Sergei Bubka Quotes

The first rule in opera is the first rule in life: see to everything yourself.

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

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

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

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'm not sure there are a lot of things I'd want a manager for. I suppose I feel that at least the decisions I make are coming from me, and I'm not put into a situation that I wouldn't want to be in.

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

There is a core independence and dignity you get when you control your own time.

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

We always did everything ourselves.

We demand entire freedom of action and then expect the government in some miraculous way to save us from the consequences of our own acts.... Self-government means self-reliance.

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.

The way I look at it, I'd rather make my own mistakes than have people make them for me.

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.

Only by taking responsibility for oneself, to the greatest extent possible, can one ever be free, and only a free person can make responsible choices - between right and wrong, saving and spending, giving or taking.

If you let other people do it for you, they will do it to you.

I enjoy making the decisions.

I think I'm mostly looking forward to the college life. I'm looking forward to more freedom. Here everything is really structured and scheduled, but in college you've got to be more responsible and you can get things done on your own time. I'm really looking forward to that.

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

I like to control my own personal life.

I don't have anybody telling me what to do.

If I am to truly become an autonomous woman, then I must take over that role of being my own guardian.

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

In my work I have complete control, but about my life, I don't want to.