Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.
~ Margaret Mitchell
One has to handle these negative experiences alone. You can't get help from your friends or family. You're finally alone with it and you have to come to grips with misfortune and go on.
~ Shirley Temple Black
Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
~ Alice Walker
If you want to succeed you must make your own opportunities as you go.
~ John B. Gough
It is sometimes the man who opens the door who is the last to enter the room.
~ Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco
If after all men cannot always make history have a meaning they can always act so that their own lives have one.
~ Albert Camus
Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
~ Sallust
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
~ Francis Bacon
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.
~ Frank Curtis Williams
No one can help you in holding a good job except Old Man You.
~ Edgar Watson Howe
No man will succeed unless he is ready to face and overcome difficulties and prepared to assume responsibilities.
~ William J. H. Boetcker
The brave man carves out his fortune and every man is the sum of his own works.
~ Miguel De Cervantes
Under normal periods any man's success hinges about 5 percent on what others do for him and 95 percent on what he does.
~ James A. Worsham
If a man wants his dreams to come true he must wake up.
~ Anonymous
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.
~ Louis L'amour
Destiny is not a matter of chance it is a matter of choice it is not a thing to be waited for it is a thing to be achieved.
~ William Jennings Bryan
Men at some time are masters of their fates.
~ William Shakespeare
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
Mistakes fail in their mission of helping the person who blames them on the other fellow.
~ Henry S. Haskins
We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until... we have stopped saying It got lost and say I lost it.
~ Sydney J. Harris
Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures.
~ Bernard M. Baruch
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.
~ O. J. Simpson
It is a painful thing to look at your own trouble and know that you yourself and no one else has made it.
~ Sophocles
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.
~ Erica Jong
Fair play with others is primarily not blaming them for anything that is wrong with us.
~ Eric Hoffer
How we love to blame others for our misfortunes! Almost every individual who has lost money in stock speculation has on the tip of his tongue an explanation which he trots out to show that it wasn't his own fault at all.... Hardly one loser has the manliness to say frankly I was wrong.
~ B. C. Forbes
Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment and learn again to exercise ... his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.
~ Albert Schweitzer
The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
The fault dear Brutus is not in our stars but in ourselves.
A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He does not say My men were beaten he says I was beaten.
~ Antoine De Saint-Exupéry
Debt is a trap which man sets and baits himself and then deliberately gets into.
~ Josh Billings
God helps those who help themselves.
~ German Proverb
I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in human beings.
~ Pearl S. Buck
It is vain to ask of the gods what man is capable of supplying for himself.
~ Epicurus
The gods help those who help themselves.
~ Marcus Terentius Varro
Ask God's blessing on your work but don't ask him to do it for you.
~ Dame Flora Robson
He who prays and labours lifts his heart to God with his hands.
~ Saint Bernard
God gives every bird its food but he does not throw it into the nest.
~ Josiah G. Holland
Trust in Allah but tie your camel first.
~ Arab Proverb
