Charles R. Swindoll Quotes

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

We have to look in the mirror first. What are we doing? How can we make a change? It always starts with looking in the mirror. Every individual can. Every individual can make a difference either by proactively doing something positive or by doing nothing. That's a decision, too.

If you aren’t where you want to be or you haven’t achieved all you hope to achieve, the reason most likely resides not around you but within you. Take responsibility and then take action.

There is no one that can share your responsibility. It it is your responsibility you must carry it on and you must be responsible for your actions. At the end of the day we all are being challenged, sooner or later, by our destiny. And it's up to us to make all the difference in this life. If not you, who else?

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.'

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.

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.

I know I'm responsible for not having got the kind of roles that I'd have liked to. '

Hypocrites in the Church? Yes, and in the lodge and at the home. Don't hunt through the Church for a hypocrite. Go home and look in the mirror. Hypocrites? Yes. See that you make the number one less.

My life motto is 'Do my best, so that I can't blame myself for anything.'

Initially, I know that I handled it worse than she did and I think partly because I've always been... every bit of adversity I've faced up until the last year and a half is adversity I brought upon myself - or the opposing teams have given me.

We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

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.

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.

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

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

I enjoyed the position I was in as a tennis player. I was to blame when I lost. I was to blame when I won. And I really like that, because I played soccer a lot too, and I couldn't stand it when I had to blame it on the goalkeeper.

And it's not a finger-pointing issue to me; I take as much responsibility as I can. It was more just me not really knowing what I wanted to do and how to get it done.

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

Find fault with thyself rather than with others.

You can't be responsible for the way people respond to you. You're only responsible for yourself.

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

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

One man can make a difference and every man should try.

Stop blaming the world—look inside!