Morarji Desai Quotes

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

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

I know that no one can really stop me but myself and that really no one can help me but myself.

I don't need others to push me. I push myself.

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

If you're sitting around waiting on somebody to save you, to fix you, to even help you, you are wasting your time because only you have the power to take responsibility to move your life forward.

Ultimately the greatest help is self-help.

There are things one must do for oneself.

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.

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

The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual.

I run my own world, because I very firmly believe that my destiny, my future is in my hands and I don't want to blame anybody else for the path that I take.

I am responsible for me. I can kind of take care of what I need to do and should do what I like to do.

You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.

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.

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

I like people who take responsibility for their lives.

The gods help them that help themselves.

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

I'm of the school of thought where if you can't sort something out for yourself then no one can help you.

I learned not to depend on other people. I needed support, but it's you who has to go out and deliver.

I learned a long time ago that advice is a quick trip to nowhere. It's the commitment that only you can make in yourself, the responsibility to assume control of yourself.

You don't wait for somebody to give you something. Then it's not going to happen.

The only pressure you put on yourself is the one you want to. No one else can pressurise you.

I've always been taught to never wait for somebody to give me the opportunity, but to create opportunity for myself.