Defeatist Attitude Quotes

#1. Some say it is better to rule in hell than serve in heaven. That is a defeatist attitude. I intend to rule everywhere, not just in Hell.
- General Agamemnon
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Brian Herbert

#2. A defeatist attitude kills almost as many marriages as do affairs.

Gary L. Thomas

#3. Those who focus their lives on uncovering the devil's plans without regard for heaven's plans can often develop a defeatist attitude toward the Christian life.

Peter Goodgame

#4. I can see no hope at present of such a vaccine being produced ... I have adopted a frankly defeatist attitude towards the problem of poliomyelitis and I hope that future developments will prove me wrong ... No means of controlling poliomyelitis is at present visible.

Frank Macfarlane Burnet

#5. A defeatist attitude was not in his gene pool.

DiAnn Mills

#6. 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 doomsday to predict.

Carroll Shelby

#7. Hate destroys, love builds: be a creator. Fear closes, love opens: be an advocate for life. Guilt stagnates, love permits: be a peaceful warrior. Anger takes away, love gives: be a foundation for life. A defeatist attitude makes its own bed while love has the power to design its very own house.

Madelaine Standing

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

Ted Cruz

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

James C. Dobson

#10. It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.

Livy

#11. When you must choose a new path, do not bring old experiences with you. Those who strike out afresh, but who attempt to retain a little of the old life, end up torn apart by their own memories.

Paulo Coelho

#12. I had met a young lady who wanted to be in the theater. It was Judy Holliday. She had somehow fallen down the steps of the Village Vanguard, which still exists today.

Adolph Green

#13. Death via extreme pleasure was a serious concern.

Darynda Jones

#14. One of the great truths of Scientology is that increased awareness is the only factor which offers any road out. That is an awfully simple truth, but you'll find out that people don't know that. They think that less awareness is the road out - and that is the road down into the basement.

L. Ron Hubbard

#15. Technology, and applications of this technology, will continue to improve and evolve, providing unprecedented, global access to information, individuals, training, and opportunities.

Maynard Webb

#16. Thought a lot about how beautiful and powerful courage and faith are when they are found together.

Glennon Doyle Melton

#17. Live or dead, no creature might escape the unfolding of its own actions. He

R.A. MacAvoy

#18. Because forcing our beliefs upon you is not just. You must give up this shadow of life on your own, not because we force you to.

Rhys Hess

#19. Maybe never again as long as I live. He turned and walked into the

Margaret Peterson Haddix