Holly Lisle Quotes

We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility.

If it's never our fault, we can't take responsibility for it. If we can't take responsibility for it, we'll always be its victim.

We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.

People blame their environment. There is only one person to blame - and only one - themselves.

Blame is a neat little device that you can use whenever you don't want to take responsibility for something in your life. Use it and you will avoid all risks and impede your own growth.

I look at modern life and I see people not taking responsibility for their lives. The temptation to blame, to find external causes to one's own issues is something that is particularly modern. I know that personally I find that sense of responsibility interesting.

I take responsibility for myself and what I do now.

As long as you blame someone or something else - something outside you that's bigger than you are - as the source of your problems, the problems won't get solved.

I take complete and sole responsibility for my present situation.

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.

Everybody is responsible for their own actions. It's easy to point the finger at somebody else, but a real man, a real woman, a real person knows when it's time to take the blame and when to take responsibility for their own actions.

Whenever you think something or some person is ruining your life, it's you. A victimization mentality is so debilitating.

I will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions.

Every man is the architect of his own life. He builds it just the way he wants it. However, after he has built what he wants, he sometimes decides that he doesn't like what he has built and looks for someone or something to blame instead of changing himself.

When you blame yourself, you learn from it. If you blame someone else, you don't learn nothing, cause hey, it's not your fault, it's his fault, over there.

You have to take responsibility for how you act. You can't fix everyone.

There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.

Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.

Stop blaming the world—look inside!

It's not my style to blame anybody else.

People really haven't seen me in good shape. I understand that. I created that by myself. There is no one else to blame but me.

The only person who takes the full responsibility why I leave Man United is myself. I am the one to make the choice.

One thing I realized, I was making too many excuses and not taking responsibility for how I was playing.

Looking for approval or blaming others or feeling like a victim. Whenever I feel myself doing that I try to stop and see myself as someone who's a creator in more ways than just what the word typically means.