David Koechner Quotes

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

I think there are huge lessons there, for young people who are getting started in life, as well as other people. And that is, to take responsibility for your own life. Only you are responsible for the course you take from there.

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

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.

We are ultimately alone in that we are ultimately responsible for ourselves.

I am responsible for no one but myself.

I take full responsibility for my life and my career.

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

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

Nobody can stop you but you. And shame on you if you're the one who stops yourself.

Muslims have not been doing anything to change their own helplessness and they do not deserve to be helped by Allah. To be very crude, the fate of the Muslims today is of their own making.

The one with the primary responsibility to the individual's future is that individual.

That's all I ever wanted - to go out as myself and have the success or failure fall on me.

I'm not a sympathetic guy when I see people throwing their lives away and using their life's obstacles as excuses to fail. I just don't buy into that.

But remember this: in the final analysis, you can believe in your dream, you can be taught, supported, motivated, and loved by others, but ultimately, your success depends on you. You must take responsibility for your body, your mind, and for your character.

He chose a certain path in life, it proved to be a misguided one, but there, he chose it, he can say that at least. As for myself, I cannot even claim that. You see, I trusted. I trusted in his lorship's wisdom. All those years I served him, I trusted I was doing something worthwhile. I can't even say I made my own mistakes. Really - one has to ask oneself - what dignity is there in that?

A secure individual...knows that the responsibility for anything concerning his life remains with himself-and he accepts that responsibility.

The greatest lesson of life is that you are responsible for your life.

Stand up, be bold, and take the blame on your own shoulders. Do not go about throwing mud at others; for all the faults you suffer from, you are the sole and only cause.

We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives.

Whenever you think something or some person is ruining your life, it's you. A victimization mentality is so debilitating.

If the whole responsibility is thrown upon our own shoulders, we shall be at our highest and best; when we have nobody to grope towards, no devil to lay our blame upon, no Personal God to carry our burdens, when we are alone responsible, then we shall rise to our highest and best. I am responsible for my fate, I am the bringer of good unto myself, I am the bringer of evil.

All of us prepare our own lunch. If we don't like our jobs, if we don't like the state of our relationships, if we don't like what's happening to our spiritual lives - we have no one to blame but ourselves. Because God has given us free will.

Don't blame anyone or anything for your situation or problems. When you do that, you are saying that you are powerless over your own life—which is utter crap. An empowering step to reclaiming your life is taking responsibility.

If you suffer it is because of you, if you feel blissful it is because of you. Nobody else is responsible - only you and you alone. You are your hell and your heaven too.