Richard Bach Quotes

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

I still totally believe in individual rights and individual responsibility and in choosing to do good.

Part One: I do not exist to impress the world. I exist to live my life in a way that will make me happy. Part Two: Everybody else is free to do whatever they feel like doing, for a living. Part Three: Responsible is Able to Respond, able to answer for the way we choose to live. There's only one person we have to answer to, of course, and that is ourselves.

Every person must stand up and be accountable, but be responsible for their actions.

In life, you can blame a lot of people and you can wallow in self-pity, or you can pick yourself up and say, 'Listen, I have to be responsible for myself.'

Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.

I want to be able, as days go by, always to look myself straight in the eye.

I think there are huge lessons there, for young people who are getting started in life, as well as other people. And that is, to take responsibility for your own life. Only you are responsible for the course you take from there.

Before you're a writer, you're a citizen, a human being, and therefore the weapons of the citizen are at your disposal to use or not use.

We can live our own lives in a way that does not bring reproach on the principles we claim to support.

We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

I've got a life, you know, take me in the totality of my actions and I'll tell you, I will stand with my record.

I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.

In dreams begin responsibilities.

The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices, every one of them, are leading you inexorably to either success or failure, however you define those terms.

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.

I am responsible for no one but myself.

If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.

Laws are only observed with the consent of the individuals concerned and a moral change still depends on the individual and not on the passage of any law.

You are not condemned for anything, but you are also not excused from anything. See these two ideas together at the same time, and a powerful third force for self-awakening is created.

We have, all of us, our duties. Every action of our lives, and every word that we utter, will either conduce to or detract from the discharge of our duty.

In just living my life, there's a responsibility to be true to myself, to be a responsible human.

Another person's life is that person's life. You can't take responsibility.

To try too hard to make people good is one way to make them worse. The only way to make them good is to be good, remembering well the beam and the mote.

While I fully recognize I had made a mistake in the whole relationship, and I'll call it a human error, I hesitate to call myself a victim because I strongly believe one should take responsibility for their actions.