Lesley Manville Quotes

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.

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

I take accountability for being dumb and irresponsible.

If I had the opportunity to give President Trump any advice, and I had to boil it down to one thing, I suppose it would be that nobody ever got better at any job by blaming everybody else whenever anything goes wrong.

Until you are willing to accept total and complete responsibility for every aspect of your life, your life will keep sending you experiences designed to get your attention.

Most people would rather change their circumstances to improve their lives when instead they need to change themselves to improve their circumstances. They put in just enough effort to distance themselves from their problems without ever trying to go after the root, which can often be found in themselves. Because they don't try to change the source of their problems, their problems keep coming back at them.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

There was a time when my whole life was in chaos, really, and I didn't help myself sort it out. But one day I came to my senses, and I think I was lucky because a lot of people don't.

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

Initially, I know that I handled it worse than she did and I think partly because I've always been... every bit of adversity I've faced up until the last year and a half is adversity I brought upon myself - or the opposing teams have given me.

Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.

I take ownership of every mistake I've ever made.

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project.

And it's not a finger-pointing issue to me; I take as much responsibility as I can. It was more just me not really knowing what I wanted to do and how to get it done.

Find fault with thyself rather than with others.

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

At some point, you've got to realize, you're either a leading man or you're not.

People change when they tell themselves they have to change. People do not change when you tell them they have to change.

Own your problems.

When I turned 30, I had this epiphany that my life is my own and my choices are my own.