Story Musgrave Quotes

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

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

But remember this: in the final analysis, you can believe in your dream, you can be taught, supported, motivated, and loved by others, but ultimately, your success depends on you. You must take responsibility for your body, your mind, and for your character.

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.

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

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

I like people who take responsibility for their lives.

I take full responsibility for my life and my career.

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

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

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.

In this life, you have to be your own hero.

If you need a certain vitality you can only supply it yourself, or there comes a point, anyway, when no one's actions but your own seem dramatically convincing and justifiable in the plot that the number of your days concocts.

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

In life, you can blame a lot of people and you can wallow in self-pity, or you can pick yourself up and say, 'Listen, I have to be responsible for myself.'

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

A strenuous effort must be made to train young people to think for themselves and take independent charge of their lives.

No matter who is watching or paying the paycheck, we are ultimately each our own boss.

I'm not blaming my mom for my life because I am responsible for me, and nobody can change me or ruin me easier than I can.

I've learned that you have to take responsibility for yourself in this game and lead yourself through it.

I am responsible for me. I can kind of take care of what I need to do and should do what I like to do.

I know that no one can really stop me but myself and that really no one can help me but myself.

Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.