Ray Charles Quotes

It's not my style to blame anybody else.

In the commission of evil, fear no man so much as thyself; another is but one witness against thee, thou art a thousand; another thou mayest avoid, thyself thou canst not. Wickedness is its own punishment.

I have a lot of friends who are trying to clean up their act, or that are still making trouble for themselves, so I'm definitely well-versed on what goes on in the mind and the heart of a person who self-destructs as their coping mechanism, and also what they're like when you take their preferred substance away.

The preacher's sharpest and strongest preaching should be to himself. His most difficult, delicate, laborious, and thorough work must be with himself.

An artist is his own fault.

Showing your life so public is a mistake sometimes, but I blame myself as much as anyone else.

We have met the enemy and he is us.

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

I know I have only myself to blame for all the problems I've had in my life.

Nothing can work me damage except myself. The harm that I sustain I carry about with me, and never am a real sufferer but by my own fault.

God defend me from myself.

We are the source of our problems not mysterious sinister foreigners overseas.

At the end of the day, I feel like I have no one to blame but myself if I'm not satisfied with how I look on the runway.

I don't need to be made to look evil. I can do that on my own.

Mostly the problems when I was down were caused by myself. There were times when I was not responsible enough or decisive enough.

There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

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 superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others.

A lot of times, women complain about men around them. It's not always someone else's fault. If you're the common denominator in 57 different relationships that didn't work out, then maybe, just maybe... it's you!

At the end of the day, you're responsible for yourself and your actions and that's all you can control. So rather than be frustrated with what you can't control, try to fix the things you can.

I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.

You can't be responsible for the way people respond to you. You're only responsible for yourself.

Your best friend and worst enemy are both in this room right now. It's not your neighbor right or left - and it's not God or the devil - it's you.

Every faculty and virtue I possess can be used as an instrument with which to worry myself.

If I complain about a traffic jam, I have no one to blame but myself.