Samuel Smiles Quotes

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

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

Nobody's a better critic of myself than me, and I try to do the best I can.

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

It is the act of an ill-instructed man to blame others for his own bad condition; it is the act of one who has begun to be instructed, to lay the blame on himself; and of one whose instruction is completed, neither to blame another, nor himself.

The imperfections of others never release us from the need to work on our own shortcomings.

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.

I behaved worse than anybody for 15 years, and you have to pay the price for that. I used to blame other people, then therapy made me realise I had to change.

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

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 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.

You make mistakes, but I don't have any regrets. I'm the kind of person who takes responsibility for it and deals with it. I learn from everything I do. I work very hard, I have so many things going on in my life. Get to know me and see who I am.

At the end of the day, you're responsible for yourself and your actions and that's all you can control. So rather than be frustrated with what you can't control, try to fix the things you can.

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

Stop blaming the world—look inside!

All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for... reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration.

I'm hard on myself, like, 'Oh, why did you say that?' But it helps me grow.

Be your own biggest critic. Don't let someone else beat you to constructive criticism.

Self-evaluation is hard, and it starts with me, and it falls on my shoulders, and I'm responsible. But at the end of the day, you are what you are.

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.

I realize everything's on me as far as what kind of player, person, and student I'm going to be.

I think sometimes it's about just finding the measuring stick that's different than the one the world puts on you. It's finding the one in which you're held accountable and how you hold each other accountable; what a good job looks like in a particular situation and how to be better at your job than you were yesterday.