David Gower Quotes

My dad has no control over who works with me. Me, me and me alone has to take responsibility for anything.

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

A person's life is of their own making, and I take full responsibility for mine.

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 think self-reliance and self-responsibility and self-accountability will help you as a parent, a teacher, as a citizen as a friend.

I am responsible for no one but myself.

That person has to be accountable for himself. I think that's what we have to do in society today is to be accountable for yourself. I think we have the tendency to always want to live someone else's life.

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.

I learned a long time ago that advice is a quick trip to nowhere. It's the commitment that only you can make in yourself, the responsibility to assume control of yourself.

I don't believe in luck. Everything is our doing or undoing. If something doesn't come out right, then as a director, you have to take full responsibility. You can't just say, 'No, I gave this job to the music supervisor. They promised me they would do it, and they didn't do it.' You can't blame anyone else.

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

Nobody's going to help me when I get in that ring. That's how I like it: the responsibility's on me, and whatever happens is down to me, nobody else.

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

If you can’t take responsibility for your own well-being, you will never take control over it.

I will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions.

The way I look at it, I'd rather make my own mistakes than have people make them for me.

I think I'm mostly looking forward to the college life. I'm looking forward to more freedom. Here everything is really structured and scheduled, but in college you've got to be more responsible and you can get things done on your own time. I'm really looking forward to that.

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

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

I like people who take responsibility for their lives.

There's something magical about putting yourself into life. You've got to stand up and take responsibility for your own life and you cannot abandon that.

Years ago I learned to be totally responsible for Dionne Warwick. I will not wait for opportunities. I will create them.

When one has genuinely chosen a course for oneself it cannot be possible to hold another responsible for it.

I feel you're in charge of your own situation.