Quotes About Mindset

Very often, the only obstacles in our path are the ones we place there in our own minds.

People get so frightened for no reason, but I'll tell you, to live with no purpose is a far more frightening proposition... You bring yourself to say yes when you always thought the only possible answer was no, and your whole world changes.

does one start believing in love? How do you turn off your brain and everything you've seen and heard in the past twenty years?

at the end of the day, people who are positive and optimistic are simply more attractive than people who are negative and pessimistic.

The regrets of yesterday and the fear of tomorrow can kill you.

Reality is something you rise above.

If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all thinking, damages his personality and makes him a landlord to a ghost.

As it is in the body, so it is in the mind; practice makes it what it is, and most even of those excellencies, what are looked on as natural endowments, will be found, when examined into more narrowly, to be the product of exercise, and to be raised to that pitch, only by repeated actions.

Inuring children gently to suffer some degrees of pain without shrinking, is a way to gain firmness to their minds, and lay a foundation for courage and resolution in the future part of their lives.

Maybe there's no such thing as happily ever after. Maybe okay for now is the best you get.

Expect stupid. It's everywhere.

There is none so troubled as one who thinks himself perfectly sane.

You can learn to project more power without becoming meaner. In fact, that's your problem. You think mean and powerful are the same thing.

Check your assumptions. In fact, check your assumptions at the door.

If you can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart.

A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.

I was ashamed to find myself contemplating that for the traveller, Iran's charms lay in its isolation. This was not a mindset I liked, or approved of; I didn't want to be like the smug backpackers in The Beach, trying to keep their special place a secret. I wanted the Iranian people to reap all the benefits from engaging with the world and for the rest of us to wake up to the reality that Iran is not a nation of desert-dwelling terrorists.

The good Lord gave you a body that can stand most anything. It's your mind you have to convince.

Winning is not a sometime thing: it's an all the time thing. You don't win once in a while; you don't do the right thing once in a while; you do them right all the time. Winning is a habit.

Teams do not go physically flat, they go mentally stale.

It's all in your head -- you just have no idea how big your head is.

Happiness isn't something that depends on our surroundings, Corrie. It's something we make inside ourselves.

The happiest people are the people with the best attitudes, not the best lives.

I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.