Quotes About Mindset

Optimism is an intellectual choice.

Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro football, anything that you can mention. I go out there thinking that I am going to complete every pass.

The world has a way of giving what is demanded of it. If you are frightened and look for failure and poverty, you will get them, no matter how hard you may try to succeed. Lack of faith in yourself, in what life will do for you, cuts you off from the good things of the world. Expect victory and you make victory. Nowhere is this truer than in business that is, where bravery and faith bring both material and spiritual rewards.

The world has a way of giving what is demanded of it. If you are frightened and look for failure and poverty, you will get them, no matter how hard you may try to succeed. Lack of faith in yourself, in what life will do for you, cuts you off from the good things of the world. Expect victory and you make victory. Nowhere is this truer than in business life, where bravery and faith bring both material and spiritual rewards.

I've never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is a temporary situation.

Prayer is not merely an occasional impulse to which we respond when we are in trouble: prayer is a life attitude.

The clue is not to ask in a miserly way-the key is to ask in a grand manner.

Nothing is impossible for the person who doesn't have to do it.

Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

The way to achieve happiness is to have a high standard for yourself and a medium one for everyone else.

Nobody has things just as he would like them. The thing to do is to make a success with what material I have. It is a sheer waste of time and soul-power to imagine what I would do if things were different. They are not different.

My expectations-which I extended whenever I came close to accomplishing my goals-made it impossible ever to feel satisfied with my success.

Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.

No man is demolished but by himself.

Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind. You are as old as your doubt, your fear, your despair. The way to keep young is to keep your faith young. Keep your self-confidence young. Keep your hope young.

Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us.

He who complains, sins.

You can overcome anything if you don't bellyache.

When any fit of gloominess, or perversion of mind, lays hold upon you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaints.

Self-pity is a death that has no resurrection, a sinkhole from which no rescuing hand can drag you because you have chosen to sink.

Others may argue about whether the world ends with a bang or a whimper. I just want to make sure mine doesn't end with a whine.

Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.

Ruin and recovery are both from within.