Quotes About Mindset

The next time Trouble—with a capital T—backs you up in a corner, try the magic formula of Willis H Carrier: a. Ask yourself, "What is the worst that can possibly happen if I can't solve my problem?" b. Prepare yourself mentally to accept the worst—if necessary. c. Then calmly try to improve upon the worst—which you have already mentally agreed to accept.

About ninety percent of the things in our lives are right and about ten percent are wrong. If we want to be happy, all we have to do is to concentrate on the ninety percent that are right and ignore the ten percent that are wrong.

For life is too short to be little.

If you had as much sense as a half-witted hummingbird, you would realize that I am interested in how big I am—not how big you are. All this talk about your enormous success makes me feel small and unimportant.]

Fórjese la idea de la persona capaz, empeñosa, útil, que desea ser, y esa idea lo irá transformando hora tras hora en tal individuo... El pensamiento es supremo

El resultado de esta actitud fue una mayor obediencia a las reglas, sin resentimientos ni tensiones emocionales.

Quando lhe perguntei por que fez isso, ela respondeu: "Assim eu não teria tempo para a tristeza e a preocupação.

Yes, everyone faces challenges in their lives, and people commonly say it doesn't matter what the challenge is; what matters is how one responds to it.

Rule 2 is: If you have a worry problem, apply the magic formula of Willis H. Carrier by doing these three things: Ask yourself, "What is the worst that can possibly happen?" Prepare to accept it if you have to. Then calmly proceed to improve on the worst.

have yet to find the person, however great or exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than he would ever do under a spirit of criticism.

Here we are on this earth, with only a few more decades to live, and we lose many irreplaceable hours brooding over grievances that, in a year's time, will be forgotten by us and by everybody. No, let us devote our life to worth-while actions and feelings, to great thoughts, real affections and enduring undertakings. For life is too short to be little.

I soon found that you can catch health, happiness, and success from others just as easily as you can catch worries, bitterness, and failure.

The divinity that shapes our ends is in ourselves. It is our very self…. All that a man achieves is the direct result of his own thoughts…. A man can only rise, conquer and achieve by lifting up his thoughts. He can only remain weak and abject and miserable by refusing to lift up his thoughts.

working to focus our attention on the positive.

But your scale still tips one way or another every day.

I discovered years ago that although I couldn't keep people from criticizing me unjustly, I could do something infinitely more important: I could determine whether I would let the unjust condemnation disturb me.

the Roman Empire, Marcus Aurelius, summed it up in eight words—eight words that can determine your destiny: "Our life is what our thoughts make it.

Získávejte sílu z pozitivních vÄ›cí a nepodrývejte si ji soustÃ…â"¢edÄ›ním na negativa.

If I knew your thoughts, I would know what you are, for your thoughts make you who you are. By changing our thoughts, we can change our lives.

In relation to spiritual disciplines, the most helpful distinction is the difference between trying to do something and training to do something.

the situations in which we find ourselves are never as important as our responses to them, which come from our "spiritual" side.

Our task in ourselves and in others is to transform right answers into automatic responses to real-life situations.

No, you don't have to certain about anything you're not certain about. In fact, certainty is not something you can choose, anyway. Certainty and uncertainty are not things that are under the will.

Indeed, all human troubles come from thinking of God wrongly, which then means, thinking about ourselves wrongly. God