The only thing between you and success is your thinking…

Defeatist thoughts handicap persons from elevating their mechanistic life to superior states. The majority of persons consider themselves defeated even before beginning the struggle…

— Samael Aun Weor

“If I felt less, I could do more.”

— Charles Dickens

It's defeatist to harp on what might have been, and yet, it's hard to resist considering what might have been.

— Christopher Reeve

The single biggest surprise about arriving to the Senate is the defeatist attitude here.

— Ted Cruz

A defeatist spirit must inevitably lead to disaster.

— Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

Can't is the tool of the defeatist. You have to believe, and you have to fight if you want your dreams to come true.

— D Michael Hardy

Don't be defeatist, dear, it's very middle class.

— Maggie Smith

Defeatist, you and I will never be the same! I've taken this vow of hatred. A promise to myself to never be my own…

— Hatebreed

“Defeatist Christians who do not fight against sins because they figure they were “born this way” or “will never change” or “don’t have enough…

— Kevin DeYoung

“Because he refused to adopt a defeatist attitude, he overcame the obstacles in his path.”

— James C. Dobson

“The attitude of “I can’t” is really a decision of “I won’t.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

“You need to stop this defeatist aura around you. When you project sadness, you push people away.”

— Felice Stevens

I'm not going to take this defeatist attitude and listen to all this crap any more from all these people who have nothing except…

— Carroll Shelby

To stop challenging someone from using anti-gay language simply because they persist in using anti-gay language strikes me as a defeatist approach.

— Mallory Ortberg

“Her eyes, which refused to meet mine, had the defensive coldness of those who are determined to lose hope.”

— iris murdoch