Iyanla Vanzant Quotes

Peak performance begins with your taking complete responsibility for your life and everything that happens to you.

Accept the consequences of your actions in order to become the agent of your mental, physical, spiritual and material success.

It is time to stop looking outside yourself for the answers to why you haven't created the life and results you want, for it is you who creates the quality of life you lead and the results you produce. You-no one else! To achieve major success in life-to achieve those things that are most important to you-you must assume 100% responsibility for your life. Nothing less will do.

It is better for you to take responsibility for your life as it is, instead of blaming others, or circumstances, for your predicament. As your eyes open, you'll see that your state of health, happiness, and every circumstance of your life has been, in large part, arranged by you - consciously or unconsciously.

Don't blame anyone or anything for your situation or problems. When you do that, you are saying that you are powerless over your own life—which is utter crap. An empowering step to reclaiming your life is taking responsibility.

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.

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

In Buddhism, you have to believe in yourself. You don't believe something external guides your life. You do it yourself.

I think I finally have really taken ownership of myself and me as a gymnast.

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.

A martial artist has to take responsibility for himself and accept the consequences of his own doing.

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.

Changing your nature is the hardest thing to do. But I discovered that you can be who you choose to be.

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

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

We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

Every character I play has to be the hero of his own story, the way we're all heroes of our own lives.

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.

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.

The more control you have over your life, the more responsible you feel for your own success - or failure.

That person has to be accountable for himself. I think that's what we have to do in society today is to be accountable for yourself. I think we have the tendency to always want to live someone else's life.

Claiming your life for yourself feels like a huge deal until you do it.

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.