Quotes About Mindset

You don't let your enemies take your balls, you don't let them set up shop in your head.

Glance at negatives, but focus on positives.

They who have no central purpose in their life fall an easy prey to petty worries.

Not only does language reflect a person's thinking, but it also reinforces a person's thinking.

Almost any negative thought pattern can be broken with thoughts of gratitude. When you "think thanks," you dial into what you have instead of what you lack. The effect is immediate—you feel positive.

You can't be negative when you're in giving-thanks mode. You can't be jealous of others when you are filled with a sense of personal abundance. Gratitude will improve your attitude and lift the altitude at which you fly in life.

Gratitude is a muscle, not a feeling,

never let our expectations define our level of thankfulness.

Napoleon Hill observed many successful men during his research for Think and Grow Rich. All of them had a strong self-image that was protected by a track record of keeping their commitments, even when doing so required herculean efforts.

I don't try to focus on anything that doesn't affect me personally and how I go out there every single day. I'm just going to continue to work hard and focus on what I can control.

You cannot keep your eyes on the bloody footprints you have left behind you. You must keep your eyes on where you are going.

What's pretty important, and least was for me, (related an exceptionally good pinch-hitter on the pressures involved with failing with so much at stake) you can't be afraid to enjoy the moment.

It is an underacknowledged truism that, just as you are what you eat, how and what you think depends on what information you are exposed to.

It is an underacknowledged truism that, just as you are what you eat, how and what you think depends on what information you are exposed to. How

People will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.

The most important trick to be happy is to realize that happiness is a choice that you make and a skill that you develop. You choose to be happy, and then you work at it. It's just like building muscles.

If you let your learning lead to knowledge, you become a fool. If you let your learning lead to action, you become wealthy.

We do not rise to the level of our expectations. We fall to the level of our training." —Archilochus

every day, it's something to reflect on and think about 'How do I become less competitive in order that I can become more successful?

You always have three options. You can change it, you can accept it, or you can leave it. What is not a good option is to sit around wishing you would change it but not changing it, wishing you would leave it but not leaving it, and not accepting it. It's that struggle, that aversion, that is responsible for most of our misery. The phrase that I probably use the most to myself in my head is just one word: accept.

Age doesn't matter: an open mind does.

Happiness is a choice you make and a skill you develop.

most people spend most of their time on defense, in reactive mode, in playing with the cards they got instead of moving to a different table with different cards. Instead

There's no difference between a pessimist who says, "Oh, it's hopeless, so don't bother doing anything," and an optimist who says, "Don't bother doing anything, it's going to turn out fine anyway." Either way, nothing happens. —YVON CHOUINARD,7 founder of Patagonia