Robert J. Ringer Quotes

I take responsibility for myself and what I do now.

If I don't like something that's going on in my life, I change it. And I don't sit and complain about it for a year.

As long as you blame someone or something else - something outside you that's bigger than you are - as the source of your problems, the problems won't get solved.

There's something magical about putting yourself into life. You've got to stand up and take responsibility for your own life and you cannot abandon that.

Own your problems.

It's one of the things, certainly for me, anyway: I'm learning to take a bigger role in the things that I'm associated with.

You'll never get ahead by blaming your problems on other people.

We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to change for us.

If you take the responsibility for your life, you can start changing it.

I don't associate with people who blame the world for their problems. You are your problem. You are also your solution.

You must personally accept the responsibility of improving your own life.

I used to say, "I sure hope things will change." Then I learned that the only way things are going to change for me is when I change

Blame is a neat little device that you can use whenever you don't want to take responsibility for something in your life. Use it and you will avoid all risks and impede your own growth.

If you want to make a permanent change, stop focusing on the size of your problems and start focusing on the size of you!

It's time to break our ties with anything in us that would rather complain about its situation than go to work to change it.

I cannot change you. I cannot change other people. So I have decided to put all of my energy where I have the most leverage , where I know I can make a difference. Instead of being upset that this world is not populated the way I want it to be populated, I have decided to become the citizen that I want the world to be populated with. That's how I create the vision.

You are embarking on the greatest adventure of your life - to improve your self-image, to create more meaning in your life and in the lives of others. This is your responsibility.

One of the things you learn in rehab is that you're responsible for your own actions.

We must wake ourselves up! Or somebody else will take our place, and bear our cross, and thereby rob us of our crown.

We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility.

We will not spend four years blaming others, we will take responsibility.

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Real change happens when you feel genuinely inspired, turned on by possibility and unwilling to settle for anything less.

I'm saying that you can create success for yourself but also understand that you have a responsibility to others.

Years ago I learned to be totally responsible for Dionne Warwick. I will not wait for opportunities. I will create them.