Buzz Aldrin Quotes

An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual.

I take responsibility for myself and what I do now.

In order to be responsible, you need some discipline in your life.

As wonderful as they were, my parents didn't teach me anything about self-discipline, concentration, patience, or focus. If I hadn't had a family myself, I probably never would've done anything. Marriage taught me responsibility.

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.

If you deny yourself commitment, what can you do with your life?

I realize everything's on me as far as what kind of player, person, and student I'm going to be.

To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be.

In order to be responsible, you need some discipline in your life. For a while I lost mine.

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

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.

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

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

To remain a credible leader, I must always work first, hardest, and longest on changing myself. This is neither easy nor natural, but it is essential.

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.

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

If you know you are giving your best effort, you'll never have any reason for regrets.

Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.

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.

I worked really hard and changed myself and became a more mature player.

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.

I can only control myself, my actions, my work ethic, and my attitude.