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Quotes About Self-reliance

The big thing I learned from Chris Rock was not to be a victim of show business. Don't let show business push you around.
~ W. Kamau Bell
I don't like to play the victim.
~ Barry Pepper
I don't want to be a victim.
~ Carrie Fisher
I can't do victim roles - it makes me sick.
~ Robin McLeavy
Everybody is not a victim.
~ Bill Cosby
When my father left us, my mother went back to school immediately. She went to school in the day while we were at school, and she worked at night. She worked very hard to never let someone define her as a victim or a failure.
~ Ginni Rometty
You're not a victim of your divorce. What you decide to do with yourself and your personal life after your marriage ends is your decision, and completely under your control.
~ Emily V. Gordon
I'm not a victim.
~ Stacey Dash
I'm a supporter of female entrepreneurs. I don't feel like a victim, and I try to not think of myself as one.
~ Brit Morin
I'm not a victim, and I don't need to behave like one.
~ Lizzie Armitstead
I don't do the victim mode. I don't do blame. I can't bear that.
~ Noma Dumezweni
I am not the victim, and I won't be the victim in football or life.
~ Mauricio Pochettino
I don't believe in being a victim. I think with information and motivation, you can do anything.
~ Dion DiMucci
If someone would tease me about my hair, I would laugh... if someone called me black, I would laugh. I just took things in my stride. I was never made a victim.
~ Masaba Gupta
I am not a victim. I do not blame anyone for the circumstances of my life.
~ Nadya Suleman
Of all the things I feel, I do not feel myself to be a victim - not in any collectively accessible way.
~ Thomas Chatterton Williams
I dont want to be a victim, nor be portrayed as one.
~ Davina McCall
There is a fetishization of victimization in our culture. And I just am not interested in victimhood.
~ Alan Ball
That was a sin: to consider yourself victimized or not able to control your destiny or your fate - that was the one cardinal sin in our community.
~ Condoleezza Rice
Mostly I'm telling people that they don't have to be victims.
~ Anne McCaffrey
We do not invest in victims, we invest in survivors.
~ Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
When I got out of my Twenties I stopped playing women that were victims. I like playing women who are strong and have a piece of mind.
~ Kim Cattrall
There is no room for military people, including our veterans, to see themselves as victims, even if so many of our countrymen are prone to relish that role.
~ Jim Mattis
If we live in a society that is stuck in victimhood, we will have lots of victims.
~ Martha MacCallum