Looking for quotes about victim mentality? We have rounded up the best collection of victim mentality quotes, sayings, captions, (with images and pictures) which will inspire you give up your victim mindset.
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Victim mentality is an personality trait in which a person tends to regard him or herself as a victim of all negative situations. Playing victim can take a toll on emotional well-being and is toxic for themselves. Such people self sympathize alot and fee sad, frustrated and angry with world that seems against them.
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These victim mentality quotes will give you a clear perspective on things and inspire you to be positive and stop playing the victim in life.
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Victim Mentality Quotes
- “Healing begins when you shed the ‘victim mentality’.” — Unknown
- “A victim mentality is a prolonged form of suicide.” — Steve Maraboli
- “Take responsibility of your life and you will take control of your life.” — Unknown
- “You can’t expect to be a victor if you’re living with a victim mentality.” — Billy Cox
- “You’re only a victim to the degree of what your perception allows.” — Shannon L. Alder
- “Feminism…is not ‘women as victims’ but women refusing to be victims.” — Gloria Steinem
- “Baseless victimhood is usually the last stage before outright aggression.” — Stefan Molyneux
- “Nobody with a victim mentality will get anywhere, ever. They will never succeed.” — Jon Lovitz
- “The victim mentality may be the last uncomplicated thing about life in America.” — Anna Quindlen
- “Defeat is a state of mind; No one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.” — Bruce Lee
- “A person with victim mentality cannot find himself, his life mission, and go towards his aims.” — Sunday Adelaja
- “A man with a victim mentality attracts autocrats into his life who will decide how he should live.” — Sunday Adelaja
- “A man with a victim mentality feels like being a victim who is complaining and crying all the time.” — Sunday Adelaja
- “I am not a victim. No matter what I have been through, I’m still here. I have a history of victory.” — Steve Maraboli
- “Those with a perpetual victim mindset tend to create the situations from which they suffer.” — Steve Maraboli
- “The victim mindset will have you dancing with the devil, then complaining that you’re in hell.” — Steve Maraboli
- “People with victim mentality do not have the habit of thinking on their own or thinking in general.” — Sunday Adelaja
- “Victims declare,”The world is responsible for me,” and never do anything to better their quality of life.” — Henry Cloud
- “The only way you can own this moment is to evict the victim mentality from the dwelling of your mind.” — Steve Maraboli
- “If you are a person with victim mentality, start making decisions on your own and live using your own mind.” — Sunday Adelaja
- “Abandon the idea that you will forever be the victim of the things that have happened to you. Choose to be a victor.” — Seth Adam Smith
- “When you complain you make yourself a victim. Leave the situation, change the situation or accept it, all else is madness.” — Eckhart Tolle
- “People with victim mentality spend their energy not on achieving their target but on meaningless complaints.” — Sunday Adelaja
- “People who have a victim mentality – those who constantly tend to blame others – never walk in the victory Jesus promises.” — Perry Noble
- “As I’d seen over and again, people who see themselves as victims sometimes don’t notice when they become oppressors.” — Souad Mekhennet
- “Selfish people also tend to have victim mindsets … Their actions plant seeds of loneliness; then they cry upon the blooming.” — Steve Maraboli
- “Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.” — Harvey Fierstein
- “Stop validating your victim mentality. Shake off your self-defeating drama and embrace your innate ability to recover and achieve.” — Steve Maraboli
- “People with victim mentality find it impossible to depend on themselves to solve in dealing with problems and tend to wait for savior.” — Sunday Adelaja
- “Empaths did not come into this world to be victims, we came to be warriors. Be brave. Stay strong. We need all hands on deck.” — Anthon St. Maarten
- “The feeling of superiority is a defect that tends to accompany a victim mentality…as if you deserved any merit for being a product of fate.” — Rosa Montero
- “People with victim mentality get accustomed to life with an assistance of someone’s mind, waiting for someone to make decisions for him.” — Sunday Adelaja
- “The main problem of a person with victim mentality is that he is incapable of thinking over his life and consequently cannot reach his goals.” — Sunday Adelaja
- “People with victim mentality, consider actions such as making decisions, setting goals and achieving them to be nothing more than formidable obstacles.” — Sunday Adelaja
- “People with victim mentality often do not have life purpose, because they do not know how to acquire them unless someone plans their future for them.” — Sunday Adelaja
- “The problem that we have with a victim mentality is that we forget to see the blessings of the day. Because of this, our spirit is poisoned instead of nourished.” — Steve Maraboli
- “People with victim mentality attracts people in their lives that tease them, abuse them and even bully them instead of building mutually benefitting relationships.” — Sunday Adelaja
- “We are stuck in the maize that we created. Most people keep complaining about being stuck rather than finding the way out, and they call themselves unlucky!” — Maddy Malhotra
- “Some people get exactly what they always wanted … and throw it away. This is the cyclical behavior of someone who has built a life on the foundation of a victim mentality.” — Steve Maraboli
- “Erase the victim mentality. Remember you are capable of achieving greatness. If only you’d believe in your abilities to overcome. You are victorious. Celebrate the victory.” — Amaka Imani Nkosazana
- “It is easier to be a mere performer and not to make serious decisions, to live with an assistance of someone else’s mind and obey someone else’s command when you are a person of victim mentality.” — Sunday Adelaja
- “Victim Mentality. Some choose to believe that there is nothing they can do to solve their problems, even when they in fact could. Victims seek to blame others for their problems or blame outside circumstances.” — Mark Manson
- “I was a redhead and a middle child; both can make you feel excluded. It’s like fighting to be included, in the swim of things. After a while you start to develop a bit of a victim mentality, which isn’t great for a happy life.” — Shirley Manson
- “We need to be careful not to fall into the victim mindset. This usually happens because we have a dis-empowering perspective of the circumstance. We forget about “who we are” in Christ and that God is in control.” — Michael Barbarulo
- “Where I had felt a victim, I had become a determiner by recognizing I had choices. When considering a purchase, I stopped saying, “I can’t afford it,” and started saying, “That’s not where I want to spend that amount of money.” — Oriah Mountain Dreamer
- “There’s a strong victim mentality in my generation. I think it’s spiritual laziness. They will agree that God is sovereign over all, but then they will say, “Well, I wish he would sovereignly take away my lust issue.” There’s just not a lot of fortitude, not a lot of fight in them.” — Matt Chandler
- “When you choose to act on your problems, you cease to be a victim of circumstance and become a force of change; that’s when you transition to not only being a survivor, but to being a leader or hero too, and an inspiration to those still in the victim’s mindset.” — Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
- “There is a fine line between compassion and a victim mentality. Compassion though is a healing force and comes from a place of kindness towards yourself. Playing the victim is a toxic waste of time that not only repels other people, but also robs the victim of ever knowing true happiness.” — Bronnie Ware
- “It is not uncommon for someone to be a self-saboteur and compound that by also having a victim mentality. It is as though they are holding their own breath and then blaming others for their inability to breathe. If they can break free from this cycle, everything in their life changes for the better.” — Steve Maraboli
- “Your complaints, your drama, your victim mentality, your whining, your blaming, and all of your excuses have NEVER gotten you even a single step closer to your goals or dreams. Let go of your nonsense. Let go of the delusion that you DESERVE better and go EARN it! Today is a new day!” — Steve Maraboli
- “I have no physical symptoms, but psychologically there’s this burden. I’ve got to get rid of it somehow. Of course, when I first went back to work I was scared the same thing might happen again. It takes positive thinking to overcome fear, otherwise you’ll carry around this victim mentality forever.” — Haruki Murakami
- “We’re dealing with an entire generation of people who are absolutely committed to taking zero responsibility for their lives. Everything is somebody else’s fault. Classic victim mentality. Don’t worry, we’ll clean up the mess for you. We’ll pick up the check. We’ll tip the waiter. You hear it day in and day out from the…” — Matthew Norman
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