Ted Danson Quotes

Mostly I'm telling people that they don't have to be victims.

I don't believe in being a victim. I think with information and motivation, you can do anything.

Growing up, I looked to people who had the same issues as me and were still living great lives.

Everybody is not a victim.

Taking the future in your own hands has a fantastic psychological impact.

If we really want liberty - if we really want liberty - then we need to go out and get it, we need to take it, because nobody is going to give it to us. And we need to do it now.

I got my start by giving myself a start.

All I'm focused on is playing my game. Everything else will take care of itself.

Nobody is going to love and honor your dreams like yourself. It's really not looking for someone to be your superhero but for us to save ourselves and to really understand that. I've been at the lowest of lowest of my life, and it took that for me to realize that I want to do better and to be better.

If you're unhappy with your circumstances, then change them. Don't blame the government or your boss or the guy down the street who's better looking than you (exceptions include Hugh Jackman and George Clooney). Just take some Pepto-Bismol and be a man (or woman, for all of you bullish feminists).

I'm not a victim, and I don't need to behave like one.

What I'm learning about myself is, no matter what the challenge is, I can overcome it.

I'm a can-do girl.

Resolve to throw off the influences of any unfortunate environment, and to build your own life to order.

Complaining about your current position in life is worthless. Have a spine and do something about it instead.

I want to have an impact because I don't want anybody to have to go through what I went through.

When Marcus Garvey spoke about self-reliance, he wasn't only talking about people of colour. It's like self-reliance in general, for anyone. Just keep moving and moving within the right direction, and everything will be all right.

Everyone has egos, and you want to come out on top. You have to pick yourself up and go at it again.

One has to take initiative in life to achieve what he or she wants.

I am not a victim. I am an angry survivor.

We do not have to accept our current circumstances. We will change them. We are Americans. That's what we do.

I was raised to be an independent woman, not the victim of anything.

The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.

People from the most horrendous of childhoods can have good lives, but it comes down to a very seemingly simple word. 'Choice.'

This above all, to refuse to be a victim.