Melody Beattie Quotes

The knowledge that we are responsible for living the life we have is our most powerful tool.

It was a question of helping a man prepare in the way that suits him best. The theory is if you give a man responsibility for his own actions, then it is up to him to accept that responsibility.

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 are the choices we make.

To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself of responsibility.

The world you live in is 100 percent your own responsibility. If you don't like your world, it doesn't work to say, "Well, it's my mother's fault. She taught me how to think."

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

In life, you can blame a lot of people and you can wallow in self-pity, or you can pick yourself up and say, 'Listen, I have to be responsible for myself.'

The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

I take responsibility for myself and what I do now.

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 person's life is of their own making, and I take full responsibility for mine.

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

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

The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices, every one of them, are leading you inexorably to either success or failure, however you define those terms.

Liberation does not come from outside.

In life, you get one choice over and over again. That is to take conditions as they are or take responsibility for changing them.

You control what you can control.

The choice you make, makes you.

Your life is a result of the choices you have made. If you don't like your life, start making better choices.

Another person's life is that person's life. You can't take responsibility.

But remember this: in the final analysis, you can believe in your dream, you can be taught, supported, motivated, and loved by others, but ultimately, your success depends on you. You must take responsibility for your body, your mind, and for your character.

I look at myself as a product of my choices, not a victim of my circumstances.

Take responsiblilty for yourself because no one's going to take responsibility for you.

You gain or lose power according to the choices that you make.