Quotes About Mindset

Life holds so much, so much to be happy about always. Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can be felt only if you don't set any conditions.

When ill luck besets us, to ease the tension we have only to remember that happiness is relative. The next time you are tempted to grumble about what has happened to you, why not pause and be glad that it is no worse than it is?

I have found that most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

Happiness and love are just a choice away.

There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.

So when you're lonely or sad or bad or blue remember where laughter's hiding . . . it's hiding inside of YOU!

Men, in general, are but great great children.

Tis but a base, ignoble mind That mounts no higher than a bird can soar.

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above it.

The worst is not sSo long as we can say "This is the worst."

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

To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy ... is to set our own conditions to the events of each day. To do this is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them.

As soon as you open your eyes in the morning, you can square away for a happy and successful day. It's the mood and the purpose at the inception of each day that are the important facts in charting your course for the day. We can always square away for a fresh start, no matter what the past has been.

To sink a six-foot putt with thirty million people looking over your shoulder, convince yourself that, if you miss it, you will be embarrassed and poor.

What you praise you increase.

He never knew when he was whipped ... so he never was.

Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.

There was no such thing as defeat if you didn't accept it.

First there are those who are winners, and know they are winners. Then there are the losers who know they are losers. Then there are those who are not winners, but don't know it. They're the ones for me. They never quit trying. They're the soul of our game.

Blessed be he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

An obstinate man does not hold opinions, but they hold him.

The ideal never comes. Today is ideal for him who makes it so.

Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week's value out of a year while another man gets a full year's value out of a week.