Robert Collier Quotes

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

You know, I'd like to sit here and blame everybody else for my trouble. I just can't do that. I can't find it in myself to do it.

An artist is his own fault.

The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others.

The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices, every one of them, are leading you inexorably to either success or failure, however you define those terms.

Some of us have become so addicted to pointing fingers at others for all the wrong that happens in our lives that self-assessment has become synonymous with blaming the victim.

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!

Sometimes you have to blame yourself before you can blame others.

People really haven't seen me in good shape. I understand that. I created that by myself. There is no one else to blame but me.

You cannot become a power in your community nor achieve enduring success in any worthy undertaking until you become big enough to blame yourself for your own mistakes and reverses.

I take responsibility for my successes as well as my failures. But when I look at my professional mistakes, I'm always left with the feeling that maybe I should have done more.

The world you live in is 100 percent your own responsibility. If you don't like your world, it doesn't work to say, "Well, it's my mother's fault. She taught me how to think."

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

I take responsibility for myself and what I do now.

In terms of my career, I am glad about the steps and moves that I have made. Because I would not want to blame anyone else but myself if anything goes wrong.

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.

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.

Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures.