Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

You have to take responsibility for how you act. You can't fix everyone.

It's essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself.

I got to start limiting the hits I take on myself.

Some people think there's a woman to blame, but I know - it's my own damn fault

You have a conscience, and a conscience is a valuable attribute, but not if it begins to make you think you were to blame for what is far beyond the scope of your responsibility.

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

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

You can bear anything if it is not your fault.

All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for external reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration. You may succeed in making another feel guilty about something by blaming him, but you won't succeed in changing whatever it is about you that is making you unhappy.

Today I release the need to blame anyone, including myself.

What man ever blamed himself for his misfortune?

For me, when I go to bed at night, I am happy that I haven't hurt someone. And if I think I have, I will rectify it. I now refuse to give someone permission to make me feel bad about myself. They can't make me feel bad about myself if I don't allow it.

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

We are responsible for actions performed in response to circumstances for which we are not responsible.

One of the ways that people avoid taking responsibility for their role in their own pain is what I call the BPs - blame and projection.

An artist is his own fault.

When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.

The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.

I've done enough wrong on my own, I don't want to get blamed for something I didn't do.

The extent of one man's guilt may be defined by how much of it is experienced by the party he injured.

I have always been willing to take the blame for the things I have done.

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

I blame myself more so because I hung a curve. If you want to point a finger, point it at me.

That, Madam, is my misfortune, not my fault.

It's not my style to blame anybody else.