Internal Locus Quotes

I am not responsible for what other people think. I am responsible only for what I myself think, and I know what that is. No idea I've ever come up with has ever struck me as a divine revelation. Nothing I have ever observed leads me to think there is a God watching over me.

When you realize that people treat you according to how they see themselves rather than how you really are, you are less likely to be affected by their behavior.

I think it's a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one's self.

I can only control what I do when I go compete.

When you think everything is someone else's fault, you will suffer a lot.

I started reading about people of great accomplishment... and it dawned on me suddenly that the person who has the most to do with what happens in your life is you.

High self-esteem comes from feeling like you have control over events not that events have control over you.

Nobody can make you angry without your consent, nobody can disappoint you without your consent, you have to give people consent to do these things.

Learn to distinguish what you can and can't control. Within our control are our own opinions, aspirations, desires and the things that repel us. They are directly subject to our influence.

To believe that your husband, wife, parents, kids, boss, job, bank account, or body is even partly responsible for your emotions, to think that there are bullets 'out there' that you have to contend with, that there are stressful life events to overcome, is to miss something vital.

My third maxim was to try always to conquer myself rather than fortune, and to change my desires rather than the order of the world, and generally to accustom myself to believing that there is nothing entirely in our power except our thoughts, so that after we have done our best regarding things external to us, everything in which we do not succeed is for us absolutely impossible.

I can only control the way I play.

The important thing is that I control my reaction, my behavior, my attitude and my words. What I receive back is not in my control.

Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.

I'm incredibly neurotic and a control freak. I like the thought that if there's going to be anyone to blame it's going to be me.

My future depends mostly upon myself.

I don't blame or complain about things like the economy, the government, taxes, employees, gas prices, or any of the external things that I don't have control over. The only thing I have control over is my response to these things.

What I had to learn was, that I'm only responsible for my perception of things. The world's not out to get you. That's not the way it works.

People who regard themselves as highly efficacious act, think, and feel differently from those who perceive themselves as inefficacious. They produce their own future, rather than simply foretell it.

I only have control over what I do.

Wrestling was the first time I thought, 'My leg is the thing that functions in this way to do this move, to get from A to B.' Instead of, like, 'My body's purpose is to suck it in so the male showrunner thinks it's attractive.'

We, we, and none else, are responsible for what we suffer. We are the effects, and we are the causes.

It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are.

Almost all unhappiness in life comes from the tendency to blame someone else.

In these words lies all his power: He chose the path along which he is walking and so has no complaints.