Jillian Michaels Quotes

Everybody eventually discovers that they are an individual with the power to affect their own lives and make it better or not.

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.

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

My most earnest prayer is that every man and every woman will get it into his or her heart that they are in very deed the architects of their lives.

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

We are what we make.

I can't change what casting directors do or what producers do. I can only change what I do.

In our personal lives, if we do not develop our own self-awareness and become responsible for first creations, we empower other people and circumstances to shape our lives by default.

How can we resent the life we've created for ourselves? Who's to blame, who's to credit, but us? Who can change it, any time we wish, but us?

All along, you've been shaping your destiny unconsciously. But you can also work on it consciously. If you make the effort to access your core and realise that everything is your responsibility, and shift your focus inside you, then you can rewrite your destiny.

Until you are willing to accept total and complete responsibility for every aspect of your life, your life will keep sending you experiences designed to get your attention.

If you aren’t where you want to be or you haven’t achieved all you hope to achieve, the reason most likely resides not around you but within you. Take responsibility and then take action.

Although our inattention can contribute to our lack of total well-being, we also have the power to choose positive behaviors and responses. In that choice we change our every experience of life!

I take responsibility for myself and what I do now.

In the end, I want to be able to say, 'My life was what I made it.'

You can never control other people. You can only control yourself. I have definitely learned that.

Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.

You've got to take responsibility for your own actions. We all know people who reach rock bottom. However much that they're told that what they're doing is harming their own life or whatever, you cannot make someone do it unless that person reaches the point where they know that they have to deal with it themselves.

I started reading about people of great accomplishment... and it dawned on me suddenly that the person who has the most to do with what happens in your life is you.

A lot of people go through life thinking that they don't have any control, that life is just happening to them. But that's not true.

Too often in life, something happens and we blame other people for us not being happy or satisfied or fulfilled. So the point is, we all have choices, and we make the choice to accept people or situations or to not accept situations.

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.

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

At the end of the day, you're responsible for yourself and your actions and that's all you can control. So rather than be frustrated with what you can't control, try to fix the things you can.