Alan Cohen Quotes

I learned a long time ago that advice is a quick trip to nowhere. It's the commitment that only you can make in yourself, the responsibility to assume control of yourself.

We may find it convenient to live with the illusion that circumstances or other people are responsible for the quality of our lives, but the reality is that we are responsible-response-able-for our choices.

The fighter (like the writer) must stand alone. If he loses he cannot call an executive conference and throw off on a vice president or the assistant sales manager. He is consequently resented by fractional characters who cannot live outside an organization.

Don't depend on other people's encouragement. It's never enough and never when you need it.

I have to do things for myself, and if those standards are set high, then it's up to me to pass or fail.

Only by taking responsibility for oneself, to the greatest extent possible, can one ever be free, and only a free person can make responsible choices - between right and wrong, saving and spending, giving or taking.

I think there are huge lessons there, for young people who are getting started in life, as well as other people. And that is, to take responsibility for your own life. Only you are responsible for the course you take from there.

A strenuous effort must be made to train young people to think for themselves and take independent charge of their lives.

People who truly understand what is meant by self-reliance know they must live their lives by ethics rather than rules.

You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

When you don't have anybody to take care of you, then you could go both ways: You could do whatever you want, or you could take charge and be your own parent.

I don't need to be motivated by anybody. Never have.

A lot of people tell me a lot of things about my conduct, my game, my future... but I try to stay away from their words of wisdom. I don't let it distract me. On the field, you will be facing the ball alone. If you fail, you will the only one to blame. So, you should be the one deciding for yourself.

Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.

I've had to work by myself at combines before and forced myself to work out alone all the way back to high school. You have to be self-motivated.

I am obliged to believe certain opinions myself. No man's belief will save me except my own.

I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.

What government is best? That which teaches us to govern ourselves.

I'm a man who makes his own decisions and sticks with them; I think there's a lot of integrity in that.

I do everything as honestly as I can. I give all I have to give. But I don't let people get in my way.

Each of you, as an individual, must pick your own goals. Listen to others, but do not become a blind follower.

You know what, I'm out there to give 100%, and I do what I think is best. I really don't care what other people think.

The only pressure you put on yourself is the one you want to. No one else can pressurise you.

I know a lot of people try and set expectations for me. No offense to you guys, but I set my own expectations.