Noma Dumezweni Quotes

I am not a victim. I do not blame anyone for the circumstances of my life.

Everybody is not a victim.

It's not my style to blame anybody else.

If you're unhappy with your circumstances, then change them. Don't blame the government or your boss or the guy down the street who's better looking than you (exceptions include Hugh Jackman and George Clooney). Just take some Pepto-Bismol and be a man (or woman, for all of you bullish feminists).

I'm not a sympathetic guy when I see people throwing their lives away and using their life's obstacles as excuses to fail. I just don't buy into that.

I'm not a victim, and I don't need to behave like one.

In life, you can blame a lot of people and you can wallow in self-pity, or you can pick yourself up and say, 'Listen, I have to be responsible for myself.'

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.

One day I realized that I wasn't getting anywhere by blaming other people for my circumstances. I finally understood: Even if you feel someone has wronged you or owes you something, no one is going to give you anything for free.

All of the things that have happened in my life have been self-propelled. I can't blame anybody else or point a finger at anybody.

I take full responsibility for my life and my career.

You can't live your life blaming your failures on your parents and what they did or didn't do for you. You're dealt the cards that you're dealt. I realised it was a waste of time to be angry at my parents and feel sorry for myself.

A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.

When you blame others, you give up your power to change.

I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.

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.

The important thing is I've always been a responsible person. As a woman, too, you have to be a lot stronger. Things are always happening that if you let it bother you, you'll be mad all the time.

I'm not the kind of guy who will blame other people if things don't work out.

If you remember your past too well you start blaming your present for it. Look what they did to me, that's what caused me to be like this, it's not my fault. Permit me to correct you: it probably is your fault. And kindly spare me the details.

People who consider themselves victims of their circumstances will always remain victims unless they develop a greater vision for their lives.

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

Don't blame anyone or anything for your situation or problems. When you do that, you are saying that you are powerless over your own life—which is utter crap. An empowering step to reclaiming your life is taking responsibility.

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

I will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions.

I hope that you will learn to take responsibility for your decisions. Don't take counsel of your fears.