Gary Zukav Quotes

Placing the blame or judgment on someone else leaves you powerless to change your experience; taking responsibility for your beliefs and judgments gives you the power to change them

Whatever happens, take responsibility.

I take responsibility for myself and what I do now.

We must wake ourselves up! Or somebody else will take our place, and bear our cross, and thereby rob us of our crown.

I don't think any one person is the cause of all of someone else's problems.

It was a question of helping a man prepare in the way that suits him best. The theory is if you give a man responsibility for his own actions, then it is up to him to accept that responsibility.

People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.

When you blame others, you give up your power to change.

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

It is for your good, consider, that we publish this little journal. Sleep no more. It is time, wake up. No one is there to speak for you.

It's not my style to blame anybody else.

I don't believe in luck. Everything is our doing or undoing. If something doesn't come out right, then as a director, you have to take full responsibility. You can't just say, 'No, I gave this job to the music supervisor. They promised me they would do it, and they didn't do it.' You can't blame anyone else.

Those that say that individuals are not capable of changing anything are only looking for excuses.

If you continue to blame other people for “making” you feel guilty, they still have power over you, and you are saying that you will only feel good when they stop doing that. You are giving them control over your life. Stop blaming other people.

You might be locked in a world not of your own making, her eyes said, but you still have a claim on how it is shaped. You still have responsibilities.

Take responsiblilty for yourself because no one's going to take responsibility for you.

There is nothing wrong with underlining personal agency, but there is something unfair about using personal responsibility as a basis for assigning blame while simultaneously denying those who are being blamed the opportunity to exert agency in their lives

You stood over me and you made a promise to me, as sacred as any vow. And I can understand why you're angry, but you can't blame me. You can't hate me for taking your word.

To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself of responsibility.

Peak performance begins with your taking complete responsibility for your life and everything that happens to you.

You only get to be a victim once. After that, you're a volunteer.

Our lives are the results of our choices. To blame and accuse other people, the environment, or other extrinsic factors is to choose to empower those things to control us.

We cannot have a world where everyone is a victim. "I'm this way because my father made me this way. I'm this way because my husband made me this way." Yes, we are indeed formed by traumas that happen to us. But you must take charge, you must take over, you are responsible.

Blaming something else makes that something else cause; and as that cause takes on power, the individual in the same act loses control and becomes effect.

If you're blaming something or someone else for the way you are, then that person, those people, those circumstances or those energies, are going to have to change in order for you to get better; that's most likely never going to happen. It's also a way to manipulate other people.