Quotes About Mindset

Heaven and hell is right now. ... You make it heaven or you make it hell by your actions.

You have to take it as it happens, but you should try to make it happen the way you want to take it.

Happiness is not in our circumstances, but in ourselves. It is not something we see, like a rainbow, or feel, like the heat of a fire. Happiness is something we are.

If you don't like something about yourself, change it. If you can't change it, accept it.

There are some men above grief and some men below it.

The poor and the busy have no leisure for sentimental sorrow.

Knute Rockne liked 'bad losers.' He said 'good losers' lose too often.

We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that's a very next step to being dull.

Many people have the ambition to succeed; they may even have a special aptitude for their job. And yet they do not move ahead. Why? Perhaps they think that since they can master the job, there is no need to master themselves.

To be ambitious for wealth, and yet always expecting to be poor; to be always doubting your ability to get what you long for, is like trying to reach east by traveling west. There is no philosophy which will help man to succeed when he is always doubting his ability to do so, and thus attracting failure. No matter how hard you work for success, if your thought is saturated with the fear of failure, it will kill your efforts, neutralize your endeavors and make success impossible.

It's in the preparation-in those dreary pedestrian virtues they taught you in seventh grade and you didn't believe. It's making the extra call and caring a lot.

Our business in life is not to get ahead of others but to get ahead of ourselves-to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterdays by our today, to do our work with more force than ever before.

Before you can win a game, you have to not lose it.

Happiness is not a station to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.

Suspicion is far more apt to be wrong than right; oftener unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.

The bible should be taught so early and so thoroughly that it sinks straight to the bottom of the mind where everything that comes along can settle on it.

If you are afraid for your future, you don't have a present.

Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.

A great many open minds should be closed for repairs.

Strength is a matter of the made-up mind.

Anyone who limits her vision to memories of yesterday is already dead.

Forget mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day.

Work accomplished means little. It is in the past. What we all want is the glorious and living present.

Don't waste today regretting yesterday instead of making a memory for tomorrow.