Ellen Hopkins Quotes

Know when to tune out, if you listen to too much advice you may wind up making other peoples mistakes.

The mistakes you make now count. Not for everything, and not forever. But they do matter, and they shape you.If you take nothing else from what I've been through, at least remember this: make your choices well. Because you'll always be accountable for them. That's what being an adult is all about.

When you repeat a mistake, it is not a mistake anymore: it is a decision.

Some of us are better at owning the responsibility of our actions than others.

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.

As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.

I always say, decisions I make, I live with them. There's always ways you can correct them or ways you can do them better. At the end of the day, I live with them.

I am not the kind of woman who excuses her mistakes while reminding us of what used to be.

If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.

When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.

It's essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself.

You ask me why I air your dirty laundry, but you do not ask yourself why you soil it to begin with.

I did what I did. I went against the grain. And I understand that I would be criticized. Those were all choices.

I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.

I believe acknowledging our own mistakes is half the problem solved.

You cannot always blame others if things go wrong.

The world demands I make good choices on no information, and then blames my maidenhood for my mistakes, as if my maidenhood were responsible for my ignorance. Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I do not like feeling stupid.

What people commonly call fate is mostly their own stupidity.

If one makes a mistake, then an apology is usually sufficient to get things back on an even keel. However-and this is a big ‘however’- most people do not ever know why their apology did not seem to have any effect. It is simply that they did not make a mistake; they made a choice…and never understood the difference between the two.

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

People should always know better.

I don't want to mess up my life. You only get one shot. I don't want to let my fans or anybody else down. So, I always think before I act. And as long as I do that, I'll be okay.

I will chide no breather in the world but myself, against whom I know most faults.

I always say that it's very important not to blame one person. You have to own whatever part of it you're responsible for. It takes a lot of soul-searching. It's important to go through that, because hopefully you won't repeat yourself.

Your failures won't hurt you until you start blaming them on others.