The man who fears losing has already lost.
All haters are losers, even when they win.
Cynicism is the largest obstacle to social change. Cynicism is dangerous because people throw up their hands and say, "Well it's not possible. Why should I even try?"
People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.
There’s no better guarantee of failure than convincing yourself that success is impossible, and therefore never even trying.
Stop being so...optimistic, its getting on my nerves." "No problem. Do you want me to be all gloom and doom or just shut up?" "Just shut up." "Can do." "Really? Doesn't seem like it." -Jacob and seth
Failures . . . believe that their lives are shaped by circumstances ... by things that happen to them ... by exterior forces.
Optimism and self-pity are the positive and negative poles of modern cowardice.
The worst thing you can become in life is cynical. Cynical is like concrete. and nothing grows in concrete.
Negative attitudes bring negative results.
The cynics, they can only speak of the dark, of the obvious, and this is not hard. For all it's supposed sophistication, it's cynicism that's simplistic. In a fallen world, how profound is to see the cracks?
They expected to lose. And therefore, they lost. [..] People who start thinking deep dark thoughts in the middle of a war start expecting to lose.
If you're going to take the attitude, I don't think it will work, you will never do anything.
I don't know what to say. I've always been a prepared loser.
The 'Okay-I'll-give-it-a-try-but-I-don't-think-it-will-work' attitude produces failures.
Cynicism is just an excuse for not helping.
The greatest source of discouragement is the conviction that one is unable to do something
There is a dependence in the region that breeds a culture of defeatism.
Think you are weak, think you lack what it takes, think you will lose, think you are second class - think this way and you are doomed to mediocrity.
The American system demands success, and in order to succeed we must first believe that we can. Yet our society, with its intolerance of failure and poverty, traps millions of people in positions where any kind of success seems impossible to contemplate, and in which failure itself is a kind of passive rebellion against their own misery and the social system which created it in the first place. To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.
