Defeatist Quotes

#1. That was it exactly - irony was defeatist, timid, the telltale of a generation too afraid to say what it meant, and so in danger of forgetting it had anything to say.

D.T. Max

#2. Of course women can have it all - if they want it all. I won't hear any defeatist talk. If you just dwell on problems, you won't get anywhere fast.

Louise Mensch

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

Ted Cruz

#4. Also, it was a bit hopeless," he said. "A bit defeatist."
"If by defeatist you mean honest, then I agree."
"I don't think defeatism is honest, " Dad answered. "I refuse to accept that.

John Green

#5. There's a difference between loyal opposition that has a different view, and those who are advocating a defeatist approach that sends the wrong message to our troops and the enemy.

Scott McClellan

#6. What kind of defeatist talk is that?" "The type that's grounded in reality?

Christine S. Feldman

#7. The Strategy of Safeguards requires us to take a very realistic - perhaps even fatalistic - look at ourselves. But while acknowledging the likelihood of temptation and failure may seem like a defeatist approach, it helps us identify, avoid, and surmount our likely stumbling blocks.

Gretchen Rubin

#8. No wonder such a big part of growing old is learning to lower one's expectations, only we call that maturity and wisdom so as not to sound too defeatist. When you are young you demand ecstasy; when you are old you settle for anything short of agony.

Jonathan Hull

#9. Let me be absolutely clear: I think it is defeatist to sort of say we want to leave the European Union. We're going to try and change the rules and change the way it works and change the objectives that it has in order to make it something that works for Britain.

Philip Hammond

#10. 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

#11. I guess we need to keep adjusting our dreams to fit reality, because life is not going to cooperate. Maybe this makes me a defeatist, but I'd prefer to think of myself as realist.

Cassia Leo

#12. If we'd just been fighting their army without the general, we might, just MIGHT have had a chance. But with him ... ?' The big man shrugged, then stood to leave. 'But that's defeatist talk. And I've got a fyrd to help train. I'll see you tonight at dinner, Maggie.

Stuart Hill

#13. Why must every relationship I have be so damned impossible? (Ravyn)
Hey now, defeatist talk from a catman like you? I'm the one who should be freaking out here. I mean, damn, you could give me fleas or something. (Susan)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#14. Defeatist thoughts handicap persons from elevating their mechanistic life to superior states. The majority of persons consider themselves defeated even before beginning the struggle or the Gnostic esoteric work.

Samael Aun Weor

#15. I have a lot of friends that take that position of extreme cynicism, and I just can't let myself go to that place. It's just too easy, and it's just too defeatist.

Conor Oberst

#16. 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

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

James C. Dobson

#18. Here are young women with more opportunities, more liberties than almost any women in history and at that moment we tell them they're short-changed silenced victims of a patriarchy? It's defeatist and demoralising.

Christina Hoff Sommers

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

Maggie Smith

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

Christopher Reeve

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

DiAnn Mills

#22. 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

#23. A defeatist spirit must inevitably lead to disaster.

Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

#24. 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

#25. If he had said otherwise. To admit that a thermonuclear catastrophe would be the end of civilization and of the biosphere would be, in religious terms, profane and defeatist. All religions must, at their core, look forward to the end of this world and

Christopher Hitchens

#26. The only thing between you and success is your thinking. Defeatist thoughts are the mother of inaction.

Iimani David

#27. We all get humiliated at some point or another during our lives. the trick is not to let it make you resentful or defeatist.

Jane Stanton Hitchcock

#28. 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

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

Gary L. Thomas

#30. 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
New Memoirs

Brian Herbert

#31. We must content ourselves with the mystery, the absurdity, the contradictions, the hostility, but also the generosity that our environment offers us. It's not much, but it's always better than the deadly, defeatist certainty of the paranoid.

Philip K. Dick