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“I am responsible for my own well-being my own happiness. The choices and decisions I make regarding my life directly influence the quality of my days.”
“To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you that you ought to prefer is to have kept your soul alive.”
“Blame yourself if you have no branches or leaves don't accuse the sun of partiality.”
“Happiness is like time and space-we make and measure it ourselves it is as fancy as big as little as you please just a thing of contrasts and comparisons.”
“No human being can really understand another and no one can arrange another's happiness.”
“When people are bored it is primarily with their own selves that they are bored.”
“If you want to succeed you must make your own opportunities as you go.”
“If after all men cannot always make history have a meaning they can always act so that their own lives have one.”
“Man is still responsible. ... His success lies not with the stars but with himself. He must carry on the fight of self-correction and discipline.”
“No man will succeed unless he is ready to face and overcome difficulties and prepared to assume responsibilities.”
“The brave man carves out his fortune and every man is the sum of his own works.”
“Under normal periods any man's success hinges about 5 percent on what others do for him and 95 percent on what he does.”
“If a man wants his dreams to come true he must wake up.”
“Pa he always said a man had to look spry for himself because nobody would do it for him your opportunities didn't come knocking around you had to hunt them down and hog-tie them.”
“The day you take complete responsibility for yourself the day you stop making excuses that's the day you start your move to the top.”
“It is a painful thing to look at your own trouble and know that you yourself and no one else has made it.”
“When you blame others you give up your power to change.”
“Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.”
“Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment and learn again to exercise ... his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.”
“Put your trust in God my boys and keep your powder dry!”
