Thomas a Kempis 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.

You cheat yourself when you don't do what it is you're supposed to do. You have an obligation to learn everything that you can.

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

I realize everything's on me as far as what kind of player, person, and student I'm going to be.

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.

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.

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.

To remain a credible leader, I must always work first, hardest, and longest on changing myself. This is neither easy nor natural, but it is essential.

Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.

To come to be you must have a vision of Being, a Dream, a Purpose, a Principle. You will become what your vision is.

Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.

Each individual has got to look themselves in the mirror and try and see what they can do better. Period. Point blank.

All you can do is be your best self. I've always felt that I had to be that much more aware of how I present myself. I'm representing more than just me. I think every person should think that way.

I worked really hard and changed myself and became a more mature player.

At the end of the day, it's me who has to earn the right to play more.

Until you are willing to accept total and complete responsibility for every aspect of your life, your life will keep sending you experiences designed to get your attention.

As for myself, I always willingly acknowledge my own self as the principal cause of every good and of every evil which may befall me; therefore, I have always found myself capable of being my own pupil, and ready to love my teacher.

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

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.

One thing I've learned is that I'm not the owner of my talent; I'm the manager of it.

A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.

Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself.

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.

I think each one of us has committed to improving.