Helen H. Gardener Quotes

Do not make excuses, whether it's your fault or not.

The words It's not my fault! should never again come from your mouth. The words It's not my fault! have been symbolically written on the gravestones of unsuccessful people ever since Eve took her first bite of the apple.

When you blame yourself, you learn from it. If you blame someone else, you don't learn nothing, cause hey, it's not your fault, it's his fault, over there.

I'm not really in the excuse business.

If you want to use a cliche you must take full responsibility for it yourself and not try to fob it off on anon., or on society.

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.

Leadership is taking responsibility while others are making excuses.

If you have a problem with my answer that's your problem, not my problem.

I am here to accept responsibility for that which I did. I will not accept responsibility for that which I did not do.

If it's never our fault, we can't take responsibility for it. If we can't take responsibility for it, we'll always be its victim.

There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.

So after a while, if people won't accept your excuses, you stop looking for them.

When I was younger, I was always taught not to make excuses.

It's not my style to blame anybody else.

If you start to pass blame or responsibility on to others, that's when I'm going to start to get really angry.

Making excuses is not my profile or that of Madrid.

I learned a long time ago that no one wants to hear excuses.

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.

I'm not the person that when he has an off shooting game is going to make excuses.

When you go in there and fight, you pretty much relinquish and give up the right to make any excuses about something.

Everybody is looking for a reason to not to take responsibility for their own actions in hand.

Such is our need to shower blame on some distant entity when it is we who lack the courage to face up to what is there before us.

Blaming others is excusing yourself.

All real difficulty stems from no responsibility. Full responsibility is not fault; it is recognition of being cause.

Start with the notion that yours is the sole responsibility unless there's powerful evidence to the contrary