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Helplessness Quotes by Martin Seligman
- The drive to resist compulsion is more important in wild animals than sex, food, or water... The drive for competence or to resist compulsion is…
- On the other hand, permanent causes produce helplessness far into the future, and universal causes spread helplessness through all your endeavors.
- Finding temporary and specific causes for misfortune is the art of hope: Temporary causes limit helplessness in time, and specific causes limit helplessness to the…
More Helplessness Quotes
- There is no word for feeling nostalgic about the future, but that's what a parent's tears often are, a nostalgia for something… — Michael Ian Black
- Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech, but earnestness… — Hannah More
- Helplessness is the real secret and the impelling power of prayer. — Ole Hallesby
- Listen, my friend! Your helplessness is your best prayer. It calls from your heart to the heart of God with greater effect… — Ole Hallesby
- Helplessness united with faith produces prayer, for without faith there can be no prayer. — Ole Hallesby
- You are innately designed to use your personal power. When you don't, you experience a sense of helplessness, paralysis, and depression-which is… — Susan Jeffers
- When the frustration of my helplessness seemed greatest, I discovered God's grace was more than sufficient. And after my imprisonment, I could… — Charles Caleb Colton
- Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort.… — Blaise Pascal
- Obviously, the real issue has nothing to do with fear itself, but, rather, how we hold the fear. For some, the fear… — Susan Jeffers
- And, I know the sense of helplessness that people feel. I know the urge to arm yourself because that's what I did.… — Dianne Feinstein
- If you are blessed with great fortunes. . . you may love your fate. But your fate never guarantees the security of… — Unknown Author
- To pray is to open the door unto Jesus and admit Him into your distress. Your helplessness is the very thing which… — Ole Hallesby