Quotes About Mindset

one must take into account the shocking fact that we live on a world that spins. After considering this truth, nothing should come as a surprise.

When one is experiencing failure, it is hard to resist the comfort of paranoia.

Sanity, however, was so integral to his character that neither hysteria nor horror could long have their way with him.

Progress is a natural result of staying focused on the process of doing anything.

When we subtly shift toward both focusing on and finding joy in the process of achieving instead of having the goal, we have gained a new skill. And once mastered, it is magical and incredibly empowering.

The second step in creating patience is understanding and accepting that there is no such thing as reaching a point of perfection in anything.

Consider a sailor trying to reach the horizon. It is unreachable. If the sailor sees the horizon as the point he must reach to achieve happiness, he is destined to experience eternal frustration

Getting the goal and achieving it are worlds apart.

Our culture does not recognize the value of being process oriented, even though we see so much evidence for it in the work produced by countries that do.

causing him to consider the possibility that there really was no such thing as happiness or unhappiness. Maybe there was only intensity-and then everything else.

I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

Her mother had not told Jane that happiness was not something she had waited for, but something she had decided.

Our own attitudes always seem OK because we use an attitude to judge itself. No matter how much misery our attitudes cause, we will always defend them.

The famous verses in Romans 12:1–2 warn us against being conformed to this world. How can we resist the pressures of this world? By being transformed by the renewal of our minds!

I forbid you, agnostic, doubting thoughts, to destroy the house of my faith.

It is amazing how many of those who consider themselves "thinking people" respond automatically to words the way Pavlov's dog was conditioned to respond to certain sounds

Our repeated failure to fully act as we would wish must not discourage us. It is the sincere intention that is the essential thing, and this will in time release us from the bondage of habits which at present seem almost insuperable.

We can gradually grow into any condition we desire, provided we first make ourselves in habitual mental attitude the person who corresponds to those conditions.

Whatever we believe does, for us, in very fact exist. Our beliefs may be erroneous from the point of view of a happier belief, but this does not alter the fact that for ourselves our beliefs are our realities, and these realities must continue until some ground is found for a change in belief.

Our Thought must necessarily be limited by our conceptions. We cannot think of something which we cannot conceive; and therefore, the more limited our conceptions, the more limited will be our thought, and its creations will accordingly be limited in a corresponding degree.

According to your faith be it unto you

First, see if you can make three positive comments for every negative one (and, by the way, a count is one negative comment).

Humility was never a loser.

If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.