Quotes About Mindset

Maintainig a positive attitude is essential, especially in trying times

Your beliefs become your thoughts. Your thoughts become your words. Your words become your actions. Your actions become your habits. Your habits become your values. Your values become your destiny. —Mahatma Gandhi

Neatness is the hobogoblin of little minds

When push comes to shove, it ain't the science that's going to lift you up-it's the belief, the spiritual side of life, that's going to lift you up, no matter what religion you are.

To paraphrase Madeleine Albright, we face the task of understanding and governing 21st-century technologies with a 20th-century mindset and 19th-century institutions.

Play like you're positive on the victory, even though they're leading big now.

I have self-doubt. I have insecurity. I have fear of failure. I have nights when I show up at the arena and I'm like, 'My back hurts, my feet hurt, my knees hurt. I don't have it. I just want to chill.' We all have self-doubt. You don't deny it, but you also don't capitulate to it. You embrace it.

You always have to be on edge. You always have to take every practice, every game, like it is your last.

When I was young, my mindset was image, image, image. I took that approach with the media. As I became more experienced I realized: No matter what, people are going to like you or not like you. So be authentic, and let them like you or not for who you actually are.

Tinere?ea nu este o etap? a vie?ii, ci este o stare de spirit. Tinere?ea nu ?ine de obraji îmbujora?i, buze ro?ii ?i genunchi supli. Ea este o chestiune de voin??, un atribut al imagina?iei, o vigoare a emo?iilor.

I was entirely natural and in many ways I have the same attitude now. I don't mourn the loss of my youth because I believe you should enjoy what you have while you have it.

Worry can bring you down to nothing and make you doubt everything you know about yourself.

But any time you have a thought in your head about you that didn't come from the heart of God, you're trespassing against your own body.

Often, the difference between what is and what could be is not measured by the length of the track, but rather by the resistance between our ears.

The victim mentality is one of the deadliest mindsets, because a victim is totally incapable of changing his or her environment. Victims spend massive amounts of time sucking the life out of everyone else because they live in a powerless state of mind. Victims believe that their external world has to change in order for them to be okay. Because a victim is so out of control internally, he or she feels an enormous need to control everyone else.

many Christians live with limited, powerless, finite thinking. How is this even possible? How do people who claim to have the Creator of the universe living inside them, the mind of Christ thinking through them, and the Spirit of God influencing the world around them even have the nerve to think small?

The truth is, you do not always have power over what happens to you, but you do have complete control over what happens in you.

As the Holy Spirit restores us, He trains our wills to choose thoughts, values and behaviors that bring Him praise.

When you're living with a ticking clock, you can't be a loser. You can't think about what you won't get to see, what you'll never have. Ain't no one got time for that.

I'd try to channel my nervous energy in a positive way into strength and endurance. It didn't always work.

It is a bad habit of mind, a form of power-worship, to assume that things must be as they are, that they will continue to be as they have been. It soothes the conscience of the privileged, dulls the will of the oppressed. The first step toward change is the understanding that things can be different. This is my principal recommendation, then: we must recognize the possibility of a world without police.

Sweat has the power to end a pity party in such a way that even the hostess is happy.

If you stopped yourself every single time you were about to say, "I have to" and changed it to "I get to," it might change your entire experience.

I'm glad to be here right now, poking at my threshold. I want to get more comfortable being uncomfortable. I want to get more confident being uncertain. I don't want to shrink back just because something isn't easy. I want to push back, and make more room in the area between I can't and I can. Maybe that spot is called I will.