M. Scott Peck Quotes

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.

I HAVE ALWAYS believed that each man makes his own happiness and is responsible for his own problems.

No one can afford to assume that someone else will solve their problems.

I will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions.

You see, I have in my teaching - I always say I've done it for a hundred years and have had thousands of students - I have always spoken against just falling onto your knees for so-called accidents, I mean a result you are not responsible for.

Trust yourself so that the mistakes you make are the ones you've made and not something you've made because you were afraid to do what you wanted to do. Own your mistakes, then you can own your successes.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

The important thing is to concentrate upon what you can do - by yourself, upon your own initiative.

Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.

I've been writing on my own. It's like Roger Miller used to say, every now and then, like a dog having puppies, you have to crawl under the house and do it yourself.

The one with the primary responsibility to the individual's future is that individual.

Every problem we have in this country we created and we can fix it.

A lot of times, people make other people responsible for their joy: 'You're not making me happy, you're not doing this, you're not doing that.'

I'm not the kind of guy who will blame other people if things don't work out.

I don't believe in legacy. I feel that the 'mega' tag definitely acts as a platform, but after that, it's all on the individual. Legacy does not mean a crown that is passed on; we have to create our own paths.

Nobody's going to help me when I get in that ring. That's how I like it: the responsibility's on me, and whatever happens is down to me, nobody else.

You'll never get ahead by blaming your problems on other people.

My dad once told me: no matter what anyone says or writes, really, none of those people have to hit your four- foot putt.You have to go do it yourself.

If you want things to be right, you have to do them yourself

I'm someone who doesn't believe in making my problems other people's problems.

For one cannot assume that God exists to help people who are too cowardly and too lazy to help themselves and think that God exists only to make up for the weakness of mankind. He does not exist for that purpose. He has always, at all times, blessed only those who were prepared to fight their own battles.

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.

A strong man cannot help a weaker unless the weaker is willing to be helped, and even then the weak man must become strong of himself; he must, by his own efforts, develop the strength which he admires in another. None but himself can alter his condition.

God gives you the resources for success. But it is up to you to recognize them and use them to their fullest.