Marcus Smart Quotes

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.

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.

If you don't accept responsibility for your own actions then you are forever chained to a position of defense.

All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for external reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration. You may succeed in making another feel guilty about something by blaming him, but you won't succeed in changing whatever it is about you that is making you unhappy.

I take responsibility for myself and what I do now.

I take complete and sole responsibility for my present situation.

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.

It's not my style to blame anybody else.

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

You cannot always blame others if things go wrong.

I can speak for my own actions.

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.

It's easy to blame other people when things aren't going well.

Don't try to blame the rest of the world. The blame only lies with you. Recognize that immediately.

The most important words that have helped me in life, when things have gone right or when things have gone wrong are 'accept responsibility.'

By blaming others, we fail to find the real solutions to our problems and we do not carry out our own responsibilities.

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.

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.

One of the things you learn in rehab is that you're responsible for your own actions.

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

An artist is his own fault.

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.