Glen Campbell Quotes

I have a rigid self-accountability. You have to work hard.

Failure is an opportunity. If you blame someone else, there is no end to the blame. Therefore the Master fulfills her own obligations and corrects her own mistakes. She does what she needs to do and demands nothing of others.

I take responsibility for myself and what I do now.

We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility.

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

You make mistakes, but I don't have any regrets. I'm the kind of person who takes responsibility for it and deals with it. I learn from everything I do. I work very hard, I have so many things going on in my life. Get to know me and see who I am.

You cheat yourself when you don't do what it is you're supposed to do. You have an obligation to learn everything that you can.

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

Each individual has got to look themselves in the mirror and try and see what they can do better. Period. Point blank.

We think of the Marine Corps as a military outfit, and of course it is, but for me, the U.S. Marine Corps was a four-year crash course in character education. It taught me how to make a bed, how to do laundry, how to wake up early, how to manage my finances. These are things my community didn't teach me.

If I put a statement about being the best interviewer into the universe, I must now live up to it, or at least be held accountable for it. Either way, I'm going to work that much harder.

If you are going to do things in your life and be responsible for your career, then be responsible for your career. You are responsible for your success.

For me, it's not really about showing the coaches. It's about being accountable, being accountable for my own actions and continuing to do what I've been doing since I got here.

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

One of the most essential yet the hardest truths that I have had to learn is that every person should be his own hardest task-master.

One of the greatest challenges in creating a joyful, peaceful and abundant life is taking responsibility for what you do and how you do it. As long as you can blame someone else, be angry with someone else, point the finger at someone else, you are not taking responsibility for your life.

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

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.'

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

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.

I try to work hard. I try to set a good example. I don't look at it as though I've got to be a leader. I just try to behave the way I think I should behave. If that results in a leadership role, great.

I'm always amazed when a pitcher becomes angry at a hitter for hitting a home run off him. When I strike out, I don't get angry at the pitcher, I get angry at myself. I would think that if a pitcher threw up a home run ball, he should be angry at himself.

There's only one law you gotta follow to keep outta trouble. Do it first, do it yourself, and keep on doin' it.

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

The Chinese mom is not the helicopter mom. I would never do their homework for them. It's all about: Take responsibility, don't blame others. Be self-reliant. Never blame the teacher.