Amelia Atwater-Rhodes Quotes

I look at myself as a product of my choices, not a victim of my circumstances.

There are no victims, only volunteers.

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

Many of us have had the attitude that life is something that happens to us and that all we can do is make the best of it. It is basically a victim's position, giving power to people and things outside of ourselves. We are beginning to realize that the power rests in us, that we can choose to create our life the way we want it to be.

Everybody is not a victim.

How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is.

You are the master of your own ship, pal. There are lots of people who fall into troubled waters and don't have the guts or the knowledge or the ability to make it to shore. They have nobody to blame but themselves.

The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.

You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.

Everything starts with yourself, with you making up your mind about what you're going to do with your life. I tell kids that it's a cruel world, and that the world will bend them either left or right, and it's up to them to decide which way to bend.

Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.

You control what you can control.

I'm my own harshest critic but I'm also master of my own destiny.

I don't believe in being a victim. I think with information and motivation, you can do anything.

I think I just have to control what I can control. I can control myself. I can't control anything else but what I do. I definitely know I can do a better job at that.

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

The only thing I can control is myself. I can't control what anyone thinks about me, I can't control circumstance, I can't control the things that God controls.

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

It's easy to fall into victim mode and feel like the world is against you. The truth is, people aren't against you: they're just for themselves. The only thing within your control is how you react and respond to the chaotic dance of life.

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

We do not have to be victims of circumstance.

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

People say 'Poor guy.' That insults me. I despise sympathy. So I screwed up. I made some mistakes. 'Poor guy,' like I'm some victim. There's nothing poor about me.

In this life, you have to be your own hero.

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