Daniel Henninger Quotes

Be your own worst critic. When things go wrong it's tempting to shift the blame. Don't. Accept responsibility. People will appreciate it, and you will find out what you're capable of.

The fault is as great as hee that is faulty.

People of poor character tend to blame their choices on circumstances. Ethical people make good choices regardless of circumstances. If they make enough good choices, they begin to create better conditions for themselves.

God will judge people on the basis of what they did in light of what they knew.

Although my doctors informed me that I suffered a cerebral concussion, as well as shock, I do not seek to escape responsibility for my actions by placing the blame either on the physical and emotional trauma brought on by the accident, or on anyone else. I regard as indefensible the fact that I did not report the accident to the police immediately.

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.

Until you can become accountable to yourself and only yourself, you're probably not going to live a fully vital life. So much of literature is about accountability. The moral issues in most novels are about people becoming responsible for their own behaviour. One of the forces against being responsible for your own behaviour is the force of the past, in the way that the past tries to form you.

The absent partie is still faultie.

Man is responsible not only for every deed, but also for every idle word and thought.

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.

Accidents don't happen to people who take accidents as a personal insult.

I don't blame people for their mistakes, but I do ask that they pay for them.

If you should see people in a room, you would not think that you had made those people, or that you were responsible for them.

My actions are my only true belongings. I cannot escape the consequences of my actions. My actions are the ground on which I stand.

We have failed to practise ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people.

To take responsibility for one's own actions, good and bad, is something else.

How we love to blame others for our misfortunes! Almost every individual who has lost money in stock speculation has on the tip of his tongue an explanation which he trots out to show that it wasn't his own fault at all.... Hardly one loser has the manliness to say frankly, "I was wrong.

People who won't help others in trouble "because they got into trouble through their own fault" would probably not throw a lifeline to a drowning person until they learned whether that person fell in through his or her own fault or not.

You will look in vain to see Donald Trump ever taking responsibility for anybody and apologize.

People need responsibility. They resist assuming it, but they cannot get along without it.

The words It's not my fault! should never again come from your mouth. The words It's not my fault! have been symbolically written on the gravestones of unsuccessful people ever since Eve took her first bite of the apple.

We can all control our own destiny. And I think sometimes it's a copout to say, "Well, it's this person's fault or another person's fault."

You are responsible for what you have done and the people whom you have influenced.

I take responsibility for what happened at Enron, both good and bad. But I cannot take responsibility for criminal conduct that I was unaware of.