Quotes About Mindset

That's the secret to life... replace one worry with another....

A joke was the best barometer for mental weather.

If you don't get this elementary, but mildly unnatural, mathematics of elementary probability into your repertoire, then you go through a long life like a one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest.

Our character is determined not by our circumstances but by our reaction to those circumstances.

Out of 10,000 feet of fall, always remember that the last half inch hurts the most.

If there are people at once rich and content, be assured that they are content because they know how to be so, not because they are rich

superstitious slavery" into "credulous piety" and "emotional

She brings seven pairs of underwear, two pairs of shoes. She brings an anxious disposition.

if you travel with an open mind and a good heart, and remain respectful of the country you're in, then you should be fine.

Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.

No such word as can't . No such word as babagoozle neither!

I avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.

Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.

What makes it unbearable is your mistaken belief that it can be cured.

If a given idea has been held in the human mind for many generations, as almost all our common ideas have, it takes sincere and continued effort to remove it; and if it is one of the oldest we have in stock, one of the big, common, unquestioned world ideas, vast is the labor of those who seek to change it.

It's how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success.

Don't accuse anyone with the temerity to question your sad supernatural fantasies of having a 'closed mind' or being 'blind to possibilities'. A closed mind asks no questions, unthinkingly accepting that which it wants to believe. The blindness is all yours.

Less energy on emotions, more energy on solutions" is a useful perspective most employers would like all of their employees to employ.

The danger for a small business is the inability to think and act big – The danger for a big business is the inability to think and act small…

My tendency to make up stories and lie compulsively for the sake of my own amusement takes up a good portion of my day and provides me with a peace of mind not easily attainable in this economic climate.

I don't like the word 'alcoholic'. I like to think of myself as an advanced drinker.

It's not what you do, it's how you do it.

Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves, and so I chose to tell myself a different story from the one women are told. I decided I was safe. I was strong. I was brave. Nothing could vanquish me. Insisting on this story was a form of mind control, but for the most part, it worked.

Self-pity is a dead-end road. You make the choice to drive down it. It's up to you to decide to stay parked there or to turn around and drive out.