“My mother always taught me to be strong and to never be a victim. Never make excuses. Never expect anyone else to provide for me things I know I can provide for myself.” KnowsI CanMotherStrongTaughtVictimExcuseNever Expect Author:Beyonce Knowles
“...Jews must learn to say without excuse, without equivocation: despite our history and our powerlessness in the past, despite allthe injustices that we have endured--today, now, the Palestinians are the victims of oppression, and their oppressors are the Israelis.” TodayPastVictimInjusticeJewExcuseDespiteOppressionPalestinianOppressorsPowerlessness Author:Irena Klepfisz
“All of us are prone to excuse our own mediocre performance. We blame our misfortunes, our disfigurements, our so-called handicaps. Victims of our own rationalization, we say silently to ourselves, 'I'm just too weak,' or 'I'm not cut out for better things.' Others soar beyond our meager accomplishments. Envy and discouragement take their toll. .” CuttingWeakPerformancesVictimBlameExcuseEnvyAccomplishmentMisfortunesMediocreSoarDiscouragementTollsHandicapsDisfigurement Author:Thomas S. Monson
“When you're a victim, you automatically have a built-in excuse for failure. When you are a victim, it's always somebody else's fault. When you're a victim, success is not possible. When you are a victim of something, you are acknowledging that you are as far as you're gonna get, and you can't get any further, because there are more powerful forces arrayed against you than the force of yourself against it.” ForcePowerfulBuiltVictimFaultsExcuse Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Being a victim doesn't take much. There are built-in excuses for failure. Built-in excuses for being miserable. Built-in excuses for being angry all the time. No reason to trying to be happy; it's not possible. You're a victim. Victim of what? Well, you're a victim of derision. Well, you're a victim of America. You're a victim of America's past, or you're a victim of religion. You're a victim of bigotry, of homophobia, whatever. You're a victim of something. The Democrats got one for you. If you want to be a victim, call 'em up.” IfsWantTryingWellsReasonAmericaPastBuiltVictimAngryDemocratExcuseMiserableEmsNo ReasonBigotryHomophobiaDerisionTrying To Be Happy Author:Rush Limbaugh
“A lot of people do want to be victims. It's easy. It's an excuse for not doing anything and an excuse for failing. Being a victim means somebody else is responsible for everything going wrong in your life. So Democrats love plugging as many people as they can into victim status.” PeopleMeanEasyFailingResponsibleVictimDemocratExcuse Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Most people don't have that willingness to break bad habits. They have a lot of excuses and they talk like victims.” PeopleBreakHabitVictimExcuseWillingnessBad Habits Author:Carlos Santana
“Atrocity is recognized as such by victim and predator alike, by all who learn about it at whatever remove. Atrocity has no excuses, no mitigating argument. Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity. It is self-perpetuating upon itself - a barbarous form of incest. Whoever commits atrocity also commits those future atrocities thus bred.” SelfPastFormArmsBalanceArgumentVictimExcuseCommitRemoveAtrocitiesPredatorNo ExcusesPerpetuatingRectifyAtrocities Committed Author:Frank Herbert
“Perhaps the sexual life is the great test. If we can survive it with charity to those we love and with affection to those we have betrayed, we needn't worry so much about the good and the bad in us. But jealousy, distrust, cruelty, revenge, recrimination ... then we fail. The wrong is in that failure even if we are the victims and not the executioners. Virtue is no excuse.” IfsLife IsWorryVirtueFailingTestsVictimCharityAffectionExcuseRevengeCrueltyDistrustBetrayedNo ExcusesThose We LoveExecutioners Book:The Comedians Source: The Comedians
“We do not admire, we hardly excuse, the fanatic who wrecks this world for love of the other. But what are we to say of the fanatic who wrecks this world out of hatred of the other? He sacrifices the very existence of humanity to the non-existence of God. He offers his victims not to the altar, but merely to assert the idleness of the altar and the emptiness of the throne. He is ready to ruin even that primary ethic by which all things live, for his strange and eternal vengeance upon some one who never lived at all.” WorldHumanityExistenceSacrificeThis WorldStrangeReadyOffersEternalEthicsAll ThingsHatredVictimExcuseAdmireRuinsPrimariesEmptinessThronesVengeanceIdlenessAltarsFanaticsWrecksExistence Of GodNon Existence Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton
“Victims make excuses. Leaders deliver results.” InspirationalInspirationMotivationalResultsPowerfulLeaderAchievementVictimExcuse Author:Robin Sharma
“If you are not the victim, don't examine it entirely from your point of view because when YOU'RE not the victim, it becomes pretty easy to rationalize and excuse cruelty, injustice, inequality, slavery, and even murder. But when you're the victim, things look a lot differently from that angle.” IfsLooksEasyViewsMurderVictimSlaveryInjusticeExcusePoint Of ViewCrueltyInequalityAngleRationalize Author:Gary Yourofsky
“Abuse is always wrong. Some try to excuse it. Most perpetrators have a sense of entitlement, thinking their actions are justified. Ironically, their victims may also believe they deserve to be mistreated. Some will even defend their abuser, citing his or her earnest apologies afterward. But abuse in any form, for any reason, wounds both spouses. It's always sinful, and few things destroy trust in a marriage as quickly. Regardless of childhood pain or marital conflict, mature spouses learn to set limits so anger doesn't become abuse by frequency, degree, or duration.” ThinkingTryingBelieveMayReasonActionPainFormChildhoodConflictLimitsDegreesDeserveAbuseVictimExcuseWoundsMatureApologySpouseJustifiedEarnestFrequencyEntitlementDurationAbusersPerpetratorsCitingAlways WrongMistreatedSense Of Entitlement Author:Rob Jackson
“Don't be a victim. Be busy with your horse so you stay out of trouble - otherwise, trouble will come and find you”, Brannaman would say. “Be assertive but don't be aggressive, if you are aggressive you'll make the horse flighty. The horse needs perimeters like anyone else. Give them guidance, support, rules. The same rules. Don't change the game. Don't let them have excuses just cause of their past. And love them.” IfsNeedsGivingPastGamesCausesSupportTroubleAnd LoveHorseVictimBusyExcuseGuidanceAggressiveDon't ChangeAssertivePerimeter Author:Buck Brannaman