Ray Kroc Quotes

I will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions.

A person's life is of their own making, and I take full responsibility for mine.

The more control you have over your life, the more responsible you feel for your own success - or failure.

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

I think there are huge lessons there, for young people who are getting started in life, as well as other people. And that is, to take responsibility for your own life. Only you are responsible for the course you take from there.

We are all the writer-director-star-producer of our own life. We see life through our own eyes.

You have to create your life. You have to carve it, like a sculpture.

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

I'm of the school of thought where if you can't sort something out for yourself then no one can help you.

The one with the primary responsibility to the individual's future is that individual.

Man must assume responsibility for the direction of his life and destiny.

I feel you're in charge of your own situation.

You can only control your own destiny.

That's all I ever wanted - to go out as myself and have the success or failure fall on me.

You're the only person that can make your life happen.

Nobody's going to help me when I get in that ring. That's how I like it: the responsibility's on me, and whatever happens is down to me, nobody else.

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances.

You are responsible for your life. It doesn't matter what your Mama did. It doesn't matter what your Daddy didn't do. You are responsible for your life.

My future is one I must make myself.

We may find it convenient to live with the illusion that circumstances or other people are responsible for the quality of our lives, but the reality is that we are responsible-response-able-for our choices.

There is no plan, no future laid out for any of us beyond what we make for ourselves.

To give up responsibility for our lives is not healthy.

You and you alone are responsible for taking actions to create the life of your dreams. Nobody else can (or will) do it for you.

If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.