Arthur C. Brooks Quotes

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

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

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

It was a question of helping a man prepare in the way that suits him best. The theory is if you give a man responsibility for his own actions, then it is up to him to accept that responsibility.

I am responsible for no one but myself.

I feel you're in charge of your own situation.

I don't believe in luck. Everything is our doing or undoing. If something doesn't come out right, then as a director, you have to take full responsibility. You can't just say, 'No, I gave this job to the music supervisor. They promised me they would do it, and they didn't do it.' You can't blame anyone else.

A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control.

My dad has no control over who works with me. Me, me and me alone has to take responsibility for anything.

What is nice about this sport is that I am responsible for most everything.

I like people who take responsibility for their lives.

When you go independent, if you fail, you're totally responsible for it. If you succeed, you're totally responsible for it. You are responsibly for who you are... and what you do and what you make.

That person has to be accountable for himself. I think that's what we have to do in society today is to be accountable for yourself. I think we have the tendency to always want to live someone else's life.

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

When one has genuinely chosen a course for oneself it cannot be possible to hold another responsible for it.

Man must assume responsibility for the direction of his life and destiny.

We want to control our own destiny and take responsibility for our own outcomes.

Nobody's going to help me when I get in that ring. That's how I like it: the responsibility's on me, and whatever happens is down to me, nobody else.

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 can’t take responsibility for your own well-being, you will never take control over it.

I'm in control of my life, not anyone in Hollywood.

Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.

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.

I am a great believer in people taking control of their own lives.

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.