Quotes About Mindset

Your difficulty can be hard enough, but the resentment or anger you drag along with it can be even more debilitating than the difficulty itself.

Well, you can't control what they do, but you can control how you respond to it…whether you allow it to drive you crazy, or occupy all of your thoughts, or whether you note what they're doing, consider it, and make a conscious decision as to how much you'll let it affect you

Have you ever considered that there might be something wrong with your brain? Oh, I think there might be something wrong with everyone else's.

It isn't important what you do, it is the attitude with which you proceed through the world that matters.

people who strongly value the pursuit of wealth and possessions report lower psychological well-being than those who are less concerned with such aims.

One cannot be free from the stresses of a speed- and size-obsessed culture, until you are free from the materialistic addictions, time-famine mindset, and comparative impulses that created it in the first place.

A new life begins for us with every second. Let us go forward joyously to meet it. We must press on whether we will or no, and we shall walk better with our eyes before us than with them ever cast behind.

For practical purposes I will define Wu Shi or the Warrior Spirit as a dance between striving to win, yet not needing to win to be successful.

Whenever your child loses a game, has a setback, or makes a mistake, wait a day and then ask this thought-provoking question: "Why are you a better athlete now than you were before that loss or mistake?

Keep your head up in failure, and your head down in success.

If you believe it, it happens. If you don't, it doesn't. When you believe him, you put your own power in his hands.

He said he would try, but I guess he never got the chance. About the last thing I remember him saying was "Don't worry so much about it. It's not the sneakers that count, it's the feet.

Rather, he found himself inhabiting the vast, empty plateau where most people live, between boredom and contentment.

the less energy people expend on performance, the more they expend on appearances to compensate.

I'm not going to drown in what I can't change.

The things you fear are undefeatable not by their nature but by your approach

What we believe as human nature in actuality is human habit.

And believing that we are broken is the same as being broken. It means we experience ourselves that way. That perception shapes our reality. It is an illusion we must strive to avoid, as great misery comes from such a belief.

love yourself,.,.,.,for the sake of your better future

The numbing mind-ream of knowing you're alone not because people won't accept you but because you find so little worth accepting. An imposed solitude is better than simply tolerating your company in waiting for something better. So loneliness is not such a terrible thing when you consider that the alternative to thought provoking solace is to be surrounded only by remindings of why that solitude is preferable.

Prayer doesn't work in the way that you think. If you pray for good health and it is genuine, you might be coming into sickness. The essence of good health has to do with a most delicate well-being.

Self-respect doesn't come naturally to me. I need to constantly remind myself and do the work to err on the side of self-respect, rather than self-punishment.

Making sweeping statements such as 'no sweets ever again' has never worked before, and it's not going to work now. You'll get quickly overwhelmed and punt on any positive momentum you created.

I've really turned a corner recently in terms of not taking work too seriously, so it is much easier for me to not take my work home.