The person who dumps garbage into your mind will do you considerably more harm than the person who dumps garbage on your floor, because each load of mind garbage negatively impacts your possibilities and lowers your expectations.

Is your fear of failure greater than your desire to succeed?

Your input determines your outlook. Your outlook determines your output, and your output determines your future.

The price of success is much lower than the price of failure.

You already have every characteristic necessary for success if you recognize, claim, develop and use them

It's true, spectacular preparation always precedes spectacular performance.

Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise. Give lifting that person your best shot, but don't hang around long enough for his/her bad attitude to pull you down. Instead, surround yourself with optimistic people.