Dave Davies Quotes

I take responsibility for myself and what I do now.

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

I've really learned not to try to take responsibility for all things. And to keep my side of the street clean.

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

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

I look at modern life and I see people not taking responsibility for their lives. The temptation to blame, to find external causes to one's own issues is something that is particularly modern. I know that personally I find that sense of responsibility interesting.

You can never control other people. You can only control yourself. I have definitely learned that.

As long as you blame someone or something else - something outside you that's bigger than you are - as the source of your problems, the problems won't get solved.

One of the things you learn in rehab is that you're responsible for your own actions.

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

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.

You make mistakes, but I don't have any regrets. I'm the kind of person who takes responsibility for it and deals with it. I learn from everything I do. I work very hard, I have so many things going on in my life. Get to know me and see who I am.

I'm a grown man. I don't point fingers.

You need to learn. You need to grow up. You need to step up and know the difference between what you can do and what you can't.

People really haven't seen me in good shape. I understand that. I created that by myself. There is no one else to blame but me.

People hold me accountable. Before I would push people away, but that's not a way to be successful.

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

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 behaved worse than anybody for 15 years, and you have to pay the price for that. I used to blame other people, then therapy made me realise I had to change.

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.

Somewhere there's a score being kept, so you have an obligation to live life as well as you can, be as engaged as you can.

I'm human, I'm not perfect. I make mistakes all the time, but I guess my job is to keep those mistakes to myself, which I'm already fine doing and just try to be the best I can be for those kids.

There's a need for accepting responsibility - for a person's life and making choices that are not just ones for immediate short-term comfort. You need to make an investment, and the investment is in health and education.

I try to be the best man I can for the day.

You know, I'd like to sit here and blame everybody else for my trouble. I just can't do that. I can't find it in myself to do it.