Boris Yeltsin Quotes

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.

I am always the one who is responsible for anything bad that happens in Indian cricket. Everything that happens is because of me.

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.

Take responsibility for your last bad decision, and then let it go. Don't blame others or make excuses for yourself.

The blame is on me...I knew you were trouble when you walked in.

Never accept the blame for what evil people do. We are all responsible for our own actions." She was lecturing him, so she stopped. "Sorry. Hang around with Bran too long, and see if you don’t start passing around the Marrok’s advice as if he were Confucius.

Leadership is taking responsibility while others are making excuses.

When the need arises - and it does - you must be able to shoot your own dog. Don't farm it out — that doesn't make it nicer, it makes it worse.

A man should not play the coward to his deeds. He should not repudiate them once he has performed them. Pangs of conscience are indecent.

You have yourself to blame.

There are some things we should feel guilty about, but the guilt feelings should attach to the deed, not to the doer.

A weakened sense of responsibility does not weaken the fact of responsibility.

The fault is as great as hee that is faulty.

Self-respecting men and women think about the consequences of their actions-and are willing to take responsibility for them.

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

How innocent we are of our mistakes and how we responsible we are for them.

There is nothing an addict likes more, or that serves as better pretext for continuing his present way of life, than to place the weight of responsibility for his situation somewhere other than on his own decisions.

I made the decision. I'm accountable.

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.'

What influences our behavior, and what our level of responsibility is, are very complex issues. And anytime we try to make this simplistic, we don't serve people well.

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.

We are responsible for actions performed in response to circumstances for which we are not responsible.

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 ways that people avoid taking responsibility for their role in their own pain is what I call the BPs - blame and projection.