Abuse Quotes & Encouraging Quotations For Victims Of Violence

Abuse Quotes
~ Stand Up & Reclaim Your Life ~

Stop violence! Here are abuse quotes and motivational quotes for you to stand up, speak up, break free and move on with a better life.

Domestic violence, child abuse, bullying are serious issues and should not be ignored. Abuse, be it physically, emotionally, sexually or verbally, hurts the victim a lot. The impact is incredibly devastating.

The truth is, no one should ever be beaten, threatened, bullied or controlled under any circumstances.

If you are a victim of abuse, never give in and never give up! Read these stop abuse quotes.

Stop abuse quotes:
There would be no one to frighten you if you refused to be afraid. (Mohandas K. Gandhi)

You might feel intense fear and anxiety, but you need to face it. This might be easier to be said than done, especially if he/she often hurts you physically. However it’s important that you stand firm for yourself, help yourself. When you are not frightened, you are claiming that you are not weak, powerless and you set a barrier for them not to come near and harm you.

Stop abuse quotes:
If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.
(Michael Jordan)

If you are constantly being belittled, teased or scolded, you might experience low self esteem and lack of confidence. Don’t let anyone tell you that you are unworthy, unwanted or useless. That is just the tactics they used to gain control over you. Instead, remember that you are precious, important and loveable!

Stop abuse quotes:
Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
(Jesse Jackson)

There might be a lot of worries that stop you from leaving the abuser, like financial issue (If you have been depending on him for a long time) or safety problem (If he threatened to abuse you more violently). But please don’t feel helpless or hopeless. Never surrender! There are many support groups and helplines that you can seek for assistance.

Please read the following abuse quotes and domestic violence quotes so you can gain courage and motivation to make a change, step out of the abusive situation and rebuild your life.

Always keep in mind that you deserved a good, safe, peaceful and loving life. YES! YOU DO!

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Domestic violence causes far more pain than the visible marks of bruises and scars. It is devastating to be abused by someone that you love and think loves you in return. It is estimated that approximately 3 million incidents of domestic violence are reported each year in the United States.
Dianne Feinstein

One in three women may suffer from abuse and violence in her lifetime. This is an appalling human rights violation, yet it remains one of the invisible and under-recognized pandemics of our time. Violence against women is an appalling human rights violation. But it is not inevitable. We can put a stop to this.
Nicole Kidman

All violence is the result of people tricking themselves into believing that their pain derives from other people and that consequently those people deserve to be punished.
Marshall Rosenberg

This is not love. It is a crime... You can't look the other way just because you have not experienced domestic violence with your own flesh.
Salma Hayek

The right things to do are those that keep our violence in abeyance; the wrong things are those that bring it to the fore.
Robert J. Sawyer

A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That's where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It's having backbone.
Robert Kiyosaki

Stop Bullying. No one deserves to feel worthless.
Rebecca Black

No woman has to be a victim of physical abuse. Women have to feel like they are not alone.
Salma Hayek

Some people won't be happy until they've pushed you to the ground. What you have to do is have the courage to stand your ground and not give them the time of day. Hold on to your power and never give it away.
Donna Schoenrock

The bullying stopped when I claimed myself and proved that I wasn't afraid. A lot of it was when I was hiding when I was younger.
Randy Harriso

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself.
Harvey S. Firestone

If you let a bully intimidate you, he's going to do it again. You've got to stand up to these strong-arm tactics.
Charles Djou

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt
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The consequences of your denial will be with you for a lifetime and will be passed down to the next generations. Break your Silence on Abuse!
Patty Rase Hopson

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ENCOURAGING QUOTATIONS FOR ABUSED VICTIMS

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Winston Churchill

A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.
David Brinkley

People will hate you, rate you, shake you, and break you. But how strong you stand is what makes you.
Unknown

Some people expect you to fail... Do not succumb to anyone's negative expectations of you.
Folashade Ayanwale

It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.
W.C. Field

Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt

When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.
African Proverb

It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.
Sally Field

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.
Anna Freud

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.
George S. Patton

Fear has a large shadow, but he himself is small.
Ruth Gendler

The fears you don’t face control you. The fears you face, you move beyond.
Dr. Wayne Dyer

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Feed your faith and your fears will starve to death.
Unknown

Facing the fear in order to heal is so much more important than the fear itself. The fear will fade in time and you will become stronger than you ever imagined.
Cathy Gipson

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
Frank Herbert

I'm a very independent girl and some people think I’m weird because of it but that doesn’t bother me. Just because I’m not afraid to stand up for what I believe in when everyone else is sitting down, that’s no reason to follow the crowd. Because maybe, just maybe, I’ll make someone’s life better because I wasn’t afraid.
Unknown

Free motivational posters about hope

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MOTIVATIONAL QUOTES FOR VICTIMS OF ABUSE

You are never alone or helpless. The force that guides the stars guides you too.
Shrii Shrii Anandamurti

Hope is not pretending that troubles don't exist. It is the hope that they won't last forever. That hurts will be healed and difficulties overcome. That we will be led out of the darkness and into the sunshine.
Unknown

Fight to keep going, to get through all the crap that seems so thick there is nowhere to go and no way to get through it.....there is always a way. And that way is forward, just keep striving to move forward whether it's one step at a time or five. Just don't stay idle in all the thickness, it will devour you.
Cathy Gipson

Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.
Orison Swett Marden

God wants us to live like the grass. Even if it's stepped on, crushed, burned and cut; it always persists and grows back even greener and stronger.
Unknown

Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.
Charles Jones

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Life doesn't get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient.
Steve Maraboli

The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift of life is yours; it is an amazing journey; and you alone are responsible for the quality of it.
Dan Zadra

One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.
Norman Vincent Peale

It's not what you go through that defines you; you can't help that. It's what you do after you've gone through it that really tests who you are.
Kwame Floyd

Every king was once a helpless baby & every great structure once a blueprint... It’s not where are you today, but where you’ll reach that counts.
Unknown

It isn't where you came from, it's where you're going that counts.
Ella Fitzgerald

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MOTIVATIONAL QUOTES FOR VICTIMS OF ABUSE

There are always going to be obstacles, and that's true in the healing journey too. But we can tear down the walls of those obstacles and get through it. It's essential for our well being and taking back the control in our lives. Never give up!
Cathy Gipson

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
Christopher Robin

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...
Dr. Seuss

You can have anything you want if you will give up the belief that you can't have it.
Robert Anthony

You can be anything you want to be, if you only believe with sufficient conviction and act in accordance with your faith; for whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve.
Napoleon Hill

Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
Mark Victor Hansen

Always give your best, never get discouraged, never be petty; always remember, others may hate you, but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.
Richard Nixon

I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
Booker T. Washington

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the face.
Helen Keller

No matter what sort of adversity or challenge you might face, you can always believe that, with hope, it can be conquered and, in the end, you will be stronger for it.
Brooke Ellision