Victims Of Circumstance Quotes:

We do not have to be victims of circumstance.

- Kweisi Mfume

topic: Victim, Circumstances, Victims Of Circumstance

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

- Stedman Graham

topic: Leadership, People, Vision, Life Philosophy, Positive Change

So here's the flash: Continuing to live life as a victim of circumstance, forever focusing on what's wrong with everything and everybody, will never, ever, bring the life desired. It will only bring one thing: more of whatever it is we're wanting so desperately to change.

- Lynn Grabhorn

source: Lynn Grabhorn (2009). “Excuse Me, Your Life Is Waiting: The Astonishing Power of Feelings”, p.44, Hampton Roads Publishing

topic: Live Life, Forever, Victim, Victims Of Circumstance

The conflict between what one is and who one is expected to be touches all of us. And sometimes, rather than reach for what one could be, we choose the comfort of the failed role, preferring to be the victim of circumstance, the person who didn't have a chance.

- Merle Shain

topic: Roles, Comfort, Chance, Victims Of Circumstance

We can spend our days bemoaning our losses, or we can grow from them. Ultimately the choice is ours. We can be victims of circumstance or masters of our own fate, but make no mistake, we cannot be both. The Walk - Epilogue Page 288

- Richard Paul Evans

topic: Mistake, Fate, Loss, Victims Of Circumstance, Epilogues

Leadership exists when people are no longer victims of circumstances but participate in creating new circumstances. Leadership is about creating a domain in which human beings continually deepen their understanding of reality and become more capable of participating in the unfolding of the world. Ultimately, leadership is about creating new realities.

- Peter Senge

topic: Reality, Creating, People, Victims Of Circumstance

Take action. You can either be a passive victim of circumstance or you can be the active hero of your own life. Action is the antidote to apathy and cynicism and despair. You will inevitably make mistakes but at the end of your days, you will be remembered for your gallop, not for your stumble.

- Bradley Whitford

topic: Mistake, Hero, Despair, Victims Of Circumstance

We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

- Viktor E. Frankl

source: Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.55, Beacon Press

topic: Life, Positive, Leadership, Huts, Mans Search For Meaning

Love is rather impotent and pitiful: My father must have told me a million times how much he loved me, but that emotion - assuming it was even real - hardly had the strength to counter the many other acts of wrong he committed against me. Contrary to romance novels and the love-conquers-all mentality that even those of us who grow up in an era of divorce are - in response to some atavistic instinct - still raised to believe, love is always a product and a victim of circumstances. It is fragile and small.

- Elizabeth Wurtzel

topic: Growing Up, Father, Real, Victims Of Circumstance, Pitiful

I had my ups and downs and I fell a few times, but I did not give. Don't give up...

- Rachel Scott

source: "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

topic: Giving Up, Giving, Victims Of Circumstance

Successful people decide how they are going to live; they are not victims of circumstance. In good times or bad times, they know where they are going and they know that they are going to get there.

- Bob Proctor

topic: Success, People, Good Times, Victims Of Circumstance

When we succumb to believing that we are victims of our circumstances and yield to the plight of determinism, we lose hope, we lose drive, and we settle into resignation and stagnation.

- Stephen Covey

topic: Freedom, Believe, Yield, Victims Of Circumstance, Determinism

Take action. Every story you've ever connected with, every leader you've ever admired, every puny little thing that you've ever accomplished is the result of taking action. You have a choice. You can either be a passive victim of circumstance or you can be the active hero of your own life.

- Bradley Whitford

source: Bradley Whitford's Commencement Address at University of Wisconsin-Madison in in Madison, Wisconsin, news.wisc.edu. May 15, 2004.

topic: Graduation, Hero, Leader, Victims Of Circumstance

If you believe you are an effect of the world around you - that your happiness is dependent on this thing or that person - then you are always going to be a victim of circumstance to one degree or another.

- Lee L Jampolsky

source: Source: www.psychologytoday.com

topic: Believe, Degrees, World, Victims Of Circumstance

One can choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances.

- Viktor E. Frankl

topic: Freedom, Attitude, Positive Thinking, Huts, Mans Search For Meaning

I'd say people are victims of circumstances and they're limited to the opportunities that they see. Even though there might be more opportunities, you might not see them. You might just think, "I don't have any options." You usually go to the dark side, in that situation.

- Ice T

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Dark, Thinking, Opportunity, Victims Of Circumstance

Do you think in many ways, sir, you're the victim of circumstance now?

- Peter Jennings

topic: Thinking, Atheism, Way, Victims Of Circumstance

I got into rapping by being a victim of circumstances; it was a hard situation with my brother. Mainly my older brother got hit with a life sentence, so he kind of inspired me.

- Trae tha Truth

topic: Brother, Rap, Kind, Victims Of Circumstance

Ivy Hisselpenny was the unfortunate victim of circumstances that dictated she be only-just-pretty, only-just-wealthy, and possessed of a terrible propensity for wearing extremely silly hats.

- Gail Carriger

topic: Silly, Ivy, Hats, Victims Of Circumstance, Unfortunate Circumstances