Defeatism Quote by Pat Conroy Download Open image “The mind is an intricate mechanism that can be run on the fuels of both victory and defeatism.” — Pat Conroy ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Defeatism Fuel Fuels Victory Mind Mind Intricate Psychology Running Victory Victory Defeatism
We are creatures of our thinking. We can talk ourselves into defeat or we can talk ourselves into victory. — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Total victory is the only acceptable goal in a mind-control war because humanity is diminished so long as a single mind remains trapped in… — Howard Thompson Copy Share Image
Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality. — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
Victory always starts in the head. It's a state of mind. It then spreads with such radiance and such affirmations that destiny can do… — Douchan Gersi Copy Share Image
Victory lies in your thoughts accompanied by actions towards your goal. — Lawrence Mudau Copy Share Image
Remember this: with mind you will always be a loser. Even if you are victorious, your victories will be just defeats. With mind there… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Poor mind, from the senses you take your arguments, and then want to defeat them? Your victory is your defeat. — Democritus Copy Share Image
Defeat is a state of mind, no one will be defeated unless the loss is accepted as a reality . — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
It's an article of faith that the novels I've loved will live inside me forever. — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“my folks wouldn't read a book if you put a gun to their dicks. but they read people all day long and always get… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
Cameras are a lifesaver for very shy people who have nowhere else to hide. Behind a lens they can disguise the fact that they… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
Carolina beach music," Dupree said, coming up on the porch. "The holiest sound on earth. — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“My memory often seems like a city of exiled poets afire with the astonishment of language, each believing in the integrity of his own… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“We began our life together at a moment of natural self-pity and defeat that left an inimitable impression on both of us. The rejection… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“I always liked your piety, Jack.” “I’m a lot cuter than the women of your generation,” Betsy said, playing up to Capers and Mike.… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“From the beginning I've searched out those writers unafraid to stir up the emotions, who entrust me with their darkest passions, their most indestructible… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“My mother's voice and my father's fists are two bookends of my childhood, and they form the basis of my art.” — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“Over the years, my church gave me passage into a menagerie of exotic words unknown in the South: "introit," "offertory," "liturgy," "movable feast," "the… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“We began our life together at a moment of natural self-pity and defeat that left an inimitable impression on both of us. The rejection… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“A battle is won by the side that is absolutely determined to win. Why did we lose the battle of Austerlitz? Our casualties were… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“In 1965, a psychologist named Martin Seligman started shocking dogs. He was trying to expand on the research of Pavlov--the guy who could make… — David McRaney Copy Share Image
One of the more serious temptations which stifles boldness and zeal is a defeatism, which turns us into querulous and disillusioned pessimists, sourpusses. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“Defeat is a result of people not being bold enough to grab their win.” — Anas Hamshari Copy Share Image
Defeatism about the past is a grievous error; defeatism about the future is a crime! — Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker Copy Share Image
What I don't like is a conformist attitude, a certain defeatism; that can't be allowed at Barcelona. — Joan Laporta Copy Share Image
While a lot of people want to join the left to react against the mainstream or right, I in many ways react against the… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“We are swimming upstream against a great torrent of disorganization...In this, our main obligation is to establish arbitrary enclaves of order and system...It is… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
“Seeing the mud around a lotus is pessimism, seeing a lotus in the mud is optimism.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image