Website owner: James Miller
There are winners in this world; and there are losers. That is
a fact. What makes a winner? What makes a loser? The
difference lies in attitudes, outlooks, mindsets. Usually,
sooner or later, you will hear the loser blaming his failures
on other people or external circumstances. The mindset that
blames other people or outside circumstances for its failures
is a mindset programmed to lose. Why? Because it is a
fatalistic mindset, a mindset that views its fate as beyond its
control, at the mercy of others or outside circumstances. It
is a mindset that has given up on its own powers and abilities.
Winning requires hard work, perseverance and belief in oneself.
It requires character. The winner won't admit defeat. There
is some self-pride involved. And some courage involved. He
knows that he cannot admit defeat, that not giving up, not
quitting, is a very important moral issue. That it is
essential, for his own sake, that he not do it. So he
stubbornly persists. He believes that all things will yield to
his will with sufficient effort and persistence. The mindset
of the winner is to take responsibility for his actions, to
blame himself and only himself for his failures, to believe
that his destiny lies entirely within himself, rejecting any
thought that his destiny is at the mercy of others or outside
circumstances. And it is this mindset that is one that is
programmed to win.
He who is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything
else.
Franklin
A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he
begins to blame somebody else.
God gives every bird its food, but he does not throw it into
the nest.
J. G. Holland
Self-distrust is the cause of most of our failures. In the
assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the
weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or
their powers.
Bovee
Doubt whom you will, but never doubt yourself.
Bovee
The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear
to do and get a record of successful experiences behind you.
Dale Carnegie
July 1999
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