When someone is trying to take advantage of your kindness, how direct and honest can you be with them? You know that being straightforward shows that you’re serious about your boundaries. But honesty can sometimes be tough, but it’s necessary to make sure you're not being used.
You want to be someone who puts others first and help them as much as you can. But if you keep being "nice", there'll always be ignorant people who try to guilt-trip you into doing things for them. They try to monopolize your time with their requests.
So here are 101 quotes that help you trust your instincts, help you stop other control your actions, and proudly walk away from those who take advantage of your hard work and compassion.
101 Don't Let Anyone Use You Quotes
- 1"Never apologize for having high standards. People who really want to be in your life will rise up to meet them." - Ziad K. Abdelnour
- 2"I'm just being kind. I am not being taken advantage of." - Ray Alexander
- 3"When you use someone for personal gain, it’s your biggest loss."
- 4"Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner." - Lao Tzu
- 5"Being your own man does not mean taking advantage of anyone else." - Flip Wilson
- 6"Don't settle for less than you deserve. Walk away from people who don't treat you right."
- 7"Believe in yourself and there will come a day when others will have no choice but to believe with you." - Cynthia Kersey
- 8"You don’t have to attend every argument you’re invited to.”
- 9"If you don't stand for something you fall for everything." - Malcolm X
- 10"You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.” - Brian Tracy
- 11"Respect is a two-way street. Unwarranted orders deserve a raised eyebrow, not blind obedience."
- 12"Your time is precious. Don’t waste it on someone who doesn’t value it.”
- 13"It’s easy to be taken advantage of if you’re not honest." - Katherine Heigl
- 14"When success comes, people can try to trick you or take advantage of you." - Christina Aguilera
- 15"If there are people in your life that you feel are using you, you need to reset the boundaries. Learn to say, no. People only treat us as badly as we allow." - Laura Barrett Shannon
16 "If something doesn't align with your priorities, just say no. Why should you care about those who don't respect your decision?" - Ray Alexander
- 17"What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people and loving things." - Zelda Fitzgerald
- 18"Stay true to who you are and don't let anyone change that."
- 19"Using people to leverage a refined process multiplies production, and using people as a poor solution to a poor process multiplies problems." - Timothy Ferriss
- 20"They come to you when the sky is crystal clear and disappear when the same sky is overcast with dark clouds." - Michael Bassey Johnson
- 21"The only way to live a happy life is to be true to yourself."
- 22"I don't let people use me. That's why I like a small number of people in my life. The more people in my life, the more complex it becomes, so I just try to keep it at a minimum." - Anita Baker
- 23"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." - Maya Angelou
- 24"Those who exploit kindness will leave you exhausted."
- 25"Don't be afraid to speak up for what you believe in. Your voice matters."
- 26"When you succumb to your heart people take advantage of you."
- 27"You used me. You made me feel special then you threw me away when you were bored. You took my trust. You broke my trust. You turned people against me. You turned me against myself." - Faith Dismuke
- 28"Hard work never hurt anyone who hired someone else to do it." - Evan Esar
- 29"Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle." - Christian D. Larson
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30 "Let your achievements speak for themselves. Don't be a stepping stone for those who offer nothing in return."
- 31"When you say ‘yes’ to others, make sure you are not saying ‘no’ to yourself.” - Paulo Coelho
- 32"You can't change how people treat you or what they say about you. All you can do is change how you react to it." - Mahatma Gandhi
- 33"You're doing the best you can with the challenges you face. Don't let them demand more from you." - Ray Alexander
- 34"You deserve to be treated with respect and kindness. Walk away from anyone who isn't giving you that.”
- 35"Never take advantage of the person who does the most for you."
- 36"When you’re nothing, people will ignore you but when you’re on top that’s when everybody swears they know you." - Lincey Alphonse
- 37"Your self-worth is determined by you. You don't have to depend on someone telling you who you are.” – Beyoncé
- 38"It’s so funny how 'friends' forget us when they don't need any more favors."
- 39"Never let anyone dim your light. Shine bright like the star you are."
- 40"The strongest people are not those who show strength in front of the world but those who fight and win battles that others do not know anything about." - Jonathan Harnisch
- 41"Oh, I’m sorry. I forgot I only exist when you need something."
- 42"Respect yourself enough to walk away from anything that no longer serves you, grows you, or makes you happy." - Robert Tew
- 43"Are you always taken for granted? That's because your permit to do so."
- 44"Most people do not listen with the intent to understand. Most people listen with the intent to reply." - Stephen R. Covey
- 45"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." – Eleanor Roosevelt
46 "Fight those who you care about, and fight FOR those you care about. Don't waste your time on all others."- Ray Alexander
- 47"Never dull your shine for somebody else." - Tyra Banks
- 48"When you’re done with being used, you become desperate to fight back and it doesn't matter how far you go, as long as you go. It’s like a bomb that’s ticking inside you and the longer you keep it in, the louder the explosion and the greater the damage." - Arti Manani
- 49"It’s when you get complacent that you get taken advantage of." - Tony Gaskins
- 50"I don't care what you think about me. I don't think about you at all." - Coco Chanel
- 51"Too many people take advantage of the trust that they are given."
