Quotes About Mindset

Calm, Butler told himself. Passion is the enemy of efficiency.

Pull yourself together. You are a professional . She didn't feel very professional. She felt like a girl out of her depth. Your body is playing tricks on your mind. Ignore it .

Gustavo Solivellas dice: No es lo que te ocurre, sino cómo reaccionas lo que importa (Epíteto)

What really frightens and dismays us is not external events themselves, but the way in which we think about them. It is not things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significance.

We are not disturbed by what happens to us, but by our thoughts about what happens to us.

It is not so much what happens to you as how you think about what happens.

Men are not afraid of things, but of how they view them.

It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous -- even death is terrible only if we fear it.

The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.

Your happiness depends on three things, all of which are within your power: your will, your ideas concerning the events in which you are involved, and the use you make of your ideas.

We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

Men are disturbed not by the things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen.

What concerns me is not the way things are, but the way people think things are.

Men are disturbed, not by things, but by the principles and notions which they form concerning things.

Men are disturbed not by the things which happen, but by the opinion about the things.

The condition and characteristic of an uninstructed person is this: he never expects from himself profit (advantage) nor harm, but from externals. The condition and characteristic of a philosopher is this: he expects all advantage and all harm from himself.

Man is troubled not by events, but by the meaning he gives to them.

No one is ever unhappy because of someone else.

Men are disturbed not by the things which happen, but by the opinions about the things:

It is not events that disturb people, it is their judgements concerning them.

Circumstances do not rise to meet our expectations. Events happen as they do. People behave as they are. Embrace what you actually get.

Wherever I go it will be well with me, for it was well with me here, not on account of the place, but of my judgments which I shall carry away with me, for no one can deprive me of these; on the contrary, they alone are my property, and cannot be taken away, and to possess them suffices me wherever I am or whatever I do.

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.