Melody Beattie Quotes

It's only in fairy tales that princesses can afford to wait for the handsome prince to save them. In real life, they have to bust out of their own coffins and do the saving themselves.

If someone else isn't making it happen for you, make it happen yourself.

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me.

That's the kind of motif I bring to the books - that people take charge of their own lives.

It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.'

Tell the people not to depend on me anymore.

I have always told my daughters not to be dependent on anyone in any capacity.

She was afraid, but she couldn't just sit around waiting for someone to save her. She had to try to save herself, try to figure it out.

History shows that it does not matter who is in power or what revolutionary forces take over the government, those who have not learned to do for themselves and have to depend solely on others never obtain any more rights or privileges in the end than they had in the beginning.

It's a mistake not to give people a chance to learn to depend on themselves while they are young.

The only person who is going to give you security and the life you want is you.

A girl expecting rescue never learns to save herself. Even with the means, she will find her courage wanting.

I was not rescued by a prince; I was the administrator of my own rescue.

Never neglect what you can do for yourself in the form of another.

I think that you're just as close to Jesus if you use the equipment he gave you other than to call on him to do for you what you can do for yourself.

Our experience over the last 20 years has shown that indeed people must themselves become their own liberators. You cannot wait for somebody else to come and rescue you.

No woman should give her happiness into the keeping of a man without fixed principles.

No one is coming to save you.

To tell men that they cannot help themselves is to fling them into recklessness and despair.

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

There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance.

A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control.

The idea that somebody else is going to swoop down and play the fairy godmother role is pretty unlikely, so why not take care of yourself?

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.