Kurt Warner Quotes

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

I eventually realized that good things wouldn't happen to me if I didn't make the right choices.

You take on the responsibility for making your dream a reality.

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 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.

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

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.

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

I only can control what I can control.

What we can do is control what we can control.

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

'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.

I just control what I control.

The important message I heard about working out and what I want to share is that you create your own opportunities and your own limitations.

Nobody can hinder you from doing what you want, if that's what you set your mind to. You can always find a hook to hang excuses on, but they're only excuses. You don't have anyone to blame but yourself. Nobody else makes you fail.

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 have to motivate yourself with challenges. That's how you know you're still alive.

All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts.

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.

How did the Oscar change my life? What it did was that it gave me a new reality. And it let me know that an award wasn't going to change my life - that I had to be in control of changing my life.

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

It's a lot about the individual and it's really up to you, how much you dedicate to the fight and how hard you are working and that's where the outcome will come.

At the end of the day, you are solely responsible for your success and your failure. And the sooner you realize that, you accept that, and integrate that into your work ethic, you will start being successful. As long as you blame others for the reason you aren't where you want to be, you will always be a failure.

No excuses and no sob stories. Life is full of excuses if you're looking. I have no time to gripe over misfortune. I don't waste time looking back.