Dante Alighieri 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.

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.

We must look within ourselves, become responsible and provide fresh solutions if we ever want to do more than complain,or make excuses.

...Stop blaming me, thinking I'm the problem. If you think I'm the problem, then you have to change me. If you realize that you're the problem, then you can change yourself, learn something and grow wiser. Most people want everyone else in the world to change themselves. Let me tell you, it's easier to change yourself than everyone else.

It ain't the rain, the snow, the boss, the competition, the spouse, the money, the car, the job, or the kids - it's you! And it always has been.

I will chide no breather in the world but myself, against whom I know most faults.

Happy people build their inner world; unhappy people blame their outer world.

Blame neither man, nor God, nor anyone in the world. When you find yourselves suffering, blame yourselves, and try to do better.

The world "out there" won't change until the world "in here" does.

The hope of the world lies in what one demands, not of others, but of oneself.

In life, you can blame a lot of people and you can wallow in self-pity, or you can pick yourself up and say, 'Listen, I have to be responsible for myself.'

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

I can't judge the way other people behave. I can only look at myself.

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.

I take responsibility for myself and what I do now.

There is no public out there who needs to change. It's each one of us.

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.

The knowledge that we are responsible for living the life we have is our most powerful tool.

I'm not blaming my mom for my life because I am responsible for me, and nobody can change me or ruin me easier than I can.

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

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

All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.

The only person who needs to know about failure is yourself.

You've got to take responsibility for your own actions. We all know people who reach rock bottom. However much that they're told that what they're doing is harming their own life or whatever, you cannot make someone do it unless that person reaches the point where they know that they have to deal with it themselves.

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