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Quotes About Mindset

Men, in general, are but great children.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Most real failures are due to limitations which men set up in their own minds.
~ Napoleon Hill
The successful man or woman always looks for the advantage or benefit in every situation and lo and behold, they always find it.
~ Napoleon Hill
It is not mere technical skill that makes a man a golfer, it is the golfing soul.
~ P. G. Wodehouse
Negative thinking is always expensive--dragging us down mentally, emotionally, and physically--hence I refer to any indulgence in it as a luxury.
~ Peter McWilliams
The essential tendency of life is toward happiness . . . . Optimism is the only true condition for a reasonable man.
~ Phillips Brooks
If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if he has a headache.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some men see mountains as obstacles. Others as a canvas.
~ Richard Paul Evans
As a man thinks of himself, so he is.
~ Henry David Thoreau
A practical, matter-of-fact man is like a wagon without springs: every single pebble on the road jolts him; but a man with imagination has springs that break the jar and jolt.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Man's conditioning has been so powerful that It has all but distroyed his ability to be self aware.
~ Herb Goldberg
A man may and ought to pride himself more on his will than on his talent.
~ Honore de Balzac
Men take their misfortunes to heart and keep them there.
~ Ihara Saikaku
Over the first three rounds you're playing the course. In the final round, if you're in contention, you're playing the man.
~ Jack Nicklaus
The learned man aims for more. But the wise man decreases. And then decreases again.
~ James Altucher
I am not a businessman. I am a business, man.
~ Jay-Z
No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition.
~ Jeremy Taylor
The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
They biggest man with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest man with the smallest mind-think big anyway.
~ John C. Maxwell
Every change in human attitude must come through internal understanding and acceptance. Man is the only known creature who can reshape and remould himself by altering his attitude.
~ John C. Maxwell
The common man is impelled and controlled by interests; the superior, by ideas.
~ John Lancaster Spalding
In Baby You're A Rich Man the point was, stop moaning, you're a rich man and we're all rich, heh heh, baby!
~ John Lennon
One of my mom's best lines is... You're not training to be the best in the world, you're training to be the best in the world on your worst day.
~ Ronda Rousey
I always say I am a realist, and my mom says, "No, you just have anxiety."
~ Jessica Chastain