- 52"Because I’m just a giving person spiritually, I feel that if you intend to use or abuse or take advantage of, then you might get what you get in the meantime, but there’s still a price to pay." - Angie Stone
- 53"Controllers, abusers, and manipulative people don't question themselves. They don't ask themselves if the problem is them. They always say the problems is someone else." - Darlene Ouimet
- 54"Don’t take advantage of a kind heart. You may never be offered one again."
- 55"Not recognizing your worth means you could be worthless. But you are more precious than anything in the world. Recognize it." - Ray Alexander
- 56"Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.” - Mark Twain
- 57"Somebody is always doing something that somebody else said couldn’t be done." - Evan Esar
- 58"The moment you start valuing yourself, the world will value you."
- 59"When you are tired of being taken for granted it’s time you wake up."
- 60"Some people will only love you as much as they can use you. Their loyalty ends where the benefits stop." - Tamara Renaye
- 61"I don't care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself."
- 62"Listen to your heart and focus on what truly matters to you, not what others want you to be or do."
63 "You have the power to say no. Use it!"
- 64"Your joy is yours. If you believe it's good and no one else's business, then let no one disapprove it." - Ray Alexander
- 65"The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period." - Oriana Fallaci
- 66"Some people say you are going the wrong way, when it's simply a way of your own." - Angelina Jolie
- 67"Characterize people by their actions and you'll never be fooled by their words."
- 68“A sworn vow never to be taken advantage of again.” - Anthony Rosario Wagner
- 69"You don’t use people, neither do you let them use you."
- 70"Choose someone who introduces you to their world, not force you to their world."
- 71"You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It's their mistake, not my failing." - Richard P. Feynman
- 72"I have learned that people at the bottom use others' bodies to climb to the top." - Mandla Langa
- 73"Stand up for what is right even if you stand alone." - Suzy Kassem
- 74"I am tired of being used, hurt, and cast aside. It is my turn to use. My turn to hurt." - Marie Lu
- 75"When you allow somebody to control the way you do things, you will be practically dead." - Ray Alexander
- 76"Kindness, a forgotten language, met with suspicion, a shield against further pain."
- 77"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." - Dr. Seuss
- 78"There comes a time when you have to stop crossing oceans for people who wouldn't jump puddles for you."
- 79"When someone is using you, playing you, or things aren't adding up, your instincts will never lie to you."
80 "People mistake my kindness for weakness but that's okay. The moment I know they take advantage of me, I walk away." - Ray Alexander
- 81"Givers have to set limits because takers rarely do." - Irma Kurtz
- 82"This is our skin and nobody has the right to crumple us like paper only to find another skin to write on, and then another, ruining people like they’re pages, like they are somehow replaceable. Because that will only leave our delicate and fragile selves into a tattered mess." - Heema Shirvaikar
- 83"Sometimes, people don’t notice the things we do for them until we stop doing them."
- 84"Your story is yours to write, not a chapter in someone else's book."
- 85"Set boundaries, or you'll be walked all over."
- 86"There is no such thing as a people who are all wicked or even all good. Everyone chooses. But even, they looked at people and saw only tools. No one is a cup for another to drink from." - Catherynne M. Valente
- 87"Love doesn't demand to be lovedalc back, but it doesn’t mean it exists to be taken for granted."
- 88"True leaders inspire, not dictate. Listen, but reserve the right to choose your own path."
- 89"I can think of worse things than being used as guinea pigs." - Tom McLoughlin
- 90"Your worth is not determined by what others say or think about you. It’s determined by you.”
91 "You are the master of your destiny, not a slave of someone else's."
- 92"Respect yourself enough to say no, or others will take advantage."
- 93"I too often allow people to become a sterile commodity to be bartered in the service of my greed, and in doing something so absurdly reckless I foolishly barter away everything that meets my need." - Craig D. Lounsbrough
- 94"If you don’t get the better of yourself, someone else will." - Evan Esar
- 95"Be the person your dog thinks you are." - J.W. Stephens
- 96"Being taken advantage of is solely your fault. Being available at all times is your stupidity."
- 97"Respect yourself and others will respect you." – Confucius
- 98"Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice." – Steve Jobs
- 99"He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears. Know when you're being taken advantage of." – Agnes Bonas
- 100"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation." - Oscar Wilde
- 101"They are a nice person who isn't taking advantage, but just getting carried away. Ignore what they say to let them know your boundaries." - Ray Alexander
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