Yamamoto Tsunetomo Quotes

Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom.

I am my own worst enemy. My friends and family will say, 'You've got everything going for you right now', and I say, 'Oh yes, but!' Which is not a good way to be.

Pessimists are born, true, but they also can be made.

I see the bad in everything I do.

Well, I always think the worst things are going to happen here, because I'm - basically inside, I'm a bad person, and so the bad kind of takes over.

You want positive, go elsewhere. Go find a different lie.

Complaining not only ruins everybody else's day, it ruins the complainer's day, too. The more we complain, the more unhappy we get.

I don't think I am any good. If I thought I was any good, I wouldn't be.

I'm an optimist about other people. I'm not an optimist about myself.

I'm British; pessimism is my wheelhouse.

Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.

Regret leads to negativity, and negativity kills creativity.

'They' are the people that don't believe in you, that say that you won't succeed. We stay away from 'They.'

People do like to talk us down, it's a Scottish thing. We are pessimistic, we look for the negatives all the time.

I think 'everything sucks' is too often leaned upon as a comedic stance. It's a really easy and pretty weak perspective.

I always focus on the negatives.

I'm not a positive guy.

So many people accept the negative. They are constantly blinded by that negative thing.

I'm such a pessimist. I find it impossible to enjoy anything, especially while it's happening. I'm thinking about how to get the next thing right.

It's the nature of human consciousness to look for trouble constantly, and we find it. We find it.

I'm not a 'but' man. Nothing good ever comes of that word.

If you focus on the negative side, it just brings your confidence down.

I'm constantly trying to become the best. That's kind of how I'm driven. Sometimes I'm not. I kind of focus on when I'm not than when I am. That's probably something I need to switch.

Everyone wrote me off, including me.

Your enemies love your failures, sure. But what they love even more is to see you brought so low by those failures that you never get up again. Sometimes enemies aren't even external. Often, our biggest critic, our greatest enemy, is ourselves.