Chogyam Trungpa Quotes

I take very seriously this notion that my highest job is to live a better life, all the time and to the best of my ability. I need to monitor my own progress - take my own inventory - and clean my own closet. I am trying to do all that.

So then, when I speak to you, I speak to myself. If I seem to warn or to rebuke you, it is not so much you, as myself, to whom the warning or the rebuke is addressed.

The real fault is to have faults and not amend them.

Everywhere man blames nature and fate, yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character, and passions, his mistakes, and weaknesses."--Democritus An Abundance of Katherines---John Green

I can't judge the way other people behave. I can only look at myself.

I take responsibility for myself and what I do now.

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.

Personal responsibility is not only recognizing the errors of our ways. Personal responsibility lies in our willingness and ability to correct those errors individually and collectively.

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.

I put more pressure on myself than anybody in this world.

At the end of the day, you're responsible for yourself and your actions and that's all you can control. So rather than be frustrated with what you can't control, try to fix the things you can.

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

We can't go out and tell ourselves we've done good if we haven't.

Stop blaming the world—look inside!

This year, or this month, or, more likely, this very day, we have failed to practice ourselves the kind of behavior we expect from other people.

I like someone who's focused and can tell me what they've done well and not well and who's very open, honest, and self-aware.

Be your own biggest critic. Don't let someone else beat you to constructive criticism.

Golf's weird because it's individual, and there's nobody to blame but yourself, but then, golfers also have this it's-everybody-else's-fault thing where you don't take ownership.

Self-evaluation is hard, and it starts with me, and it falls on my shoulders, and I'm responsible. But at the end of the day, you are what you are.

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.

Nobody's a better critic of myself than me, and I try to do the best I can.

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

I wanted to look in the mirror and be accountable to only one person. The only person is me, and that's the only thing that drives me. The only person I'm in competition with is myself.

No mud can soil us but the mud we throw.