Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Quotes

The important thing is to concentrate upon what you can do - by yourself, upon your own initiative.

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.

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

If someone else isn't making it happen for you, make it happen yourself.

If you want to do something, just do it. No one is going to do it for you.

Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.

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

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

You can't do anything unless you do it yourself. And usually you can't do it yourself very well.

No one can stop you from doing exactly what you want to do. If you can accept that the cavalry won't come, and if you can be the cavalry, it gives you a chance to be happy.

As one goes through life, one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move.

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

If you let other people do it for you, they will do it to you.

I'll always continue to work. I've never much depended on anyone but myself, as far as that goes.

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.

I don't pay to have my dirty work done for me. I do it myself.

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

Do everything yourself.

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

I'm my own salesman. I can't let anybody do anything for me.

I am responsible for no one but myself.

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

I take full responsibility for my life and my career.

I've been writing on my own. It's like Roger Miller used to say, every now and then, like a dog having puppies, you have to crawl under the house and do it yourself.