Melissa Marr Quotes

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

Remember, you and you alone are responsible for maintaining your energy. Give up blaming, complaining and excuse making, and keep taking action in the direction of your goals - however mundane or lofty they may be.

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.

If I'm not happy with what's going on, I try to change it myself.

Expectations are one thing, but you've got to do your own. Got to do your own.

I only focus on what I can do.

I believe that for the most part, achieving success - whatever that is for you - is mostly a matter of personal choice and that, initially, making the right choices can be difficult.

You focus on the things that you can control, and that's what I'm doing.

Let every man feel that he is the architect and builder of his own life, and that he proposes to make a success of it by working.

I feel lucky every day. But I can also trace that luck back to decisions I have made. Frequently, those decisions have been to pay my own way to somewhere I want to be and something I want to do.

I like motivational books, because I like the go-getting American spirit - your destiny is in your own hands, life is what you make it, don't accept your limitations, jump before you're pushed, leap before you look.

Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.

I like people who take responsibility for their lives.

Your life will be no better than the plans you make and the action you take. You are the architect and builder of your own life, fortune, destiny.

You just have to take control of your own performance.

No one will improve your lot if you do not yourself.

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

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 always say to the players, 'You can either create or wait.' If you're waiting, you're relying on someone else, as simple as that. But if you create it, you've got to do it.

If so and so would have given me the right opportunity, or if this person would have encouraged me - I could have made a million excuses on why I wasn't playing in the NFL. You have no more excuses... what do you do from now until your opportunity presents itself? It's all up to you.

Ultimately, I play for myself, and I take responsibility for my own actions.

'No one can make you successful; the will to success comes from within.' I've made this my motto. I've internalized it to the point of understanding that the success of my actions and/or endeavors doesn't depend on anyone else, and that includes a possible failure.

Self-help must precede help from others. Even for making certain of help from heaven, one has to help oneself.

Nobody makes me do anything I don't want to do. It's my decision. So the biggest devil is me. I'm either my best friend or my worst enemy.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.