Quotes About Mindset

We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.

Do each daily task the best we can; act as though the eye of opportunity were always upon us.

The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.

Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom.

Two men look out through the same bars: One sees the mud, and one the stars.

He that is discontented in one place will seldom be happy in another.

Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.

I never admired another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex; you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.

Fear of losing is what makes competitors so great. Show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a permanent loser.

Fear is the dark room in which negatives are developed.

Get into the habit of looking for the silver lining of the cloud, and, when you have found it, continue to look at it, rather than at the leaden gray in the middle. It will help you over many hard places.

I only have to stop the puck, not beat it to death.

You just have to learn not to care about the dust mites under the beds.

A pessimist is one who feels bad when he feels good for fear he'll feel worse when he feels better.

Man is what he believes.

Life has, indeed, many ills, but the mind that views every object in its most cheering aspect, and every doubtful dispensation as replete with latent good, bears within itself a powerful and perpetual antidote.

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. Life would undergo a change of appearance because we ourselves had undergone a change in attitude.

People only see what they are prepared to see.

We are never so happy or so unhappy as we think.

Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.

The most unhappy of all men is he who believes himself to be so.

It isn't our position, but our disposition, that makes us happy.

When people asked, I used to tell them how sick I was. The more I talked about being sick, the worse I got. Finally, I started saying, "I'm getting better." It took a while, but then I started to feel better, too.