Quotes About Mindset

People approach any task with one of two mindsets: what I call the "Be-Good" mindset, where your focus is on proving that you have a lot of ability and already know what you're doing, and the "Get-Better" mindset, where your focus is on developing ability. You can think of it as the difference between wanting to prove that you are smart, and wanting to get smarter.

Do you know how to die victoriously? Quit keeping score of the injustices that have happened to you.

1. The Assumption Gap—"I Assume That I Will Automatically Grow

Las personas se están preparando para el éxito cuando deberían estarse preparando para el fracaso. Fracasar es mucho más común que triunfar; la pobreza está más generalizada que la riqueza; y la desilusión es más normal que los logros.

People who make growth their goal—instead of a title, position, salary, or other external target—always have a future.

Who you are determines the way you see everything. You cannot separate your identity from your perspective.

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

Un carácter débil limita a una persona.

All things being equal, attitude wins. All things not being equal, attitude sometimes still wins.

Cuál es la diferencia entre un obstáculo y una oportunidad? Nuestra actitud hacia él. Toda oportunidad tiene una dificultad y toda dificultad tiene una oportunidad».1

To limit our lives to our past experiences is to cheat ourselves from developing our potential and increasing our possibilities for success. Mark Twain said, "If a cat sits on a hot stove, it will never sit on a hot stove again. Of course, it will never sit on a cold one either." Forget your past failures and begin to enlarge your expectations for tomorrow.

La mayor parte de las personas buscan la excepción en vez de ser excepcionales.

But here's the good news: maintaining the right attitude is easier than regaining the right attitude.

El problema es que la mayoría de las personas dan demasiada importancia a los acontecimientos y subestiman el poder de los procesos.

A Chinese proverb I came across gives insight: "Assume a cheerfulness you do not feel, and shortly you feel the cheerfulness you assumed." Or as editor and publisher Elbert Hubbard says, "Be pleasant until 10 a.m. and the rest of the day will take care of itself." When you get up in the morning, you need to remind yourself of the decision you've made to have a positive attitude.

A strong positive self image is the best possible preparation for success in life.

Only by practicing and developing your thinking daily will your ideas get better. Your thinking ability is determined not by your desire to think, but by your past thinking.

That no matter how often someone says you can't do something, by simply working harder and trying, you can prove them wrong and actually change your circumstance. Change your thinking and it will change your life.

El liderazgo es una decisión que usted toma, no un lugar donde usted se sienta.

What about unfulfilled potential? That phrase is as negative as the word potential is positive. My friend Florence

But being has to precede doing if you want to change your world.

Get a new definition of failure. Regard it as the price you pay for progress. If you can do that, you will put yourself in a much better position to fail forward.

Washington Irving once commented, "Great minds have purposes; others have wishes. Little minds are subdued by misfortunes; but great minds rise above them.

Es más fácil avanzar del fracaso al éxito que de las excusas al éxito!