L. Ron Hubbard Quotes

We are responsible for actions performed in response to circumstances for which we are not responsible.

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.

Those that say that individuals are not capable of changing anything are only looking for excuses.

If you continue to blame other people for “making” you feel guilty, they still have power over you, and you are saying that you will only feel good when they stop doing that. You are giving them control over your life. Stop blaming other people.

You only get to be a victim once. After that, you're a volunteer.

This isn't just 'the way things are.' This is the way you made them. This is the result of your choices, your actions. Yours.

If you act like a victim, you are likely to be treated as one.

Placing the blame or judgment on someone else leaves you powerless to change your experience; taking responsibility for your beliefs and judgments gives you the power to change them

Any problems that may occur have ultimately been caused by you, because you are responsible for where you are and what you are doing there.

But things don't just fall apart. People break them.

Instead of seeking to pinpoint blame, seek to understand cause.

Stand up, be bold, and take the blame on your own shoulders. Do not go about throwing mud at others; for all the faults you suffer from, you are the sole and only cause.

You have yourself to blame.

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

Everybody has some responsibility. The point is, how are we going to fix it? And you don't fix it simply by blaming the other guy, or blaming the past.

Your suffering is never caused by the person you're blaming.

No one to blame! That was why most people led lives they hated, with people they hated. How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right. You may be fragmented, but you feel absolved of all the blame for it. Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

If you should see people in a room, you would not think that you had made those people, or that you were responsible for them.

This misfortune you find is of your own manufacture.

A little understanding of "As you sow, so shall you reap" is important, because then you can't blame the condition you're in on anyone else.

How we love to blame others for our misfortunes! Almost every individual who has lost money in stock speculation has on the tip of his tongue an explanation which he trots out to show that it wasn't his own fault at all.... Hardly one loser has the manliness to say frankly, "I was wrong.

Blame is a neat little device that you can use whenever you don't want to take responsibility for something in your life. Use it and you will avoid all risks and impede your own growth.

You cannot become a power in your community nor achieve enduring success in any worthy undertaking until you become big enough to blame yourself for your own mistakes and reverses.

As long as you think that the cause of your problem is "out there" - as long as you think that anyone or anything is responsible for your suffering - the situation is hopeless. It means that you are forever in the role of victim, that you’re suffering in paradise.