Shelby Foote Quotes

There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.

I behaved worse than anybody for 15 years, and you have to pay the price for that. I used to blame other people, then therapy made me realise I had to change.

I am ready to accept all accusations, allegations, anger - but I have to succeed.

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

It's too easy to blame other people in football.

I think that fans are always looking for someone to blame. Wouldn't it be nice if they looked in the mirror?

You must accept responsibility for your actions, but not the credit for your achievements.

When have you ever heard the United States take the blame for anything?

You ask me why I air your dirty laundry, but you do not ask yourself why you soil it to begin with.

I feel that if I absolve myself and say it was the Astros' fault I was bad in Game 7, in the World Series, I can't develop as a person.

You cannot always blame others if things go wrong.

One thing I realized, I was making too many excuses and not taking responsibility for how I was playing.

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

It's easy to blame other people when things aren't going well.

As an adult, I can't blame my parents any more.

Have I said dumb things? Absolutely, who hasn't? But I have never backed away from being called out on something I did or said wrong.

Psychologically, it's always more pleasurable to blame others for our problems than it is to acknowledge our own responsibility.

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.

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.

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.

We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune.

Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures.

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

I take ownership of every mistake I've ever made.