Quotes About Mindset

Tell yourself what you want to be, then act your part accordingly.

We should realize that an opinion is not easily formed unless a person says and hears the same things every day and practises them in real life.

Disease is an impediment to the body, but not to the will, unless the will itself chooses. Lameness is an impediment to the leg, but not to the will. And add this reflection on the occasion of everything that happens; for you will find it an impediment to something else, but not to yourself. X

What upsets people is not things themselves but their judgements about these things.

When you are feeling upset, angry, or sad," Epictetus said, Ã¢â'¬Å"don't blame another for your state of mind. Your condition is the result of your own opinions and interpretations. . . .

It isn't death, pain, exile or anything else you care to mention that accounts for the way we act, only our opinion about death, pain and the rest.

Nothing important comes into being overnight; even grapes and figs need time to ripen. If you say that you want a fig now, I will tell you to be patient. First, you must allow the tree to flower, then put forth fruit; then you have to wait until the fruit is ripe. So if the fruit of a fig tree is not brought to maturity instantly or in an hour, how do you expect the human mind to come to fruition, so quickly and easily?

Man is disturbed not by things, but by the views he takes of them.

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

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

understand that every event is indifferent and nothing to you, of whatever sort it may be; for it will be in your power to make a right use of it, and this no one can hinder.

There are two things that must be rooted out in human beings - arrogant opinion and mistrust. Arrogant opinion expects that there is nothing further needed, and mistrust assumes that under the torrent of circumstance there can be no happiness.

None of these things are foretold to me; but either to my paltry body, or property, or reputation, or children, or wife. But to me all omens are lucky, if I will. For whichever of these things happens, it is in my control to derive advantage from it.

It isn't events themselves that disturb people, but only their judgments about them.

End the habit of despising things that are not within your power, and apply your aversion to things that are within your power.

First say to yourself what you would be;and then do what you have to do.

When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it; you can either accept it or resent it.

Show me one who is sick and yet happy, in peril and yet happy, dying and yet happy, in exile and happy, in disgrace and happy. Show him me. By the gods I would fain see a Stoic. Nay you cannot show me a finished Stoic; then show me one in the moulding, one who has set his feet on the path

People feel disturbed not by things, but by the views they take of them.

Taking account of the value of externals, you see, comes at some cost to the value of one's own character.

Men are disturbed, not by things, but by the principles and notions

It is not things that trouble us, but our judgements about things.

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

We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them.