Quotes About Mindset

The only place you can win a football game is on the field. The only place you can lose it is in your heart.

One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

When I come into a game in the bottom of the ninth, bases loaded, no one out and a one-run lead ... it takes people off my mind.

A man can believe in a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.

Tender-handed stroke a nettle, and it stings you for your pains; Grasp it like a man of mettle, and it soft as silk remains.

The world does not have to change.... The only thing that has to change is our attitude.

The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

The first step toward change is acceptance. Once you accept yourself, you open the door to change. That's all you have to do. Change is not something you do, it's something you allow.

Always bring money along with your complaints.

Form the habit of making decisions when your spirit is fresh ... to let dark moods lead is like choosing cowards to command armies.

It is always thus, impaled by a state of mind which is destined not to last, that we make our irrevocable decisions.

The moment a question comes to your mind, see yourself mentally taking hold of it and disposing of it. In that moment... you learn to become the decider and not the vacillator. Thus you build character.

The last, if not the greatest, of the human freedoms: to choose their own attitude in any given circumstance.

To be ambitious for wealth, and yet always expecting to be poor; to be always doubting your ability to get what you long for, is like trying to reach east by traveling west. There is no philosophy which will help a man to succeed when he is always doubting his ability to do so, and thus attracting failure. No matter how hard you work for success, if your thought is saturated with the fear of failure, it will kill your efforts, neutralize your endeavors and make success impossible.

I'd hate to be a teetotaler. Imagine getting up in the morning and knowing that's as good as you're going to feel all day.

As I grow older, part of my emotional survival plan must be to actively seek inspiration instead of passively waiting for it to find me.

We always attract into our lives whatever we think about most, believe in most strongly, expect on the deepest level, and imagine most vividly.

Judge each day not by it's harvest, but by the seeds you plant.

I have seen boys on my baseball team go into slumps and never come out of them, and I have seen others snap right out and come back better than ever. I guess more players lick themselves than are ever licked by an opposing team. The first thing any man has to know is how to handle himself.

I'm not happy, I'm cheerful. There's a difference. A happy woman has no cares at all. A cheerful woman has cares but has learned how to deal with them.

We are not troubled by things, but by the opinion which we have of things.

Riches, like glory or health, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleased to lend them.

The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.

Little things affect little minds.