LZ Granderson Quotes

One person's embarrassment is another person's accountability.

If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.

At the end of the day, you're responsible for yourself and your actions and that's all you can control. So rather than be frustrated with what you can't control, try to fix the things you can.

I'll demand of myself and my own government what, in the past, I insisted of others.

Hold yourselves accountable before you are held accountable.

It's sometimes too easy to point fingers when circumstances dramatically go awry, but as an addict, I'm ultimately responsible for my own decisions, no matter how benign or tragic the consequences.

You've got to demand the truth from yourself.

In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life - or at least the way life should be.

In football, it's the job of the player to play, the coach to coach, the official to officiate. Each guy is charged with upholding his end, nothing more. In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life - or at least the way life should be.

I take responsibility for myself and what I do now.

How can I govern others, who can't even govern myself?

We live in a society that blames everybody else for what's wrong.

Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.

Yes, we have the freedom to do what we please, but it only works because we don't do everything we might please - we should exercise some degree of personal, and corporate, responsibility.

If I am going to trash others for their dumb predictions, I must at least hold myself to the same sort of accountability.

I'm always amazed when a pitcher becomes angry at a hitter for hitting a home run off him. When I strike out, I don't get angry at the pitcher, I get angry at myself. I would think that if a pitcher threw up a home run ball, he should be angry at himself.

Everybody blames the culture without taking responsibility.

Personal responsibility is not only recognizing the errors of our ways. Personal responsibility lies in our willingness and ability to correct those errors individually and collectively.

You have to take responsibility for how you act. You can't fix everyone.

I have a rigid self-accountability. You have to work hard.

Showing your life so public is a mistake sometimes, but I blame myself as much as anyone else.

I see bad stuff on the street all the time that I don't do anything about. I do bad stuff myself all the time. The goal is not to somehow be perfect - that's silly, that's naive. The goal is to just recognize there are choices in front of us, and to try to make better ones.

We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility.

We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.

But there is a corollary to freedom and that's personal responsibility, and the real challenge is how you generate that personal responsibility without imposing it.