Bernard Baruch Quotes

If I fall over and make mistakes, I'll pick myself back up and hope for the best and try to conduct myself with as much authenticity and moral code.

I try to be a good person. I know what my downfalls are, so that's a good thing.

Learn to expect less from life and more from yourself. Accept the changes that life throws at you. Remember, your destiny is pretty much in your hands. So, as your mom may have told you, keep them clean.

People can say or think whatever they want... so in my reality, it's kind of irrelevant. I'm always the kind of person that does the right thing and keeps my side of the street clean.

What, pray, does it profit a man to teach others, and to be prating always about virtue, in high-sounding words, if he fails to give heed to his own instructions?

This is my journey. If I fall, I have to pick myself up. If I'm not getting the playing time I want, it's up to me to figure out why.

I just focus on what I can control, and that's how hard I play and my attitude.

I'm very hard on myself. I'm the first person that'll say, 'Yeah I messed up.' And then I'll try to go out and fix it.

Raise your standards for the one thing over which you have complete control--yourse lf. It means you're committed to being intelligent, flexible, and creative enough to consistently find a way to look at your life in a fashion that makes any experience enriching.

The hardest thing to do is work hard when no one is watching.

Self-respect leads to self-discipline.

When a man does all he can, though it succeeds not well, blame not him that did it.

You've just got to do the best that you can.

I mean, it's the life lessons that I suppose you learn that nobody gets a free ride and that you do the best you can with the means that you can and try to open yourself to as much knowledge and all that that you can.

I take responsibility for myself and what I do now.

I just try to do my best and make the best judgments I can.

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

I have the wherewithal to challenge myself for my entire life. That's a great gift.

Say what you know, do what you must, come what may.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.

Good actions ennoble us, we are the sons of our own deeds.

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

Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women.

Do your best when no one is looking. If you do that, then you can be successful in anything that you put your mind to.

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.