Quotes About Mindset

Men are not influenced by things, but by their thoughts about things.

Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.

I can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses. It's all how you look at it.

Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome duty into an interesting opportunity.

Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.

Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.

Life consists not in holding good cards, but in playing those you do hold well.

When we begin to take our failures non-seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

Keep your sense of humor. There's enough stress in the rest of your life to let bad shots ruin a game you're supposed to enjoy.

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs, jolted by every pebble in the road.

I made a mistake today, I made a mistake yesterday. I think it's ... very important to ignore the negative.

The biggest quality in successful people I think is an impatience with negative thinking. ... How many opportunities come along? If you wait for the right one, that's wrong, because it may never be right, and what have you got to lose? Even if it's a disaster, you've tried, you've learned something, you've had an adventure. And that doesn't mean you can't do it again.

When we can begin to take our failures non-seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind, and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Failure is not sweet, but it need not be bitter.

Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.

I used to store my anger and it affected my play. Now I get it out. I'm never rude to my playing partner. I'm very focused on the ball. Then it's over.

Considering the fortune you might have lost, you'll have to admit you're rich already.

It's a grand thing to be able to take your money in your hand and to think no more of it when it slips away from you than you would a trout that would slip back into the stream.

Philosophy ... should not pretend to increase our present stock, but make us economists of what we are possessed of.

Moderate desires constitute a character fitted to acquire all the good which the world can yield. He who has this character is prepared, in whatever situation he is, therewith to be content and has learned the science of being happy.

We are all of us richer than we think we are.

The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well.