Quotes About Mindset

A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.

The fiercely competitive are fierce because they don't see themselves as competitive.

It's all in the mind.

I always say be humble but be firm. Humility and openness are the key to success without compromising your beliefs.

An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out.

People always think that success will bring happiness, that money will bring happiness. Success does not breed happiness. Positive energy breeds happiness and happiness breeds success.

It is an undeniable privilege of every man to prove himself right in the thesis that the world is his enemy; for if he reiterates it frequently enough and makes it the background of his conduct he is bound eventually to be right.

Finding Money Maturity means resolving your inner conflicts around money. It really comes down to discovering a sense of ease around money.

As soon as we become aware of money, we develop beliefs about it-- beliefs we cling to, sometimes for the rest of our lives, often at the cost of our souls.

Every money message we hold on to contains a fatal flaw; it impressions us in an incomplete world.

Competition is the spice of sports but if you make spice the whole meal you'll be sick.

Perhaps the best you can hope for on the master's journey—whether your art be management or marriage, badminton or ballet—is to cultivate the mind and heart of the beginning at every stage along the way. For the master, surrender means there are no experts. There are only learners.

Where in our upbringing, our schooling, our career are we explicitly taught to value, to enjoy, even to love the plateau, the long stretch of diligent effort with no seeming progress?

Indecision leads to inaction, which leads to low energy, depression, despair.

The best way to describe your total creative capacity is to say that for all practical purposes it is infinite.

Always imitate the behavior of the winners when you lose.

All fear does is waste time.

The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost.

Laughter is poison to fear.

The man who fears losing has already lost.

When you find yourself in bed with an ugly woman, the best thing to do is close your eyes and get on with it

I told them to place a cyvasse table in your chambers." "Who was I supposed to play with?" "Yourself. Sometimes it is best to study a game before you attempt to play it. How well do you know the game, Arianne?" "Well enough to play." "But not to win. My brother loved the fight for its own sake, but I only played such games as I can win.

I much prefer angry and stupid to composed and cunning.

Proper preparation is the key to our success. Our acts can be no wiser than our thoughts. Our thinking can be no wiser than our understanding.