Nora Roberts Quotes

You can only whine for so long. Then you need to get your life back.

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.

That's it. I'm going to start making the right choices.

There comes a certain point in life when you have to stop blaming other people for how you feel or the misfortunes in your life. You can't go through life obsessing about what might have been.

I had to find the courage to turn my life around.

You have to figure out how you can step forward and affect your own life. I think that sense of empowerment is actually really positive, specifically for the young generation because they've been bystanders in their own lives for a while.

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

Focus on your dream and do everything in your power. You have the power to change your life circumstances.

It's never too late to turn things around. You are the only obstacle.

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

Every man is the architect of his own life. He builds it just the way he wants it. However, after he has built what he wants, he sometimes decides that he doesn't like what he has built and looks for someone or something to blame instead of changing himself.

No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

I take responsibility for myself and what I do now.

I just don't want to live like I used to. And at some point, I'm going to put a gag order on myself in terms of talking about the past. I've got to slam the door and deal with the present and the future.

Your desires will source you with the inspiration to release your outdated beliefs and let go of whatever behavior is keeping you stuck in the past.

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

As I told the students every time I visited a campus, you are the director of your own movie, and if you aren't enjoying what you are doing, change it.

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.

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

If it's never our fault, we can't take responsibility for it. If we can't take responsibility for it, we'll always be its victim.

One of the things you learn in rehab is that you're responsible for your own actions.

My goal is always transformation. I love to watch people transform their lives, which includes their inner world and their outer world.

One day I realized that I wasn't getting anywhere by blaming other people for my circumstances. I finally understood: Even if you feel someone has wronged you or owes you something, no one is going to give you anything for free.

You need someone who is going to help you make that better version of yourself.

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