Self-Improvement Quote by R.D. Brady

“Learned helplessness is a psychological reaction to repeated frustration and failure. Research shows that continual exposure to academic failure contributes to withdrawal, unwillingness to…

— Jody Swarbrick

“When we forget our ability to choose, we learn to be helpless.”

— Greg Mckeown

Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

“Many often err and accomplish little or nothing because they try to become learned rather than to live well.”

— Bernard of Clairvaux

“Everything I do in its essence is about helplessness. That's the story I want to tell all the time. It's the story I wanted…

— Joss Whedon

“We were brought up to be very independent. Our parents taught us that we were given certain talents and we needed to pursue them…

— Jon Krakauer

“Many psychologists assert that creating systems that cause feelings of powerlessness is one of the most damaging things we can do to fellow human…

— Gene Kim

“Only a person who is motivated in the inner depths of his being will help without hesitation and with no obligation for the one…

— Eraldo Banovac

“Were all people who tried to help doomed to live outside society because others didn't understand them?”

— Jennifer Bohnhoff

“Some of the best things are done by those with nowhere to turn, by those who don't have time, by those who truly understand…

— Margaret Atwood

“Some people make their own opportunities. The wise person benefits from acts that are lost on others.”

— Jim M. Perdue

“The poor man retains the prejudices of his forefathers without their faith, and their ignorance without their virtues; he has adopted the doctrine of…

— Alexis de Tocqueville