Negative Spiral Quotes

When you are in a hole, stop digging!

If I get to wrapped up in how I have to be, or what I have to do, things gradually get worse and worse.

The more you lose, the more is to be lost, yet it matters less.

Distrust naturally creates distrust.

By dint of railing at idiots, one runs the risk of becoming an idiot oneself.

The first thing you ought to do when you find yourself in a hole is quit digging. . . . Instead they are looking for a bigger shovel.

All concerns of men go wrong when they wish to cure evil with evil.

In my career, I've always felt like all great things came at once, and when something goes bad, it always seems that everything else seems to start going bad.

When you allow circumstances beyond your control to determine your attitude and actions, you risk plunging into a downward spiral of hasty decisions and faulty judgments, to overreacting, giving up too soon, and missing those opportunities that always - always - appear just when you think life will never get better.

When someone is denying what they are, then that's when things start to spiral down.