Jonah Hill Quotes

Our thoughts about an event can have a dramatic effect on how we go through the event itself. When our expectations are low, it's easy to be pleasantly surprised. When they're not, we're vulnerable to painful disappointment. Because of this, many people spend a good deal of effort trying to avoid developing high hopes about anything.

Hope is the raw material of losers.

I've done a lot of shows that didn't do well. You have to go in with a 50-50 take on it. If it goes well, fantastic. Hope for the best and plan for the worst.

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.

How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

The triumph of hope over experience.

Success is seldom achieved by people who contemplate the possibility of failure

Pessimism blunts the tools you need to succeed.

I think I fail a bit less than everyone else.

I'm not a negative person, but every role I go for I don't think I'll get.

The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost.

I feel like people are just waiting for me to fail, so I have to be careful what decisions I make in my career.

You'll never convince me there is a hopeless situation or there is any finality in any success or any failure.

Well, I certainly did not think that I could do worse.

I guess it's easier to think badly and then be pleasantly surprised.

Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.

Failure is a word that I simply don't accept.

I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will.

Pessimism never won any battle.

To be ready to fail is to be prepared for success.

You don't go into anything contemplating failure, because if you did, you wouldn't make it.

But no, had I been successful in my 20s I would have been just fine. But it is nice to defy the odds.

I've always had a loud mouth, and for that I've gotten a lot of attention. I did falter in some big competitions in my career, but being counted out and not being seen as a threat is something I'm used to.

I don't think you're going to be a success in anything if you think about losing, whether it's in sports or in politics.

History was not written by men who predicted failure…