M. Scott Peck Quotes

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.

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

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.

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

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

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.

When you blame others, you give up your power to change.

If you choose to take a path in life, don't blame other people for the path you've chosen to take.

You are responsible for your life. It doesn't matter what your Mama did. It doesn't matter what your Daddy didn't do. You are responsible for your life.

Our lives are the results of our choices. To blame and accuse other people, the environment, or other extrinsic factors is to choose to empower those things to control us.

As long as you feel like a victim, you are one.

If you don't accept responsibility for your own actions then you are forever chained to a position of defense.

The power to affect your future lies within your own hands.

You gain or lose power according to the choices that you make.

Dont blame me, I was given this world, I didn't make it.

Accept that you are where you are and what you are because of your own choices and decisions.

To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself of responsibility.

Understanding one's own power is more interesting than someone being given something powerful.

There's no more of an excuse for blaming other people or the world for at least not trying what you should be trying.

If he's alive, everything is in his power! Whose fault is it that he doesn't understand that?

We cannot have a world where everyone is a victim. "I'm this way because my father made me this way. I'm this way because my husband made me this way." Yes, we are indeed formed by traumas that happen to us. But you must take charge, you must take over, you are responsible.

Blaming something else makes that something else cause; and as that cause takes on power, the individual in the same act loses control and becomes effect.

Everything you do in life, I don't care, good or bad - don't blame God, don't blame the devil, don't blame me, blame you. You control everything! The thoughts you think, the words you utter, the foods you eat, the exercise you do. Everything is controlled by you.

Everything we do we choose. So what is there to regret? You are the person you chose to be.