David Joseph Schwartz Quotes

I used to think I was stupid and slow.

If you think you are beaten you are, if you think you dare not, you don't. If you like to win, but you think you can't, it is almost certain you won't.

If you think you can't, why think

Remember, in the end, it isn't what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not.

If I could only fancy myself clever, it would be better, but to be a failure of Nature and to know it is not a comfortable lot. It is the last lesson one learns, to be contented with one's inferiority -- but it must be learned.

The greatest sin is to think yourself weak

If you don't have confidence, you'll always find a way not to win.

We lost because we told ourselves we lost.

I was the kid who never won the races. I never jumped the highest. I wasn't on the list of the high-achieving.

I was the kid who never won the races... I wasn't on the list of the high-achieving.

The 'Okay-I'll-give-it-a-try-but-I-don't-think-it-will-work' attitude produces failures.

Growing up, I'd always been told that my biggest weakness was my body and how that was probably going to hold me back from accomplishing my dreams.

There’s no better guarantee of failure than convincing yourself that success is impossible, and therefore never even trying.

The greatest source of discouragement is the conviction that one is unable to do something

Most of the time, it's your thinking, not your talent, that holds you back.

We are seldom as limited as we think we are.

He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't.

You will never go beyond the barriers in your own mind. If you think you can't do something, then you never will.

If you're going to take the attitude, I don't think it will work, you will never do anything.

It's so easy to think that your strengths don't matter.

The man who believes he can do it is probably right, and so is the man who believes he can't.

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.

The highest level than can be reached by a mediocre but experienced mind is a talent for uncovering the weaknesses of those greater than itself.

I always thought I'd get farther. I'd like to blame the world for what I've failed to do, but the failure - the failure that sometimes washes over me as anger, makes me so angry I could spit - is all mine, in the end. What made my obstacles insurmountable, what consigned me to mediocrity, is me, just me. I thought for so long, forever, that I was strong enough -- or I misunderstood what strength was.

No one has nicer teeth than me. Why would anyone laugh at my lovely teeth?