 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
#49. 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
#50. There is one irrefutable law of the universe: We are each responsible for our own life. If you're holding anyone else accountable for your happiness, you're wasting your time. You must be fearless enough to give yourself the love you didn't receive.
Oprah Winfrey
#51. Because peace is a fruit of the Spirit, we are dependent upon the Spirit's work in our lives to produce the desire and the means to pursue peace. But we are also responsible to use the means He has given us and to take all practical steps to attain both peace within and peace with others.
Jerry Bridges
#52. Think carefully. We only have one life to live. We alone are responsible for it.
Ayse Kulin
#53. We are responsible for our own destiny. What matters is how we improve ourselves from this moment forward.
Daisaku Ikeda
#54. We are ultimately alone in that we are ultimately responsible for ourselves.
Robert Zemeckis
#55. How innocent we are of our mistakes and how we responsible we are for them.
David Sheff
#56. The acomodador: Because according to the story we are told, there always comes a moment in our lives when we reach "our limit" ... there is always an event in our lives that is responsible for us failing to progress
Paulo Coelho
#57. We are responsible for everything we do and do not do.
Michelle Hodkin
#58. 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
#59. 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
#60. The most terrifying aspect of human health is our refusal to take steps to help ourselves and the fact that we are so often responsible for our own demise through lack of positive action. It makes me want to take a nap.
Lena Dunham
#61. I think Shah Rukh and I have done essentially romantic films that had great contributions from everyone else, so it's not as if we alone are responsible for our hits.
Kajol
#62. 'The Author' is a play about responsibility, how active we are as spectators and how responsible we are for what we choose to look at.
Tim Crouch
#63. Profound sadness is always the result of an unhealthy condition of the body ... We [should] say, 'I am sad; everything looks black to me; but external events are in no way responsible. It's my body that insists on reasoning. These are the opinions of my stomach.'
Emile Chartier
#64. To be contemplative we must remove the clutter from our lives, surround ourselves with beauty, and consciously, relentlessly, persistently, give clutter away until the tiny world for which we ourselves are responsible begins to reflect the raw beauty that is God.
Joan D. Chittister
#65. Problems are the gifts that make us dig out and figure out who we are, what we're made for, and what we're responsible to give back to life.
Tony Robbins
#66. 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
#67. 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
#68. The ancient Ionians were the first we know of to argue systematically that laws and forces of Nature, rather than gods, are responsible for the order and even the existence of the world.
Carl Sagan
#69. I'm sure that we can handle this situation maturely, just like the responsible adults that we are. Isn't that right, Mr. Poopy Pants?
Leslie Nielsen
#70. We tend to rush toward the complex when trying to solve a daunting problem, but in this case, simplicity wins. Better buildings, responsible energy use and renewable energy choices are all we need to tackle both energy independence and climate change,
Edward Mazria
#71. Publicly, we're saying we're better at fighting terrorism. Privately, we know that the bureaucracy has only gotten worse, since the high-level people are scared of being held responsible for 9/11.
David Hunt
#72. Free will is actually more than an illusion (or less), in that it cannot be made conceptually coherent. 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.
Sam Harris
#73. 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
#74. We are each responsible for all of our experiences.
Louise L. Hay
#75. We are responsible not only for our action, but also for the outcome of those actions.
L.M. Falcone
#76. We are all responsible to Jesus first, and then, under him, to various other persons and offices. Discerning the path of love and obedience when two or more of these submissive relationships collide is a call to humble, Bible-saturated, spiritual wisdom.
John Piper
#77. 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
#78. 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
#79. We who live in this nervous age would be wise to meditate on our lives and our days long and often before the face of God and on the edge of eternity. For we are made for eternity as certainly as we are made for time, and as responsible moral beings we must deal with both.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#80. We, we, and none else, are responsible for what we suffer. We are the effects, and we are the causes.
Swami Vivekananda
#81. 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
#82. Somatic Exercises can change how we live our lives, how we believe that our minds and bodies interrelate, how powerful we think we are in controlling our lives, and how responsible we should be in taking care of our total being.
Thomas Hanna
#83. Ultimately though, we are not responsible for another's happiness. The unhappy person almost always suffers from self-inflicted pain.
James Dillehay
#84. Once you are there, once you walk through the wall with me, then as I see it you are one of us. We are responsible to you and you to us; you become an Anarresti, with the same options as all the others. But they are not safe options. Freedom is never very safe.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#85. Though we live in the colony of time, we are ultimately responsible to the empire of eternity.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#86. Leaders are like gardeners ... As leaders we are not only responsible for harvesting our own success but for cultivating the success of the next generation.
Susan Collins
#87. We seem to be getting closer and closer to a situation where nobody is responsible for what they did but we are all responsible for what somebody else did.
Thomas Sowell
#88. But there are people you know, and there are people you have a connection with.
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Wasn't that what make us feel responsible-not for what happened, but responsible for you? We always felt responsible for you. That's the nature of connection-not just the attachment, but the responsibility.
David Levithan
#89. 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
#90. These great historical figures we admire for their conquests, their drive, their ambition, and the progress they are said to have been responsible for. But would we have not been better off as a species without them?
Adam Nevill
#91. The planet belongs to all being; all beings are responsible. We all have to do whatever we can do no matter how small it is; nothing is too small.
Hamid Drake
#92. President Obama has expressed his commitment to responsible stewardship of our land, water, and other natural resources. And one way of restoring the land to its natural condition is what we are doing here today - breaking pavement for the People's Garden.
Tom Vilsack
#93. In the last analysis, my fellow country men, as we in America would be the first to claim, a people are responsible for the acts of their government.
Woodrow Wilson
#94. ...we pretend to be grown up and responsible; we are so proud and self-assured--and look at the result. The world lies in bomb dust and ruins about us.
Alfred Delp
#95. I cannot help thinking that the death of the young is not in the plan of our being, and that we are ourselves greatly responsible for it. Indeed I believe we are at the beginning only of the art of living.
Georgiana Burne-Jones
#96. We live in a bubble sometimes, and you can get out of touch with your fans. You go to the studio, you come home. But coming to Comic-Con is a real opportunity to connect with the people that made your show happen and are responsible for its continued success. It's really humbling.
Kunal Nayyar
#97. We are responsible to ourselves for our own existence; consequently we want to be the true helmsman of this existence and refuse to allow our existence to resemble a mindless act of chance.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#98. We cause our diseases. We are directly responsible for any illness that happens to us.
Michael Crichton
#99. 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
#100. Everything that happens to us is the result of what we ourselves have thought, said, or done.We alone are responsible for our lives.
Gautama Buddha
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