Quotes About Mindset

Think small. Change your notion of "thinking big" to "thinking small and getting big things done.

circumstances don't determine your state of mind, for that power rests with you. When you maintain a peaceful inner posture, even in the midst of chaos, you change your life.

Benjamin Franklin once observed, "While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.

The greater danger is not that our hopes are too high and we fail to reach them, it's that they are too low, and we do.

circumstances don't determine your state of mind, for that power rests with you.

Those who recognize problems as a human condition and don't measure happiness by an absence of problems are the most intelligent kind of humans we know; also, the most rare.

change our ingrained ways of thinking and see how our lives change as a result.

Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy because of the thoughts that you have about the people or things in your life. Becoming a free and healthy person involves learning to think differently.

How do you want to be perceived in this world? Anyone who responds that they don't care at all is trying to live with blinders on—a rather unbalanced style, to be sure.

You are the person responsible for how you feel. You feel what you think, and you can learn to think differently about anything—if you decide to do so.

You can be motivated out of a desire to grow rather than a need to repair your deficiencies. If you recognize that you can always grow, improve, become more and greater, that is enough.

The next time you are contemplating a decision in which you are debating whether or not to take charge of yourself, to make your own choice, ask yourself an important question, "How long am I going to be dead?" With that eternal perspective, you can now make your own choice and leave the worrying, the fears, the question of whether you can afford it and the guilt to those who are going to be alive forever.

An inner knowing, along with a burning desire, is the prerequisite for becoming a person capable of manifesting his or her heart's desires. In The Power of Awareness, Neville emphatically explains that "To be transformed, the whole basis of your thoughts must change. But your thoughts cannot change unless you have new ideas, for you think from your ideas.

Refuse to allow yourself to have low expectations about what you're capable of creating. As Michelangelo suggested, the greater danger is not that your hopes are too high and you fail to reach them; it's that they're too low and you do.

Change the way you look at things and things you look at, will change.

The logic of being able to choose your self-pictures applies to all of the photographs of you that are lodged in your brain. You are as socially adept as you choose to be. If you dislike the way you behave socially, you can work at changing the behavior and not confusing it with your own self-worth.

Health, wealth, beauty, and genius are not created; they are only manifested by the arrangement of your mind—that is, by your concept of yourself, and your concept of yourself is all that you accept and consent to as true."1

and I realized that Garrett was right about one thing- I had flipped. Completely.

if we walk far but are angry as we journey, we travel nowhere. If we hold grudges as we scale mountains, our view remains the same.

He tells us that life isn't about what happens to you, it's about what you do about what happens to you.

He never complained. He seemed to have no instinct for the making much of oneself that complaining requires.

One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide.

Self-pity is a sin. It is a form of living suicide.

We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair.