Andy Stanley Quotes

I'm a grown man. I don't point fingers.

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.

To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

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

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

I don't think any one person is the cause of all of someone else's problems.

You ask me why I air your dirty laundry, but you do not ask yourself why you soil it to begin with.

You can blame the other guy for saying it, or you can look at yourself and say, 'I must have contributed to this.'

It's human nature to blame someone else for your shortcomings or upsets.

Own your problems.

I feel that if I absolve myself and say it was the Astros' fault I was bad in Game 7, in the World Series, I can't develop as a person.

There is no point in pointing fingers because there are three fingers pointing back at you.

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

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.

People hold me accountable. Before I would push people away, but that's not a way to be successful.

We must look for our own blame to find our own personality.

We are almost always guilty of the hate we encounter.

I'm pretty good at taking accountability now, and I never did anything to deserve that. It was a really lousy thing for her to do.

Ask God to show you any changes you need to make in your relationships. And make sure your closest relationship continues to be with Jesus Himself.

I've really learned not to try to take responsibility for all things. And to keep my side of the street clean.

Superior people take both the credit and the blame for everything that happens to them.

An ignorant person is inclined to blame others for his own misfortune. To blame oneself is proof of progress. But the wise man never has to blame another or himself.

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.

One must first learn to live oneself before one blames others.

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.