Gavin Newsom Quotes

I take responsibility for myself and what I do now.

I take complete and sole responsibility for my present situation.

One of the things you learn in rehab is that you're responsible for your own actions.

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

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

At the end of the day, you're responsible for yourself and your actions and that's all you can control. So rather than be frustrated with what you can't control, try to fix the things you can.

I don't want to be that person who's looking squarely at the shortcomings in the process right where I sit and then choose to walk away and do nothing.

All I can control is what I do when I step on the floor.

No one gets away with anything, ever, so take responsibility for your own life.

There comes a time in everybody's life when it's no longer enough to point and say he or she should do it, but you have to answer yourself... That's why I put myself at the party's service.

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.

If you don't accept responsibility for your own actions then you are forever chained to a position of defense.

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

The vast possibilities of our great future will become realities only if we make ourselves responsible for that future.

I hope that you will learn to take responsibility for your decisions. Don't take counsel of your fears.

I look at modern life and I see people not taking responsibility for their lives. The temptation to blame, to find external causes to one's own issues is something that is particularly modern. I know that personally I find that sense of responsibility interesting.

Most people don't have that willingness to break bad habits. They have a lot of excuses and they talk like victims.

You can never control other people. You can only control yourself. I have definitely learned that.

If not me, who? And if not now, when?

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

If it's never our fault, we can't take responsibility for it. If we can't take responsibility for it, we'll always be its victim.

At the end of the day, you are solely responsible for your success and your failure. And the sooner you realize that, you accept that, and integrate that into your work ethic, you will start being successful. As long as you blame others for the reason you aren't where you want to be, you will always be a failure.

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

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

We must wake ourselves up! Or somebody else will take our place, and bear our cross, and thereby rob us of our crown.