Connie Mack Quotes

You are the master of your own ship, pal. There are lots of people who fall into troubled waters and don't have the guts or the knowledge or the ability to make it to shore. They have nobody to blame but themselves.

Life imposes things on you that you can't control, but you still have the choice of how you're going to live through this.

Whether you prevail or fail depends more on what you do to yourself than on what the world does to you.

There have always been hard times. There have always been wars and troubles -famine, disease and such-like -and some folks are born with money, some with none. In the end it is up to the man what he becomes, and none of those other things matters. It is character that counts.

Adversity, and perseverance and all these things can shape you. They can give you a value and a self-esteem that is priceless.

Things are not as we would like them to be. There is only one way to deal with it, namely to try and be all right oneself.

The image of me as someone who likes or can deal with a fight is wrong. Some people enjoy competition and dustups, and I wish I did, but I don't. But once you have started down a path, then I think you have to move forward. You can't give up.

You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.

Every man must decide for himself whether he shall master his world or be mastered by it.

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.

Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

I've had lots of things that didn't work out, like TV shows. You learn a lot through mistakes - I learned that you have to be the captain of your ship. Actually, I own my ship.

You only have one go at life, which is thrilling. Only you can make yourself into who you want to be. Don't blame anybody else. You are entitled to free fresh air, and that's it. Do the rest yourself.

I had to fight my whole life to break out of my circumstances. That's just part of my makeup.

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.

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

That was a sin: to consider yourself victimized or not able to control your destiny or your fate - that was the one cardinal sin in our community.

There are situations where you are left robbed of all quality of life, and I believe it is entirely up to you how you want to deal with that. You can follow the dictates of religion if that is what you believe in, or you can take a personal decision.

Any time you experience adversity, whether you lose a game or maybe have an official who makes a poor call that costs you the game, you've gotta handle yourself properly. Just like in life, not everything will go your way.

It's a huge learning that things aren't always in your control. You can only be responsible for what you're doing.

You control what you can control.

I think a person's true worth is measured during times of failure.

I'm my own harshest critic but I'm also master of my own destiny.

I think life gives you lemons, and the thing that I'm working on doing is not watering it down, not putting sugar in it. Just drink it straight. The more you can take life head on... it's gonna make you a better person, and then you have nothing left to be afraid of. And what an awesome way to live.