Quotes About Mindset

Certainly it is a world of scarcity. But the scarcity is not confined to iron ore and available land. The most constricting scarcities are those of character and personality.

Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.

Jaeger" mindset. Light infantrymen are hunters on the battlefield and every effort should be made to impress this upon new members of the unit. All hunters require fieldcraft of a high order. Light infantry should hunt enemies the same way they hunt game.

Changing the mindset of your men is not a "one-off" event. It must start immediately and continue throughout training. One part of this is an ongoing education program to teach troops about the basics of light infantry. Such an education program may consist of guided professional reading with linked discussions, tactical decision games, sand-table exercises, and tactical exercises without troops.

do not let your frame of mind be any different from your everyday mind.

Your real intent should be not to die with weapons uselessly worn at your side.

How you approach birth is intimately connected with how you approach life

The parents who are most frustrated by high-need babies have difficulty unloading the baggage of a control mind-set. "High-need baby" says it all. It's

Nothing is good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

There is nothing good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

Yield not thy neckTo fortune's yoke, but let thy dauntless mindStill ride in triumph over all mischance.

What though care killed a cat, thou hast mettle enough in thee to kill care.

I am not in the giving vein today.

I do not set my life at a pin's fee.

He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.

He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stol'n,Let him not know 't and he's not robb'd at all.

He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stolen, Let him not know 't, and he's not robb'd at all.

Things are neither good nor bad but thinking makes it so.

Hope is a state of mind independent of the state of the world. If your heart's full of hope, you can be persistent when you can't be optimistic. You can keep the faith despite the evidence, knowing that only in so doing has the evidence any chance of changing. So while I'm not optimistic, I'm always very hopeful.

The man who counts his blessings will not have time to count his enemies.

Read not for the facts but for the angles of thinking.

What sustains this "win-lose" mindset is a sense of scarcity, the fear that there is just not enough to go around, so we need to look out for ourselves even at the expense of others.

I used to believe that gratitude for life came from being happy, but I have come to realize that the reverse is also true, perhaps even more so: being happy comes from feeling grateful for life.

This inner yes is an unconditionally constructive attitude of acceptance and respect—first toward yourself, then toward life, and finally toward others.