Richelle Mead Quotes

Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility.

You have to be an adult; there is no sitting around and feeling sorry for yourself.

Succeeding in life is a difficult business - you need to work 16 hours a day, face failures along the way, remember that nobody owes you a thing, and take risks.

As a young man, I feel as if it's all about progressing. I may have had to mature a little faster than others, but no worries. I took it on full steam and led by example off the field.

I really want to keep at it until I find out what I'm capable of.

Get off your bottom and be the stand, and do the work you can to pursue the American Dream for yourself, and help others to do the same.

Even though I pretty much made my own decisions early on, when I was younger I tended to overbook my life.

The big things I've had are things I bought myself.

I did everything I could to stay in college and pay my own way, so I think that if success hadn't come so quickly, I would still be pursuing it.

Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place - that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.

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

I believe the reason for my early independence is sport, through which I learnt at an early stage to take care of myself and be disciplined.

I've had to be a man since I was 12 or 13. I had a job. And I was playing the piano for people twice my age. Handling responsibility is what makes a man a man.

There's no real road map to L.A. Everyone's journey is different. You have to persevere and be willing to put everything in it. You have to stick it out. I don't really have a safety net, but what I do is put myself in the best possible position to succeed by working hard. Also, be careful who you let into your life.

What Fred Lebow went through was an inspiration for me. You have to set goals for yourself.

My father really told me, seriously, if you want something, you can have it, but you may have to work harder than anyone else around you.

The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is. I don't believe in 'super-men,' for the world is full of capable men, but it's the fellow with determination that wins out.

Happiness does not fall out of the blue and dreams will not come true by themselves. We need to be down-to-earth and work hard. We should uphold the idea that working hard is the most honorable, noblest, greatest and most beautiful virtue.

I was ironing my own clothes when I was 11 years old. My mental strength goes back to those days.

If America had a motto, it would be pull yourself up by the bootstraps, work harder than the next guy, have a goal and achieve it.

It takes a lot of drive to succeed as an independent producer.

I grew up while I was in college. I learned how to take care of myself. I learned how to prioritize things. I learned how to get things done.

My mother has taught me to be self-reliant, independent and ambitious. She has taught me to chase my goals even though nobody believes in you, you need to believe and you need to fly.

I just know what I'm capable of. When I don't do it, you can always throw the excuse - you're young, it's a process, this and that - but I know what I can do. Just staying patient and just keep putting in hard work and keep God first and the sky is the limit.

Being self-made is a state of mind, and once you put that mentality to work, your success will come.