Joyce Meyer Quotes

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

Psychologically, it's always more pleasurable to blame others for our problems than it is to acknowledge our own responsibility.

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.

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 stand by every decision I've made throughout my career and my life, good or bad, up or down.

Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures.

You know, I'd like to sit here and blame everybody else for my trouble. I just can't do that. I can't find it in myself to do it.

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

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.

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.

Stop blaming the world—look inside!

Sometimes you have to blame yourself before you can blame others.

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

If you don't accept responsibility for your own actions then you are forever chained to a position of defense.

It's sometimes too easy to point fingers when circumstances dramatically go awry, but as an addict, I'm ultimately responsible for my own decisions, no matter how benign or tragic the consequences.

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.

In terms of my career, I am glad about the steps and moves that I have made. Because I would not want to blame anyone else but myself if anything goes wrong.

One person's embarrassment is another person's accountability.

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.

The small companies who feel that the majors are a threat, or are predators, will use that as an excuse for their eventual downfall. Don't blame others for your own inadequacies.

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.

When your future arrives, will you blame your past?

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

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

I'm the kind of person that believes that I would like to be evaluated by my entire career and my entire life, not two words that I would misspeak and then later apologize for.