Robert N. Anthony Quotes

What is nice about this sport is that I am responsible for most everything.

We are ultimately alone in that we are ultimately responsible for ourselves.

The first rule in opera is the first rule in life: see to everything yourself.

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.

I am responsible for no one but myself.

We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces: we become the powerful force ourselves.

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

Control your own destiny or someone else will.

Carefully avoid all undertakings which depends on others; but let him eagerly pursue that which depends on himself.

If you live your life as a hostage to everybody else's decision, you either have to live a very narrow life, or you have to spend a lot of time in pain.

People buy into my agenda. I don't buy into anyone's agenda.

Anything you're not in control of you can't be that comfortable with.

We want to control our own destiny and take responsibility for our own outcomes.

Relying on someone else to be successful only ties you down and limits you.

Take responsiblilty for yourself because no one's going to take responsibility for you.

History shows that it does not matter who is in power or what revolutionary forces take over the government, those who have not learned to do for themselves and have to depend solely on others never obtain any more rights or privileges in the end than they had in the beginning.

If you want things to be right, you have to do them yourself

The more help a person has in his garden, the less it belongs to him.

Mama was a country woman with a whole lot of common sense. She understood what most of our neighbors didn't - that I shouldn't grow dependent on anyone except myself. 'One of these days, I ain't gonna be here,' she kept hammering inside my head.

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.

In this world, I call the shots and I think I know best.

A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control.

I cannot do politics under someone else's control.

Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.

I'm not anybody's puppet.