Quotes About Mindset

Weaknes my simply be a flash of doubt in the mind. One moment of doubt can be enough to be defeated

I've reached a point in my life where it's the little things that matter... I was always a rebel and probably could have got much farther had I changed my attitude. But when you think about it, I got pretty far without changing attitudes. I'm happier with that.

Procrastination is simply a way of deceiving yourself into believing your actions will be easier in the future.

You can't always control your circumstances, but you can choose to be happy. When you're unhappy it's not the result of circumstances but the result of thought, which is why feeling unhappy often coincides with feelings of helplessness. To be happy is associated with the knowledge that how you think and feel will always be your choice, which will put you in charge of your life.

Circumstances can be neither positive or negative; there are neutral. Only by your thinking do you attribute circumstances either positive or negative.

the more sense it made to me that if my thinking had gotten me in the mess I was in, then my thinking could also be my savior and lead me to a better life.

We cannot change anything in our life without first changing the originating cause. And everything in our life originates in our thoughts.

People are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound."—As A Man Thinketh

As Jim Rohn says: "if the idea of having to change ourselves makes us uncomfortable, we can remain as we are. We can choose rest over labor, entertainment over education, delusion over truth, and doubt over confidence. The choices are ours to make. But while we curse the effect, we continue to nourish the cause.

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them.

Thoughts of lack and scarcity breed feelings of aggressiveness, selfishness, worry, and jealousy. Its effects are negative. Thoughts of abundance breed feelings of kindness, love, prosperity, and generosity. Its effects are positive. Which thoughts you choose to focus on is entirely up to you.

A person cannot directly choose his circumstances, but he can choose his thoughts, and so indirectly, yet surely, shape his circumstances."—As A Man Thinketh

Work each day on your thoughts rather than concentrating on your behavior. It is your thinking that creates the feelings that you have and ultimately your actions as well.

It's pretty much the same for all circumstances in your life. Your outer abundance will reflect your inner abundance, and your outer lack will reflect your inner lack. If you want to change your circumstances, you must become the person in the circumstances you want to live in.

You must, however, not lose your sense of humor, which is also a great item in your success. Sense of humor is the counterweight for your misfortunes which you will meet from time to time, from the smallest to the biggest ... If you take anything seriously without any sense of humor and you should happen to fail, it will be the beginning of your downfall.

people cause so much of their own suffering just because they think that without having these strong emotions they're not real people.

He knows he only has the choice of going crazy or going inside and finding his own mind, which is what Buddhism is all about. Buddhism maintains that one's reality is part of one's own mindset, and that through discovering your own mind, even in the direst situations you can make your world a pure realm.

Just as we can get caught in outmoded habit-patterns passed down through generations, we can also get trapped by our habitual thinking just as much as—and just as erroneously as—people who maintained until recently that the earth was visibly and verifiably flat. We also get stuck in unconscious and invisible boxes that limit our ability to think in new ways.

Who Is This Book For? This program works for anyone who earns or spends money—not because anyone can be rich, but because everyone can discover for themselves how much is enough . . . and have that. It helps you transform your relationship with money—and we all have one. In fact, "enough" is the radical promise of Your Money or Your Life.

Instead of a dark box billionaire, you are probably hoping to become a lighthearted, productive, free person who just happens to never have to worry about money again.

how much would it take to make you happy," almost everyone, in every income bracket, said: 50 percent more than I have now. When asked to rate their happiness on a scale of 1 to 5, there was no significant difference between the top and bottom earners. You could hear a pin drop as people realized that the person in the row ahead of them probably had the "more" they thought would make them happy—and it made no difference.

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms -- to chose one's attitudes in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.

Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.