Nathaniel Branden Quotes

I take full responsibility for my life and my career.

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

Years ago I learned to be totally responsible for Dionne Warwick. I will not wait for opportunities. I will create them.

Optimism is a duty. The future is open. It is not predetermined. No one can predict it, except by chance. We all contribute to determining it by what we do. We are all equally responsible for its success.

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them.

You gotta own it if you want it

You've got to take responsibility and to do everything in your power to get results. Hopefully players look at that and try and follow it.

Those who approach their jobs and careers with enthusiasm always find plenty of opportunities, while those who complain about no one ever giving them a chance are merely observers of life. When you are determined that you will not allow others to determine your future for you, when you refuse to allow temporary setbacks to defeat you, you are destined for great success. The opportunities will always be there for you.

Life helps those who help themselves.

People talk about getting lucky breaks in their careers. I’m living proof that the “lucky breaks” theory is simply wrong. You get to make your own luck... The world is run by those who show up…not those who wait to be asked.

Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves.

If you don't give anything, don't expect anything. Success is not coming to you, you must come to it.

The ten most powerful two-letter words in the English language are: If it is to be, it is up to me.

Nothing is going to be handed to you -- you have to make things happen.

I think we make our own luck. Our parents give us life, but what we do with that life is our own responsibility.

Don't wait for your break, make your break. Go make it happen for yourself.

Health, happiness and success depend upon the fighting spirit of each person. The big thing is not what happens to us in life, but what we do about what happens to us.

Choosing to take responsibility for ourselves and for the consequences our choices create looks like hard work, but it really sets us free.

If you're sitting around waiting on somebody to save you, to fix you, to even help you, you are wasting your time because only you have the power to take responsibility to move your life forward.

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

One of the first things successful people realize is the old adage, “If it is to be, it is up to me.” That is, for you, the fact that your success and your course is up to you. This doesn’t mean that you do it all alone. It simply means that you take responsibility for your life and your career.

the voluntary relinquishing of responsibility for our lives and our actions is one of the greatest enemies of our time.

A person cannot coast along in old destructive habits year after year and accept whatever comes along. A person must stand up on her own two legs and walk. Get off the bus and go get on another. Climb out of the ditch and cross the road. Find the road that s where you want to go. ... The only sermon that counts is the one that is formed by our actions. She would quit drinking and thereby show Kyle life is what you make it. A person can grab hold of her life and change things for the better. This happens all the time. We are not chips of wood drifting down the stream of time. We have oars.

Success requires no explanations. Failure permits no alibis.