Chogyam Trungpa Quotes

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.

Accept the terrible responsibility of life with eyes wide open.

I take responsibility for myself and what I do now.

One person's embarrassment is another person's accountability.

Somewhere there's a score being kept, so you have an obligation to live life as well as you can, be as engaged as you can.

I take complete and sole responsibility for my present situation.

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.

Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.

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

The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up.

You make mistakes, but I don't have any regrets. I'm the kind of person who takes responsibility for it and deals with it. I learn from everything I do. I work very hard, I have so many things going on in my life. Get to know me and see who I am.

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.

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

Everybody is responsible for their own actions. It's easy to point the finger at somebody else, but a real man, a real woman, a real person knows when it's time to take the blame and when to take responsibility for their own actions.

One thing I realized, I was making too many excuses and not taking responsibility for how I was playing.

Remember, you are only committed to what you confess.

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.

I've really learned not to try to take responsibility for all things. And to keep my side of the street clean.

I've always said, rather glibly, that the message of my career has been about individualism, about getting to know yourself and taking responsibility, not just for what you do, but what you think.

Maturity begins on the day we accept responsibility for our own actions.

It is the part of an uneducated person to blame others where he himself fares ill; to blame himself is the part of one whose education has begun; to blame neither another nor his own self is the part of one whose education is already complete.

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

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.

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.