Quotes About Mindset

I know of no one thing that will have a greater influence upon your life than the forming of the habit of thinking of yourself as lucky, regarding yourself as extremely fortunate in your birth, in your location, in your adaptation to your particular line of work, as fortunate in your ambition and in your chance in life to make good.

We tend to get what we expect, and if we expect nothing we get nothing. The stream cannot rise higher than its fountainhead;

We can so educate the will power that it will focus the thoughts upon the bright side of things, and upon objects which elevate the soul, thus forming a habit of happiness and goodness which will enrich the whole life. The habit of making the best of everything and of always looking on the bright side is a fortune in itself.

You, young man, make up your mind at the very outset of your career that whatever comes to you in life, that whether you succeed or fail, whether you have this or that, there is one thing you will have, and that is a happy, contented mind, that you will extract your happiness as you go along.

The great mass of people do not extract ten per cent, of the happiness possible in their everyday life, largely because they were never trained to think of the normal sources of enjoyment. Their minds are blank, except for the little grooves which their daily routine has stamped in their brain tissue.

Quit fearing things that may never happen, just as you would quit any bad practise which has caused you suffering. Fill your mind with courage, hope, and confidence.

The true way to conquer circumstances is to be a greater circumstance yourself.

In order to learn, one must change one's mind.

Your trust in rationality makes you irrational.

Every time, I've won because I could understand the way my enemy though. From what they did. I could tell what they though I was doing, how they wanted the battle to take shape. And I played off of that. I'm very good at that. Understanding how other people think. - Ender Wiggin

Is the future, is the past, all that matters to you? Don't you have just a little bit of room for the present?

He knew he could always be smart later, if that turned out to be a better strategy. But once you admitted to being smart, there was no going back.

In Russia you learn patience, said Ivan. In America you learn action.

It was not about physical strength, Wit reminded himself. It was 90 percent mental, 10 percent physical. That's what the SEAL instructors were looking for: men and women who could disregard the pleadings of the body. Pain was nothing, sleep was nothing. What was chaffed skin, wrecked muscles, bleeding sores? The body chooses to be sore. The body chooses to be exhausted. But the SEAL mind rejects it. The SEAL mind commands the body, not the other way around.

How much time? Not as much as I had yesterday.

Such feelings are natural. They come and go quickly. Only those who make them a way of life are to be condemned for them.

I'm not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor.

It is so easy to convince others; it is so difficult to convince oneself.

We should treat all the trivial things of life seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality.

Pain's nothing. Pains what you give, not what you get.

The Man who says he can, and the man who says he can not.. Are both correct

The noble-minded are calm and steady. Little people are forever fussing and fretting.

Learn as if you were not reaching your goal and as though you were scared of missing it