Quotes About Mindset

If you are going to win any battle, you have to do one thing. You have to make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do… the body is never tired if the mind is not tired.

America is a young country with an old mentality.

Letting go of discouragement is no more difficult than holding on to it; and letting go is so much more empowering.

A picture you hold long enough in your head becomes your reality..

The difference between a jogger and a runner is an entry blank.

The athlete doesn't stop smoking and start training. He starts training and finds he has stopped smoking.

In addition to going against the herd, you've said one of your techniques is to set yourself outside the process. What do you mean exactly? How do you get outside? I am outside. I am a thinking participant and thinking means putting yourself outside the subject you think about. Perhaps it comes easier to me than to many others because I have a very abstract mind and I actually enjoy looking at things, including myself, from the outside.

Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person's own mind, than on the externals in the world.

Rather than the obsession with impurity, you'd do better to fear the nostalgia for purity.

It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

I have no ambition to change my nature, I merely intend to conquer my dislikes.

When you spend all your time looking back—" "You miss the opportunities ahead,

Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing--and keeping the unknown always beyond you.

I do not like the idea of happiness -- it is too momentary.

Master the power of attitude and you'll live a powerful life.

Love, then, is really everything that is of value, and fear can offer us nothing because it is nothing.

Guilt and fear are so intertwined that they cannot be separated. Love and guilt cannot exist simultaneously any more than love and fear can.

In order to experience peace instead of conflict, it is necessary to shift our perception.

If you want to turn your life around, try thankfulness. It will change your life mightily.

How strange it is, Anna. Yesterday, I have filed in my mind as a good day, notwithstanding it was filled with mortal illness and the grieving of the recently bereft. Yet it is a good day, for the simple fact that no one died upon it. We are brought to a sorry state, that we measure what is good by such a shortened yardstick.

Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

When a man is gloomy, everything seems to go wrong; when he is cheerful, everything seems right!

Years back someone said cod liver oil was the cure-all! Cheerfulness is more palliative and with no unpleasant aftertaste.

Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be happy. Well, that is doubtful. So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can and don't put off being happy until some future date.