Richard G. Scott Quotes

It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail.

When I first started coaching, one of the worst things that I think I heard was 'It will be O.K.' I would wonder, 'How the hell is it going to be O.K.?' The worst word in the English language is 'hope.'

I get tired of negativity in our country. I get tired of people who only want to know dirt. I get tired of people who don't believe in themselves.

I know when I get down and discouraged, it's hard for me to be able to just see anything except for right where I am.

One of the hardest things is to create hope.

When things are a disappointment, try not to be so discouraged.

When you want something desperately and you lose it, no matter how hard you try to get yourself motivated, it's always difficult.

I don't know whether I'm misanthropic. It seems to me I'm constantly disappointed. I'm very easily disappointed.

I want no part of making any contribution whatsoever to the despair which eventually follows downbeat thinking.

There's been a lot of times that I thought I'd never work again; I was really bummed out.

Hope is the raw material of losers.

Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.

Depression begins with disappointment. When disappointment festers in our soul, it leads to discouragement.

I'm a serious optimist. I come from a country where you have little to be hopeful for, and so you have to always be an optimist.

I was very bitter, frustrated, hurt, angry - I went through all types of emotions when I first was out of the WNBA.

I felt like things could never get any worse.

Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.

One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.

My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.

In general it is a natural characteristic of human nature everywhere, that whenever a man fails in his first contests he becomes disheartened with respect to what is to come.

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

It's always discouraging to lose. You look at it and think, 'Man, what's going on?' It's always discouraging. But I'm a fighter. I don't like to quit.

Anybody who says they're bitter is sick in their soul. They've given up.

I believe a lot of what contributes to the sadness and downward-spiraling in our lives is a sense of hopelessness. We become resentful when circumstances aren't unfolding as we want, leading us to doubt whether we will ever get what we want.

We can feel sad, hurt, demoralized. But we can't give up.