Martin Seligman Quotes

When things are tough, French athletes tend to pull out great performances.

Obviously kicking is very mental and if you do struggle it is a little harder to go out there with confidence, but the good ones, if they miss they can bounce right back and make the next one.

Even when I do miss easy balls I feel I can come back.

We should cultivate the optimistic temperament, and endeavour to see the good that dwells in everything. If we sit down and lament over the imperfection of our bodies and our minds, we profit nothing; it is the heroic endeavour to subdue adverse circumstances that carries our spirit upward.

Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.

Well, I'm lucky because, you see, I'll probably bounce back from this role.

Every season will have its dips and hard moments, and the challenge then is to make sure you don't get too down in those moments and make sure you come back fighting.

Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure.

It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.

All my life, I have been a positive thinker... I have always been able to survive by telling myself that no matter how bad things are, they will one day be better. And that out of every event - no matter how tragic - one can always find a way to survive and even, perhaps, to be a little bit happy.

I've never had one of those middle of the nights when I go, 'Why me?' or 'I don't know if I can keep fighting like this.' No. Those thoughts don't even enter my mind.

Regardless of what you're put through or what is going on in your life, keep a positive spirit. That will help you get through it.

I don't think about my losses. I only think about winning my next fight and preparing for my next fight.

To stay positive, you have to be very strong mentally.

It's really important to always have a positive mind-set, no matter what people have been through.

I learnt that as soon as you have a negative thought, just push it to the back of your mind. The question is, when it's you versus 11 others; can you be positive under pressure? That's what defines winners.

When you're down, are you going to be mentally down and make it last longer, or are you going to stay positive, keep an even keel?

I think, of course, when you are coming somewhere, when you know you are playing good tennis, it always helps you.

Everyone who's great - play any sport, tennis, basketball, football, volleyball, swimming, don't matter, everyone's failed. Everyone's gonna fail. It's how you bounce back.

Here is a commandment for you: seek happiness in sorrow. Work, work tirelessly.

Throughout the journey of my life, I have maintained a strong faith in the power of the human spirit to overcome adversity. I deeply believe in one's own positive will to overcome even the most daunting challenges.

I’d always enjoyed life, and I knew I would again. But I was going to have to slog through a lot of bad patches to get there

I do not allow myself to be overcome by hopelessness, no matter how tough the situation. I believe that if you just do your little bit without thinking of the bigness of what you stand against, if you turn to the enlargement of your own capacities, just that itself creates new potential.

I don't believe in rock bottom. Rock bottom is like a fishing term.

Dark clouds may hang on me sometimes, but I'll work it out.