Sydney J. Harris Quotes

Don't try to blame the rest of the world. The blame only lies with you. Recognize that immediately.

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.

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.

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.

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

The most important words that have helped me in life, when things have gone right or when things have gone wrong are 'accept responsibility.'

I think that's the moment when we all grow up, when we stop blaming our parents for the messes we've made out of our lives and start owning the consequences of our actions.

I take responsibility for myself and what I do now.

I take complete and sole responsibility for my present situation.

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.

It's not my style to blame anybody else.

I have respect for my son because he had sense enough to take responsibility for his own actions.

America wasn't made on blame; it was made on responsibility. Take off the training wheels in life and decide to take responsibility for your actions.

The mistakes you make now count. Not for everything, and not forever. But they do matter, and they shape you.If you take nothing else from what I've been through, at least remember this: make your choices well. Because you'll always be accountable for them. That's what being an adult is all about.

All real difficulty stems from no responsibility. Full responsibility is not fault; it is recognition of being cause.

Maturity comes not with age but with the acceptance of responsibility. You are only young once but immaturity can last a lifetime!

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

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

If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.

Losers blame their parents; Failures blame their kids.

Blaming is so much easier than taking responsibility, because if you take responsibility … then you might be to blame.

I feel like I'm 18, with the maturity level of like a 14-year-old. I'm still the same goofball; I'm still in college, as far as I'm concerned.

I have a daughter, she's twenty years old.

To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

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.