Paul Gascoigne Quotes

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

You have to take responsibility for how you act. You can't fix everyone.

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.

Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.

One of the most essential yet the hardest truths that I have had to learn is that every person should be his own hardest task-master.

One of the greatest challenges in creating a joyful, peaceful and abundant life is taking responsibility for what you do and how you do it. As long as you can blame someone else, be angry with someone else, point the finger at someone else, you are not taking responsibility for your life.

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.

Until you are willing to accept total and complete responsibility for every aspect of your life, your life will keep sending you experiences designed to get your attention.

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

I look at modern life and I see people not taking responsibility for their lives. The temptation to blame, to find external causes to one's own issues is something that is particularly modern. I know that personally I find that sense of responsibility interesting.

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.

You can never control other people. You can only control yourself. I have definitely learned that.

Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be.

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.

I used to think that if someone gained their weight back, it was my fault, but all I can do is be God's motivator and try to instill the motivation in others so they do it themselves.

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.

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.

There's a need for accepting responsibility - for a person's life and making choices that are not just ones for immediate short-term comfort. You need to make an investment, and the investment is in health and education.

In order to be responsible, you need some discipline in your life.

We're going to be human, and we are going to make mistakes, but you really should understand the power that you have and embrace it in a positive way.

I like people who take responsibility for their lives.

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 willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

As wonderful as they were, my parents didn't teach me anything about self-discipline, concentration, patience, or focus. If I hadn't had a family myself, I probably never would've done anything. Marriage taught me responsibility.