John Burroughs Quotes

You cannot become a power in your community nor achieve enduring success in any worthy undertaking until you become big enough to blame yourself for your own mistakes and reverses.

An artist is his own fault.

A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.

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

A lot of actors do that - they blame their failure on their agents or their photos. But that is just putting off the real issues.

You are not a failure until you start blaming others for your mistakes

Stand up, be bold, and take the blame on your own shoulders. Do not go about throwing mud at others; for all the faults you suffer from, you are the sole and only cause.

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.

Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures.

Generally, I like making my own mistakes and learning from them because that's what I think life is about.

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

This is my journey. If I fall, I have to pick myself up. If I'm not getting the playing time I want, it's up to me to figure out why.

Nine out of ten people who are failing blame their failure on somebody else. And that is the common denominator of failure.

You have to make the mistakes and have those failures in order to learn from them and grow and improve... But for me, the best way to combat any of that beating yourself up or overanalysing, the most important part is always to be prepared to the best of your ability.

You are responsible for your life. You can't keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on.

People say 'Poor guy.' That insults me. I despise sympathy. So I screwed up. I made some mistakes. 'Poor guy,' like I'm some victim. There's nothing poor about me.

As long as you try your best, you are never a failure. That is, unless you blame others.

No man has a chance to enjoy permanent success until he begins to look in a mirror for the real cause of all his mistakes.

Your failures won't hurt you until you start blaming them on others.

It is the part of an uneducated person to blame others where he himself fares ill; to blame himself is the part of one whose education has begun; to blame neither another nor his own self is the part of one whose education is already complete.

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 take responsibility for my successes as well as my failures. But when I look at my professional mistakes, I'm always left with the feeling that maybe I should have done more.

In time, she learned to develop her own opinion of the people that she worked for, and she got stronger. Think she's now much stronger. In the beginning she wanted to believe she was strong but sometimes she faltered.

When you fail by your own standards, it's a form of success.

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.'