Frank Herbert Quotes

I can't change the world. I have to fix me.

I can't worry about external factors, I have to focus on myself.

Most of us expect too much from others and not enough from ourselves.

It is we ourselves that we have to think about, no one else. That is the way the saints worked. They paid attention to what they were doing, and if others were attracted to them by their enterprise, why, well and good. But they looked to themselves first of all.

It is the part of an uneducated person to blame others where he himself fares ill; to blame himself is the part of one whose education has begun; to blame neither another nor his own self is the part of one whose education is already complete.

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.

Let each person in relationship worry about Self-what Self is being, doing, and having; what Self is wanting, asking, giving; what Self is seeking, creating, experiencing, and all relationships would magnificently serve their purpose-and their participants!

Self improvement is masturbation.

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

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

I look at modern life and I see people not taking responsibility for their lives. The temptation to blame, to find external causes to one's own issues is something that is particularly modern. I know that personally I find that sense of responsibility interesting.

I take responsibility for myself and what I do now.

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

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.

Every day I have many choices to make about who I want to be.

You have to take responsibility for how you act. You can't fix everyone.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

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

As a leader, the first person I need to lead is me. The first person that I should try to change is me.

We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.

Our accepting what we are must always inhibit our being what we ought to be.

I can't get enough of self-help books of all kinds.

I am constantly evolving. The moment I stop my evolution is the moment I disservice myself and, ultimately, those I love.

You have to work on your own thing. You have to work on yourself, and you have to bring something to the game.

I think that you're only going to get better if you take time to better yourself, not because someone says you should get better.