Bertolt Brecht Quotes

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

None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.

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.

Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.

The gods help them that help themselves.

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself.

Expectations are one thing, but you've got to do your own. Got to do your own.

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

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

To make big steps, you've got to take action yourself and not listen to other people.

No man who is not willing to help himself has any right to apply to his friends, or to the gods.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing they themselves must in the very nature of things be their own best helpers.

God helps those who help themselves.

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

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

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

Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment …. The welfare of the workers depends on their own initiative.

You wait for fate to bring about the changes in life which you should be bringing about by yourself.

You have to work on your own thing. You have to work on yourself, and you have to bring something to the game.

People like to blame others. I think a person should just look at their own situation, look around them, find out what they wish to do, and seek and go and do that. And that's it.

If I'm not happy with what's going on, I try to change it myself.

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).

No one is going to give me opportunities. I've gotta take them.