Lynda Resnick Quotes

Raise your standards for the one thing over which you have complete control--yourse lf. It means you're committed to being intelligent, flexible, and creative enough to consistently find a way to look at your life in a fashion that makes any experience enriching.

I take responsibility for myself and what I do now.

I'm not blaming my mom for my life because I am responsible for me, and nobody can change me or ruin me easier than I can.

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

The great thing about chess is it's a game for oneself. You don't work on what you can't control, you just work on yourself. And I think if more people did that, we'd all be a lot better off.

I can control what I can control. I just focus on me, and that's it.

I'm my own harshest critic but I'm also master of my own destiny.

I can't worry about external factors, I have to focus on myself.

I just try to control what I can control.

I've had to push myself and I've really matured.

I just focus on what I can control, and that's how hard I play and my attitude.

That is life: you have to deal with things, and it's up to you how you deal with things. That's what makes you mature or not. If you can get the best out of yourself, that's all that matters. If you do that, nobody is arguing.

I've learned to go out and focus on what I can control, like how hard I work and my attitude and whether I'm happy or not. I've really tried to focus on those things.

All I can control is myself and just keep having a positive attitude.

You need to be very critical of yourself because MMA is a singular sport. You have to make the changes yourself or nothing will change. You have to be the one making the changes.

I think there are things you can do to toughen yourself up.

I only focus on what I can do.

I'm not really worried about what Anthony Johnson does. I have to worry about what I do to prepare myself.

Poverty is a virtue which one can teach oneself.

If you will be hard on yourself, life will be easy on you. But if you insist upon being easy on yourself, life is going to be very hard on you.

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

I mean, it's the life lessons that I suppose you learn that nobody gets a free ride and that you do the best you can with the means that you can and try to open yourself to as much knowledge and all that that you can.

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

You can't please everybody all the time, but I think for the most part we tend to maintain a healthy level of self-reference to kind of make sure we continue to push things forward.

Long-term, we must begin to build our internal strengths. It isn't just skills like computer technology. It's the old-fashioned basics of self-reliance, self-motivation, self-reinforcement, self-discipline, self-command.