Ruth St. Denis Quotes

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.

You are fully responsible for everything you are, everything you have and everything you become.

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.

Placing the blame is a bad habit, but taking the blame is a sure builder of character

Every man is the architect of his own life. He builds it just the way he wants it. However, after he has built what he wants, he sometimes decides that he doesn't like what he has built and looks for someone or something to blame instead of changing himself.

As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.

The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.

Education must be based on the certainty that faults cannot be atoned for or blotted out, but must always have their consequences. At the same time, there is the other certainty that, through progressive evolution, by slow adaptation to the conditions of environment, they may be transformed.

An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual.

I have hurt my community. I have to look myself in the mirror and know that, and I have to own that in order to grow past that.

Nobody's a better critic of myself than me, and I try to do the best I can.

Any damage that's been done, you have to fix yourself because it needs fixing and there is nobody else to do the work. Blame may well be justified, but it's not going to move you forward in your life.

You're responsible for yourself. You messed up your life, and it's up to you to fix it. No one else is going to do it for you -- for any of you.

You are responsible for your life. You can't keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on.

You'll never get ahead by blaming your problems on other people.

You can't grow and learn if your focus is on finding someone else to blame instead of looking at your own shortcomings.

The real fault is to have faults and not amend them.

I don't associate with people who blame the world for their problems. You are your problem. You are also your solution.

As long as you try your best, you are never a failure. That is, unless you blame others.

If you're blaming something or someone else for the way you are, then that person, those people, those circumstances or those energies, are going to have to change in order for you to get better; that's most likely never going to happen. It's also a way to manipulate other people.

You are not a failure until you start blaming others for your mistakes

Until you can become accountable to yourself and only yourself, you're probably not going to live a fully vital life. So much of literature is about accountability. The moral issues in most novels are about people becoming responsible for their own behaviour. One of the forces against being responsible for your own behaviour is the force of the past, in the way that the past tries to form you.

Not to alter one's faults is to be faulty indeed.

Your failures won't hurt you until you start blaming them on others.