Kate Adie Quotes

When given the opportunity to fail myself or fail someone else, I choose to fail myself.

I'm not the kind of guy who will blame other people if things don't work out.

The only person to look out for me is me. I've got to make sure Corey Clark is all right.

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.

You are the master of your own ship, pal. There are lots of people who fall into troubled waters and don't have the guts or the knowledge or the ability to make it to shore. They have nobody to blame but themselves.

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.

You have to be concerned with yourself because if you're not on it all the time, nobody else is going to be.

All of the things that have happened in my life have been self-propelled. I can't blame anybody else or point a finger at anybody.

When you have people catering to you non-stop, you lose it. You need someone to kick you in the butt every now and then!

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.

It's time to take care of our own.

It's not my style to blame anybody else.

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 take risks, but I don't lose respect for my real self. Because what's going to happen afterwards? How are you going to get back? Is there going to be a train, or will it be after midnight and you can't go home again?

The great thing about chess is it's a game for oneself. You don't work on what you can't control, you just work on yourself. And I think if more people did that, we'd all be a lot better off.

I can control what I can control. I just focus on me, and that's it.

I've learned during my life that if I am in hell, I make my own glory. I've also been in glory, and perhaps I've made my own hell, but I certainly don't take anyone down with me.

I don't really expect anything from anyone else that I wouldn't do myself.

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

I'm not really worried about what Anthony Johnson does. I have to worry about what I do to prepare myself.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

I demand more of myself than anyone else could ever expect.

You're the only one who's closing your eyes at night. There's no one else who can do it for you.

I am a good, strong word giver; I am a jealous guard of my own secrets. Freedom is the rule; I am hungry for one good thing I can do.

I hope that you will learn to take responsibility for your decisions. Don't take counsel of your fears.