Allen Iverson Quotes

Be your own biggest critic. Don't let someone else beat you to constructive criticism.

Nobody's a better critic of myself than me, and I try to do the best I can.

I take very seriously this notion that my highest job is to live a better life, all the time and to the best of my ability. I need to monitor my own progress - take my own inventory - and clean my own closet. I am trying to do all that.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

I take responsibility for myself and what I do now.

The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that's the day you start to the top.

We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility.

I haven't had an easy life, but at some point, you have to take responsibility for yourself and shape who it is that you want to be. I have no time for moaners. I like to chase my dreams and surround myself with other people who are chasing their dreams, too.

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

I'm hard on myself, like, 'Oh, why did you say that?' But it helps me grow.

There's always things that I can improve on.

I see every year as a year where you've got to prove yourself.

I'll never give myself an A since I ask a lot from myself.

The best comics enlist you to take accountability for who you are, whether you like it or not.

I think sometimes it's about just finding the measuring stick that's different than the one the world puts on you. It's finding the one in which you're held accountable and how you hold each other accountable; what a good job looks like in a particular situation and how to be better at your job than you were yesterday.

Success is mine when I work my hardest to become my best, and I alone determine whether I do so.

No man has a chance to enjoy permanent success until he begins to look in a mirror for the real cause of all his mistakes.

You cannot become a power in your community nor achieve enduring success in any worthy undertaking until you become big enough to blame yourself for your own mistakes and reverses.

I take responsibility for my successes as well as my failures. But when I look at my professional mistakes, I'm always left with the feeling that maybe I should have done more.

Try first thyself, and after call in God; For to the worker God himself lends aid.

I've never really spent a lot of time thinking about my individual accomplishments actually.

I have to do things for myself, and if those standards are set high, then it's up to me to pass or fail.

I just try to do my best and make the best judgments I can.

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.

As long as you blame someone or something else - something outside you that's bigger than you are - as the source of your problems, the problems won't get solved.