Quotes About Mindset

He said, "Don, when something hard happens to you, you have two choices in how to deal with it. You can either get bitter, or better. I chose to get better. It's made all the difference.

I believe that the greatest trick of the devil is not to get us into some sort of evil but rather have us wasting time. This is why the devil tries so hard to get Christians to be religious. If he can sink a man's mind into habit, he will prevent his heart from engaging God.

The day you stop losing sleep about your own success and start losing sleep over your customers' success is the day your business will start growing again.

If we begin our day believing life is supposed to be easy, we will certainly have a terrible day. Life is not easy, nor was it ever supposed to be.

What people believe is more important than how they look, what their skills are, or their degree of passion.

The larger point here is simple: the day we stop losing sleep over the success of our business and start losing sleep over the success of our customers is the day our business will start growing again.

when something hard happens to you, you have two choices in how to deal with it. You can either get bitter, or better.

When people are in a focused state, the words "I can't," "I'll try," "I'll do it tomorrow," and "maybe" get forced out of their vocabularies.

If you can accept losing, you already lost.

There are days when I think everything's getting worse, then there are days when I know they are. But then the sun comes out and I change my mind.

He realized how primitive this feeling was but, as a friend of his father had often said, he had only one head, so he had only one way to think about things.

Somehow the present had shrunk into a smaller and much less interesting place.

Pragmatists are often strangely superstitious.

Clearly 'worry' was the mark of a primitive and spiritually unevolved person.

not to look back or feel sad about things, that home is wherever I am.

What is the difference between an obstacle and an opportunity? Our attitude toward it. Every opportunity has a difficulty, and every difficulty has an opportunity.

Look for strengths in people, not weakness; for good, not evil. Most of us find what we search for.

Happiness isn't about what you do, Jack. It's about how you feel about what you do.

It is another of consumerism's ironies that, although it functions like a mental trap, we often think of it as an escape.

Almost everyone has a psychological gap between the way they believe they should act in daily life and how they actually behave. The more materialistic a person is, the wider that gap is likely to be. Knowingly or unknowingly, materialists often feel conflicted over their failure to be better people-they experience a sense of incongruence between their ideal self and their real self. Simplifiers tend to have narrower gaps and greater congruence.

We can't stop shopping, we must stop shopping. It isn't only that consumption is distorting the climate, felling the forests, cluttering out lives, filling our heads with a throwaway mindset, even stealing the stars from the night sky. The worst is that it leaves us with no idea of what else to do, no belief that things can be different. Whichever way we go, it leaves us doomed.

Happiness does not depend on outward circumstances, but on the state of the heart.

Borro had not made his mind politically correct when closing it.

The secret of happiness is not doing what we like but in liking what we do.