Phyllis Bottome Quotes

I try to be the best man I can for the day.

There is no shame — having a dirty face — the shame comes when you keep it dirty.

He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave.

I'm hard on myself, so I'm working on shifting perspective toward self-acceptance, with all my flaws and weaknesses.

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

I need to start caring about myself if I'm going to be a proper father.

I'm one of those people where, the more responsibility I have, the better I become. The more I rise up to it. The less responsibility I have, the more I can easily devolve.

I want people around me who call me out and hold me accountable.

I am human like everyone else. I am aware that there are people who look up to me. When mistakes are made, they aren't intentional, and I constantly push myself to be a better person.

You cannot live a normal existence if you haven't taken care of a problem that affects your life and affects the lives of others, values that you hold which in fact define your very existence.

When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.

I'm just trying to be the best I can be. I try to surround myself with people who are strong in areas I'm weak. Which is why I have such a big staff.

If you know you are giving your best effort, you'll never have any reason for regrets.

Becoming a mother has made all the difference in terms of learning to take more responsibility for myself and my life. Parenthood changed the way I do everything.

Anything I can give women to help them feel better about themselves, that's what I want to do.

I'm going to do all I can, control what I can control and I think one thing I can do beyond just playing the best I can is to start really coaching and leading other people so that I can never walk off the field saying, 'Hey, I did my part but so-and-so didn't,' that can't happen.

I think I've learned how to be a better boss. I'm the one running the show now, and in the past, I've always kind of been looking at other people to make the decisions. I feel more confident to run not just my show, but behind the scenes, too.

I'm not perfect. But I hold myself to a high standard every day.

One of the things I've stopped doing is going out of my way to make people feel OK about their mistakes.

Humility leads to strength and not to weakness. It is the highest form of self-respect to admit mistakes and to make amends for them.

Your first responsibility is to yourself and to your own goodness of heart.

I've really learned not to try to take responsibility for all things. And to keep my side of the street clean.

Responsibility to yourself means that you don't fall for shallow and easy solutions-it means that you refuse to sell your talents and aspirations short.

Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame.

You can either blame everybody else or you can take a look at yourself and determine where you can improve.