James Blunt Quotes

Behaviors are a choice. Feelings are sometimes out of our control. Behavior has to do with choices.

I made my share of mistakes. People can look at that as what not to do, and if they choose to make fun of it, that's fine. I can't control that. All I know is that I can control myself. And at that point in my life, I wasn't even able to do that.

I work on myself daily to be a better person. When I react in a negative way to somebody, I sit back and think about why I did it, so I'm always working on myself, and my music is the same.

The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.

I am the result of the good choices I've made and the bad choices.

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.

We can't determine our emotions, but we can choose our attitudes and actions.

I can't tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I've got a good bead on myself.

I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.

I'm very hard on myself. I'm the first person that'll say, 'Yeah I messed up.' And then I'll try to go out and fix it.

Instead of hating the people you think are war-makers, hate the appetites and disorder in your own soul, which are the causes of war. If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed - but hate these things in yourself, not in another.

No mud can soil us but the mud we throw.

Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action. If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains.

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.

Maturity: knowing where you're crazy, trying to warn others of the fact and striving to keep yourself under control.

Make the decision that you'll no longer use excuses to keep you from what you know is in your best interest. Today, act on something you've always avoided and explained away with a convenient excuse. Make a phone call you've been putting off, write a letter to a friend, put on a pair of walking shoes and go for a stroll, clean out your closet—do something you've been justifying not doing with excuses.

We aren't, as human beings, very good at acting in our best interest.

I try to be a good person. I know what my downfalls are, so that's a good thing.

To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

I take responsibility for myself and what I do now.

I am president and do not have the right to give in to emotions. I have bad moods, very bad moods, but I never feel despair.

I find it valuable to watch what I do. I like to know when I'm making a choice if it actually works or not.

Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of yourself.

I know that I'm definitely not a big big snob, and I know that at the times that I am a diva I know I'm being a diva. It's kind of annoying to know that you are. Because it's a person I do not want to be. So I'm trying my best not to become a jerk.

You can never control other people. You can only control yourself. I have definitely learned that.