Hold Yourself Accountable Quotes
Excuses feel good and build nothing. The moment a man takes full responsibility for his life is the moment he gains the power to change it. This Character path holds history's hardest quotes on accountability and owning your results. Scroll through and put them to work.
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“Some make excuses. Others make progress.”
“A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame someone else.”
“You get what you want, when you stop making excuses why you don't have it.”
“Many fear competition or critique from others, but the biggest critic should be the person in the mirror.”
“So many people can be responsible for your success, but only you are responsible for your failure.”
“Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.”
“I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.”
“Ninety-nine percent of all failures come from people who have a habit of making excuses.”
“He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.”
“It is wise to direct your anger toward problems, not people; to focus your energies on answers, not excuses.”
“The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.”
“Don't make excuses. Your friends don't need them and your foes won't believe them.”
“Excuses are the easiest things to manufacture and the hardest things to sell.”
“I don't want to hear about the labor pains. I just want to see the baby.”
“For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.”
“If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse.”
“It takes more than good intentions to get something done.”
“The most unprofitable item ever manufactured is an excuse.”
“Nothing about an excuse can help your situation.”
“You can make excuses or you can make progress. You choose.”
“Your excuses might be legit but they won't improve your life.”
“You can't be upset at the results you didn't get for the work you didn't do.”
“Stop whining, start hustling.”
“It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.”
“If you don't run your own life, somebody else will.”
“Do what you say you are going to do, when you say you are going to do it.”
“Always do what you say you are going to do. It is the glue and fiber that binds successful relationships.”
“Do what you say you're going to do. And try to do it a little bit better than you said you would.”
“Bad news isn't wine. It doesn't improve with age.”
“A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.”
“Hold yourself to a standard higher than anyone else expects of you. Never excuse yourself.”
“You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.”
“It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable.”
“Success is simple: Do what's right. The right way. At the right time.”
“The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.”
“Right actions for the future are the best apologies for wrong ones in the past.”
“Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things, and I'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.”
“There is nothing so fatal to character as half-finished tasks.”
“The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.”
“There is no way to greatness. Greatness is the way.”
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
“There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.”
“People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.”
“There can only be happiness if the things we think, say and believe are the same as the things we do.”
“I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.”
“Don't find fault. Find a remedy.”
“When the grass looks greener on the other side of the fence, it may be that they take better care of it there.”
“There is no such thing as something for nothing.”
“What you are will show in what you do.”
“The safest way to get what you want is to deserve what you want.”
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