And always take responsibility for yourself

“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.�- George Bernard Shaw   

“It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.â€? – e.e. cummings

“An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.â€? – Mohandas Gandhi

“Ninety-nine percent of all failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.â€? – George Washington Carver

“Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism; the way you play it is free will.â€? – Jawaharlal Nehru

“Life is not holding a good hand. Life is playing a poor hand well.â€? – Danish Proverb

“A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.â€? – Albert Einstein

“There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.â€? – R. Buckminster Fuller

“We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice – that is, until we have stopped saying ‘It got lost,’ and say, ‘I lost it.’â€? – Sydney J. Harris

“That excuse — ‘I didn’t know any better’ — might work when you are seven years-old, but not when you are the President of the United States.â€? – Etan Thomas

“You can make mistakes, but you aren’t a failure until you start blaming others for those mistakes.â€? – John Wooden

“When you blame others, you give up your power to change.â€? – Douglas Adams

“In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.� – Robert Green Ingersoll

“No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.” – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

 

“We can’t take any credit for our talents. Its how we use them that counts.” – Madeleine L’Engle

 

“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.” – Seneca

 

“Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.” – John Fitzgerald Kennedy