Augusten Burroughs Quotes

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.

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

Don't lie about it. You made a mistake. Admit it and move on. Just don't do it again. Ever

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.

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.'

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'm not blaming my mom for my life because I am responsible for me, and nobody can change me or ruin me easier than I can.

One day I realized that I wasn't getting anywhere by blaming other people for my circumstances. I finally understood: Even if you feel someone has wronged you or owes you something, no one is going to give you anything for free.

Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.

It was a question of helping a man prepare in the way that suits him best. The theory is if you give a man responsibility for his own actions, then it is up to him to accept that responsibility.

And it's not a finger-pointing issue to me; I take as much responsibility as I can. It was more just me not really knowing what I wanted to do and how to get it done.

A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

We need to learn from our experiences and take responsibilities for our actions and drive on.

A lot of times, people make other people responsible for their joy: 'You're not making me happy, you're not doing this, you're not doing that.'

When given the opportunity to fail myself or fail someone else, I choose to fail myself.

I have a point to prove. Sometimes you have to repair things, and maybe I have a little bit that I need to repair.

I don't believe in luck. Everything is our doing or undoing. If something doesn't come out right, then as a director, you have to take full responsibility. You can't just say, 'No, I gave this job to the music supervisor. They promised me they would do it, and they didn't do it.' You can't blame anyone else.

We must look within ourselves, become responsible and provide fresh solutions if we ever want to do more than complain,or make excuses.

If a man coaches himself, then he has only himself to blame when he is beaten.

But remember this: in the final analysis, you can believe in your dream, you can be taught, supported, motivated, and loved by others, but ultimately, your success depends on you. You must take responsibility for your body, your mind, and for your character.

You can't grow and learn if your focus is on finding someone else to blame instead of looking at your own shortcomings.

It’s about getting to a point in your life where you’re ready to let go and move on and become the better version of yourself.

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.

How in the end can one possibly hold anyone responsible for our own underdeveloped visions, or undeveloped strength of character?

I will chide no breather in the world but myself, against whom I know most faults.