Eric Hoffer Quotes

I try to be a good person. I know what my downfalls are, so that's a good thing.

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.

You know, I'd like to sit here and blame everybody else for my trouble. I just can't do that. I can't find it in myself to do it.

Find fault with thyself rather than with others.

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.

To take responsibility for one's own actions, good and bad, is something else.

Stop looking for a scapegoat in your life but be willing to face the truth within yourself & right your own wrongs

You've got to demand the truth from yourself.

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.

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 stand by every decision I've made throughout my career and my life, good or bad, up or down.

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

A lot of comedians, when they have a bad gig, will blame everything but themselves. They'll blame the crowd, or the room was wrong, it had a weird vibe, or the promoter promoted a weird atmosphere.

I take ownership of every mistake I've ever made.

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

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

We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.

The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices, every one of them, are leading you inexorably to either success or failure, however you define those terms.

People blame their environment. There is only one person to blame - and only one - themselves.

What, pray, does it profit a man to teach others, and to be prating always about virtue, in high-sounding words, if he fails to give heed to his own instructions?

My power for good, whatever it may, would be gone if I didn’t try to live up to the doctrines I have tried to preach.

Stop blaming the world—look inside!

I take accountability for being dumb and irresponsible.

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

I believe acknowledging our own mistakes is half the problem solved.