John C. Maxwell Quotes

Negative expectations are a quick route to dead-end thinking.

Negative thinking limits God and our potential.

The main trouble with despair is that it is self-fulfilling. People who fear the worst tend to invite it. Heads that are down can't scan the horizon for new openings. Bursts of energy do not spring from a spirit of defeat. Ultimately, helplessness leads to hopelessness.

I'm a pessimist by nature. I don't think things are ever going to work out, I'm not particularly ambitious.

Complaining becomes a habit. Focusing on the negative also becomes a habit. It’s one of the most detrimental habits you can possibly have. It can negatively impact you socially, affecting your personal happiness, but it can also subconsciously sabotage your money and success.

Negative thinking definitely attracts negative results.

Negative thinking is prevalent, in particular, among so many women in their later years, and, as a result, they live out their lives in discontent.

Never think negatively, for the negative thinker does a very dangerous thing. He pumps out negative thoughts into the world around him and thus activates the world negatively.

For many, negative thinking is a habit which, over time, becomes an addiction.

Was it always my nature to take a bad time and block out the good times, until any success became an accident and failure seemed the only truth?

Very often pessimistic people speak against their own desire. They want to undertake some work, and they say, 'I will do this, but I don't think I shall succeed in it.' Thus they hinder themselves in their path. Man does not know that every thought makes an impression on the consciousness and on the rhythm with which the consciousness is working. According to that rhythm that reflection will come true and happen; and a man proves to be his own enemy by his ignorance of these things.

So I feel that lack of qualification. And I'm scared. And I have a tendency to think things may not/probably won't work out. That's my basic mindset.

You can find negative people everywhere you go. The last thing in the world you want to do is talk to them, because all they're gonna do is cement pessimism in you!

Negative thinking blows everything out of proportion.

We lost because we told ourselves we lost.

To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.

Pessimism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy; it reproduces itself by crippling our willingness to act.

I do not expect to get what I want, so I don't. And I don't even try.

I don't do that kind of negativity. If you put your energy into thinking about how much the fall would hurt, you're already halfway down.

If you are selective about the things you choose to read, look at or listen to, then you are taking effective action against negative thinking. It's just like with a computer; if you change the input, you will change the output.

When you say that something is impossible, you have made it impossible.

Pessimism has never done anything but tear down and destroy what optimism has built up.

It wasn’t so much that I was positive. I just wasn’t fully subscribing to such a negative way of thinking anymore.

For many, negative thinking is a habit, which over time, becomes an addiction... A lot of people suffer from this disease because negative thinking is addictive to each of the Big Three - the mind, the body, and the emotions. If one doesn't get you, the others are waiting in the wings.

Your life will follow your expectations. What you expect is what you will get. If you dwell on positive thoughts, you will move in that direction; if you continually think negative thoughts, you will live a negative life.