Dabo Swinney Quotes

In life, you can blame a lot of people and you can wallow in self-pity, or you can pick yourself up and say, 'Listen, I have to be responsible for myself.'

A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.

This is my journey. If I fall, I have to pick myself up. If I'm not getting the playing time I want, it's up to me to figure out why.

I don't do the victim mode. I don't do blame. I can't bear that.

But remember this: in the final analysis, you can believe in your dream, you can be taught, supported, motivated, and loved by others, but ultimately, your success depends on you. You must take responsibility for your body, your mind, and for your character.

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

I have to do things for myself, and if those standards are set high, then it's up to me to pass or fail.

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.

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

Remember, you and you alone are responsible for maintaining your energy. Give up blaming, complaining and excuse making, and keep taking action in the direction of your goals - however mundane or lofty they may be.

I take full responsibility for my life and my career.

Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.

Muslims have not been doing anything to change their own helplessness and they do not deserve to be helped by Allah. To be very crude, the fate of the Muslims today is of their own making.

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

If you're unhappy with your circumstances, then change them. Don't blame the government or your boss or the guy down the street who's better looking than you (exceptions include Hugh Jackman and George Clooney). Just take some Pepto-Bismol and be a man (or woman, for all of you bullish feminists).

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

He who requires much from himself and little from others, will keep himself from being the object of resentment.

The hope of the world lies in what one demands, not of others, but of oneself.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

I take responsibility for myself and what I do now.

We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.

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.

For me, I think that I don't like feeling pressure from outside sources. I'd rather put the pressure on myself and push myself to do it as good as I can.

The doer alone learneth.