Dimitri Payet Quotes

I was pretty bad when I was younger.

I was not very well-behaved. I remember I was a discipline problem. I was a typical American male at twenty years old, and I was causing trouble whenever I could.

I'm tired of playing the brat.

We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish.

I was quite naughty at school.

I learned in an extremely hard way that the accountability falls with me.

I had an attitude problem when I was a kid. I'm not gonna lie.

I've realized that I can't control what the hell everyone else is gonna do. People are crazy. People want different things.

I'm definitely not proud of some of the stuff I did as a youth, but that's where my mind-frame was at one point in my life, and I can't pretend those things didn't happen. I'm not glorifying them, I'm trying to make them into art.

Remember where you came from, where you're going, and why you created this mess you got yourself into in the first place.

It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things from you.

As individuals, I just think that our biggest responsibility is to be self-aware, and some of us are not.

When you repeat a mistake, it is not a mistake anymore: it is a decision.

But I've swallowed my pride before, that's for sure. I'm practically lined with my mistakes on the inside like a bad-wallpapered bathroom.

Focusnot on the rudeness of others,not on what they've done or left undone,but on what you have done and have not doneyourself.

The challenge of course is in sobriety and that's been the blessing, to realize, to take accountability for the ways that your own thinking impacts your happiness, and your serenity, and your ability to be a productive and a loving, giving member of your family and society.

My history is long, and not much of it is good. I can't erase it, but I'm determined not to make another mistake. Not when the stakes are high, not when it comes to you.

Like most of the educated, I do harbor a fondness for the sins of my ignorant past.

If men knew themselves, God would heal and pardon them.

One of the most common ways of not acknowledging our faults is to blame others.

Nobody should expect more of you than you expect of yourself.

How hard you work at correcting your faults reveals your character.

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.

I control my life and I have never let success run away with me - I've taken it and ran. And the only thing that could threaten my stability is me - I'm my only threat and my own worst enemy. Beyond that, I don't feel successful. I'm nowhere near where I plan to be as far as my goals.

It is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.