Robert Fulghum Quotes

No one gets away with anything, ever, so take responsibility for your own life.

You can't depend on the man who made the mess to clean it up.

Failure is an opportunity. If you blame someone else, there is no end to the blame. Therefore the Master fulfills her own obligations and corrects her own mistakes. She does what she needs to do and demands nothing of others.

A martial artist has to take responsibility for himself and accept the consequences of his own doing.

No more excuses. I can't blame anything on my parents. I'm responsible for my mistakes and my choices.

Maturity begins on the day we accept responsibility for our own actions.

I'm not one to blame anyone else for anything. And I don't think anyone else should either.

I think that's the moment when we all grow up, when we stop blaming our parents for the messes we've made out of our lives and start owning the consequences of our actions.

You see, I have in my teaching - I always say I've done it for a hundred years and have had thousands of students - I have always spoken against just falling onto your knees for so-called accidents, I mean a result you are not responsible for.

If you don't do your part, don't blame God.

Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.

It would be dangerous territory if I wasn't practising what I preach which is to always accept responsibility, always accept the consequences of your actions.

I'm always gonna be crazy about dishes in the sink. Crazy! Because it's a sign of disrespect. It says that you think someone else is going to clean up after you: that you're not prepared to do it yourself.

As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.

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

It's about you. If you win, it's you; if you lose, it's you. Black and white. Nowhere to hide.

You can't talk your way out of problems you behave yourself into.

I learned in an extremely hard way that the accountability falls with me.

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

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

Everyone has to make their own decisions. I still believe in that. You just have to be able to accept the consequences without complaining.

I'm really only responsible for my own actions.

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

It's not my style to blame anybody else.

Our dad taught us not to be a loafer and a slough-off, that you don't blame somebody else for your misfortunes.