Deepak Chopra Quotes

While I fully recognize I had made a mistake in the whole relationship, and I'll call it a human error, I hesitate to call myself a victim because I strongly believe one should take responsibility for their actions.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

The only person who takes the full responsibility why I leave Man United is myself. I am the one to make the choice.

Usually, making excuses is just something we can get away with, rather than challenging or changing ourselves. If you want to change and you want your life to work at a level you've never had before, then take responsibility for it.

Forgiving yourself, not guilt, increases personal accountability.

You have yourself to blame.

Blame is a neat little device that you can use whenever you don't want to take responsibility for something in your life. Use it and you will avoid all risks and impede your own growth.

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 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.

I take complete and sole responsibility for my present situation.

When your future arrives, will you blame your past?

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.

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

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.

So after a while, if people won't accept your excuses, you stop looking for them.

People blame their environment. There is only one person to blame - and only one - themselves.

It's not my style to blame anybody else.

Each individual has got to look themselves in the mirror and try and see what they can do better. Period. Point blank.

I'm a grown man. I don't point fingers.