There are two types of people, those who are victims and those who are empowered. The victim focuses on the wrongs he has endured. The empowered focuses on not being a victim. --Steven R. Hobbs
Hard Work Wins
Hard work wins. You get out of life what you put into it. You cannot control the outcome, but you are one hundred percent in control of the effort. And before you complain about what somebody did to you or said to you, go to the nearest mirror, look at it and say, what could I have done to change the outcome? And no matter how good you are, how hard you work, sooner or later, bad things are gonna happen to you. How you deal with those bad things will tell your mother and me if we raised a man. –Randolph Elder in Dear Father, Dear Son by Larry Elder
Other People's Faults
“It’s silly to escape other people’s faults. They are inescapable. Just try to escape your own.” — Marcus Aurelius
5 Behaviors Guaranteed to Increase Happiness: #3 of 5
“View yourself as actively capable of making changes in your life, rather than as a passive, helpless victim. Make use of your own agency. Take responsibility for being the architect of much of your own misery, and choose to build success instead.” —Dr. Stephen Marmer; December 9, 2022; The Dennis Prager Show
Bad Attitude
“The only disability in life is a bad attitude.” --Scott Hamilton
Up and Down
“The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.” —Frederick Douglass
Most Common Tendencies
“One of the most common tendencies of human nature is that of placing responsibility on some external agency for sins we have committed or mistakes we have made.” —Martin Luther King, Jr.
Victim Empowered
“A victim is not empowered by the actions of others. A victim is empowered by their own determination to not live as a victim.” —Steven R. Hobbs