Robert M. Pirsig Quotes

I think self-reliance and self-responsibility and self-accountability will help you as a parent, a teacher, as a citizen as a friend.

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.

A lot of people tell me a lot of things about my conduct, my game, my future... but I try to stay away from their words of wisdom. I don't let it distract me. On the field, you will be facing the ball alone. If you fail, you will the only one to blame. So, you should be the one deciding for yourself.

Depend on no man, on no friend but him who can depend on himself. He only who acts conscientiously toward himself, will act so toward others.

Work alone is noble.

I saw how hard my parents worked, and I didn't want to be a freeloader.

I took it as my personal responsibility to be able to juggle. I didn't want anybody to help me and I didn't expect my office to make it easy for me.

I demand more of myself than anyone else could ever expect.

I am a good, strong word giver; I am a jealous guard of my own secrets. Freedom is the rule; I am hungry for one good thing I can do.

The people who founded America, who fought for its freedom, did not look to anyone else to get them out of their troubles. They took matters into their own hands and answered only to God and their peers. In today's world, sacrifice and hardship are not in the everyday language, and instant gratification is foremost.

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

I guess more players lick themselves that are ever licked by an opposing team. The first thing any man has to know is how to handle himself.

There's only one law you gotta follow to keep outta trouble. Do it first, do it yourself, and keep on doin' it.

I don't pay to have my dirty work done for me. I do it myself.

I like people who take responsibility for their lives.

Being able to take care of myself is something that my mom really instilled in me.

Freedom comes with a lot of responsibility. When you are by yourself, you have to develop a third eye.

I am my own secretary; I dictate, I compose, I copy all myself.

Do everything yourself.

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

You have to be concerned with yourself because if you're not on it all the time, nobody else is going to be.

I am a firm believer in if you can't get it the old fashioned way, you don't need it.

All of the things that have happened in my life have been self-propelled. I can't blame anybody else or point a finger at anybody.

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.