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You can only control your own actions. Not other people's reactions. -- Emily Giffin
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. -- Dalai Lama XIV
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. -- Dalai Lama XIV
One of the things you learn in rehab is that you're responsible for your own actions. -- Dale Archer
If you don't accept responsibility for your own actions then you are forever chained to a position of defense. -- Holly Lisle
Actions have consequences... first rule of life. And the second rule is this - you are the only one responsible for your own actions. -- Holly Lisle
My happiness isn't connected to my husband's or my boss's or my children's behavior. You have control over your own actions, your own well-being. -- Michelle Obama
You're only responsible for your own actions. You can't control how someone else reacts to what you do. You made a choice. Stand by it. -- Kekla Magoon
Evil is like a Vampire. When you take arms against it and destroy it, you find in the end that you are evil too-that it is living on your own actions. -- Denis Johnston
Ambition means tying your well-being to what other people say or do. Self-indulgence means tying it to the things that happen to you. Sanity means tying it to your own actions. -- Marcus Aurelius
There is never one absolutely right thing to do. All you can do is honor what you believe, accept the consequences of your own actions, and make the best out of what happens. -- Garth Nix
Military foolishness is ultimately suicidal. They believe that by risking death they pay the price of any violent behavior against enemies of their own choosing. They have the invader mentality, that false sense of freedom from responsibility for your own actions. -- Frank Herbert
I don't know if there is really an objective truth about either. I liken this to what Buddhism says about the individual, that change starts with the individual. I think it is really about purifying your own actions, and I have seen that in my own life. -- Karan Bajaj
Once you're more aware of people's needs, you can create action plans for others to follow. That way, you're responsible for your own well-being, too. -- Deepak Chopra
I think it's very important that you make your own decision about what you are. Therefore you're responsible for your actions, so you don't blame other people. -- Prince William
Your life will be no better than the plans you make and the action you take. You are the architect and builder of your own life, fortune, destiny. -- Alfred Armand Montapert
You have to take control of your own life, your own destiny, and your own careers. You can't leave everything up to someone else, 'cause then you can look at them and blame them. -- Action Bronson
Because you basically won a close re-election, your first task is to unify the city. And it's done not with words but with actions, by reaching out, to the supporters of your opponent as well as to reassure your own supporters. -- Marc Morial
Changing what you don't like about yourself can be empowering, and that's not a bad thing. Feeling secure enough to own what is weak and missing from either your body, mind or spirit and to commit to action to change it is a good thing. -- Teri Hatcher
I pattern my actions and life after what I want. No two people are alike. You might admire attributes in others, but use these only as a guide in improving yourself in your own unique way. I don't go for carbon copies. Individualism is sacred! -- Richard Chamberlain
A novel is utterly your own creation, a very private process. I think of a novel as a noun and a screenplay as a verb. In a novel, very little needs to happen; you can explore a person's memories and thoughts and fantasies. In a screenplay, it's all action; you must push the story on. -- Deborah Moggach
You can't please everyone. When you're too focused on living up to other people's standards, you aren't spending enough time raising your own. Some people may whisper, complain and judge. But for the most part, it's all in your head. People care less about your actions than you think. Why? They have their own problems! -- Kris Carr
Activate Your Goodness' explains how we all have a stake in our collective future, each and every person in their own unique way. As I see it, it is all about personally taking responsibility for our actions, and fully realizing that by thinking good, speaking good and doing good, you can find your place in life. -- Shari Arison
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. -- Lesley Manville
Imagination, it turns out, is a great deal like reporting in your own head. Here is a paradox of fiction-writing. You are crafting something from nothing, which means, in one sense, that none of it is true. Yet in the writing, and perhaps in the reading, some of a character's actions or lines are truer than others. -- Amy Waldman
The whole idea of being mesmerized and not in control of your own actions is fascinating and a little spooky. I remember hearing about someone who'd gone to a magic act, and a person in the audience had become hypnotized by observing too closely what magician was doing on stage, and thought it was spooky to lose your consciousness that way. -- Chris Van Allsburg
Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth. -- Bradley Whitford
Create your own tomorrows with your thoughts and actions - today. -- Catherine DeVrye
Accepting responsibility for the actions of others contributes to your own greatness. -- Edwin Louis Cole
When the actions of others no longer matter, then you will have succeeded within your own mind. -- Jo De Raman
You cannot stop destructive actions by others, but you can stop your own destructive reactions to them -- Vernon Howard

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