Napoleon Hill Quotes

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.

A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

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

The best comics enlist you to take accountability for who you are, whether you like it or not.

A lot of actors do that - they blame their failure on their agents or their photos. But that is just putting off the real issues.

It is the act of an ill-instructed man to blame others for his own bad condition; it is the act of one who has begun to be instructed, to lay the blame on himself; and of one whose instruction is completed, neither to blame another, nor himself.

Your failures won't hurt you until you start blaming them on others.

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.

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.

Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures.

An artist is his own fault.

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

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 superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others.

People blame their environment. There is only one person to blame - and only one - themselves.

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

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

One of the greatest challenges in creating a joyful, peaceful and abundant life is taking responsibility for what you do and how you do it. As long as you can blame someone else, be angry with someone else, point the finger at someone else, you are not taking responsibility for your life.

Most of us expect too much from others and not enough from ourselves.

Failure is an opportunity. If you blame someone else, there is no end to the blame. Therefore the Master fulfills her own obligations and corrects her own mistakes. She does what she needs to do and demands nothing of others.

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.

You are not a failure until you start blaming others for your mistakes

It is better to point out your own mistakes than have somebody else do it.

Stand up, be bold, and take the blame on your own shoulders. Do not go about throwing mud at others; for all the faults you suffer from, you are the sole and only cause.