Richard Ford Quotes

I will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions.

We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

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

Stop blaming the world—look inside!

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.

I take responsibility for myself and what I do now.

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.

A person's life is of their own making, and I take full responsibility for mine.

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.

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 are ultimately alone in that we are ultimately responsible for ourselves.

If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.

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.

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.

I am responsible for no one but myself.

All of the characters in my films, they share one commonality. It doesn't matter whether they are good or bad, it doesn't matter whether they are smart or stupid, these characters all take responsibility for their own behavior. I'm much the same.

An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual.

The more control you have over your life, the more responsible you feel for your own success - or failure.

That person has to be accountable for himself. I think that's what we have to do in society today is to be accountable for yourself. I think we have the tendency to always want to live someone else's life.

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

I have hurt my community. I have to look myself in the mirror and know that, and I have to own that in order to grow past that.

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.

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