Quotes About Mindset

Keep your attention firmly concentrated on your new path-building and forget all about the old paths.

If you can't do great things, do small things in a great way.

To be a good loser is to learn how to win.

Great things alone can make a great mind, and petty things will make a petty mind unless a man rejects them as completely alien.

A warrior takes his lot, whatever it may be, and accepts it in ultimate humbleness. He accepts in humbleness what he is, not as a grounds for regret but as a living challenge.

You take yourself too seriously, he said slowly. You are too damn important in your own mind. That must be changed! You are so goddamn important that you feel justified to be annoyed with everything. You're so damn important that you can afford to leave if things don't go your way. I suppose you think that shows you have character. That's nonsense! You're weak, and conceited! - Dom Juan

Don Juan had always said to me that our great enemy is the fact that we never believe what is happening to us.

Warriors are incapable of feeling compassion because they no longer feel sorry for themselves. Without the driving force of self-pity, compassion is meaningless.

The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.

We either make ourselves miserable, or make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.

We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.

The average man seeks certainty in the eyes of the onlooker and calls that self-confidence. The warrior seeks impeccability in his own eyes and calls that humbleness. from Tales of Power

You'll become who you believe you are.

What all doctors say: what doesn't kill you makes you fat.

People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.

Corazon caliente, mente fria. EL codigo del seductor

Valahányszor szóra nyitja az ajkát ez az ember, kopernikuszi fordulatot vesz a nyugati gondolkodás rendszere.

La gente se complica la vida, como si no fuese suficientemente complicada.

Uno cree en lo que puede, no en lo que quiere. A menos que sea un cretino, en cuyo caso invierte esos términos

You'll become who you believe you are.

Mientras se trabaja, uno no le mira a la vida a los ojos

Like all children of that era, they had been diligently warned about strange men, but it never crossed their young minds to fear a woman.

Most people, when directly confronted by evidence that they are wrong, do not change their point of view or course of action but justify it even more tenaciously. Even irrefutable evidence is rarely enough to pierce the mental armor of self-justification.

I must remember that. Things become what you expect them to become. But I am granite. Nothing can shatter me.