William Safire Quotes

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

There's only one law you gotta follow to keep outta trouble. Do it first, do it yourself, and keep on doin' it.

If you want to do something, just do it. No one is going to do it for you.

Carefully avoid all undertakings which depends on others; but let him eagerly pursue that which depends on himself.

People like to blame others. I think a person should just look at their own situation, look around them, find out what they wish to do, and seek and go and do that. And that's it.

I don't have a lot of time for people who don't take care of their own problems. Everything that needs to be done takes effort.

I learned early that if I wanted to achieve anything in life, I'd have to do it myself. I learned that I had to be accountable.

If you want things to be right, you have to do them yourself

No one will do it for you.

People who sit back and wait for somebody to take care of them are the people that if shown a way, can be useful to our society.

As one goes through life, one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move.

If someone else isn't making it happen for you, make it happen yourself.

The idea that somebody else is going to swoop down and play the fairy godmother role is pretty unlikely, so why not take care of yourself?

My dad has no control over who works with me. Me, me and me alone has to take responsibility for anything.

He didn't riot. He got on his bike and looked for work.

I'll always continue to work. I've never much depended on anyone but myself, as far as that goes.

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

I don't pay to have my dirty work done for me. I do it myself.

The first rule in opera is the first rule in life: see to everything yourself.

The important thing is to concentrate upon what you can do - by yourself, upon your own initiative.

God helps those who help themselves.

If you want something you can have it, but you have to do some work. It's the ethic my mother brought me up with.

We do need a return to individual integrity, self-reliance, and old-fashioned gumption. We really do.

Don't bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.

We will not spend four years blaming others, we will take responsibility.