Morgan Freeman Quotes

Whenever you think something or some person is ruining your life, it's you. A victimization mentality is so debilitating.

If you don't want to be a victim, don't act like one.

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 are no victims, only volunteers.

No one can make you a victim but yourself.

Do you see yourself as a victim of the world, or do you see yourself as the world?

We can only make ourselves the victim.

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

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

Everybody is not a victim.

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

Looking for approval or blaming others or feeling like a victim. Whenever I feel myself doing that I try to stop and see myself as someone who's a creator in more ways than just what the word typically means.

In any bad situation you can not let yourself be a victim.

You create your own luck by the way you play. There is no such luck as bad luck. Fate has nothing to do with success or failure, because that is a negative philosophy that indicts one's confidence, and I'll have no part of it.

We cannot have a world where everyone is a victim. "I'm this way because my father made me this way. I'm this way because my husband made me this way." Yes, we are indeed formed by traumas that happen to us. But you must take charge, you must take over, you are responsible.

In every moment you have the choice to be a victim or a creator.

Words have power. Use the language of leadership versus the vocabulary of a victim.

No person on earth has the power to make you unhappy. There is no event on earth that has the power to disturb you or hurt you. No event, condition, situation, or person. Nobody told you this; they told you the opposite. That's why you're in the mess you're in right now. That is why you're asleep. They never told you this. But it's self-evident.

I've never really seen myself in the role of the victim.

You cannot be successful and continue to be a victim.

No one needs to feel sorry for me or anyone else who has fallen victim to success.

Whenever we seek to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we do so by attempting to give that responsibility to some other individual or organization or entity. But this means we then give away our power to that entity.

Somewhere we turn ourselves into victims instead of being the powerful women we really are meant to be.

Too often, we get attention and sympathy by being a victim. If we're invested in someone being our villain, we must love being the victim. We have to let go of both characters in the story.

We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility.