Quotes About Mindset

If you're not happy before you're successful, you're going to be miserable when you do become successful because all your problems just get magnified.

I think it's dangerous to think that you're successful, because then you become complacent.

You will find that the more successful the individual, the less inclined he is to make excuses.

Truly successful people don't rise to the top by acting tough; they become better by growing stronger.

We're all self-made, but only successful people admit it.

Successful people often exude confidence - it's obvious that they believe in themselves and what they're doing. It isn't their success that makes them confident, however. The confidence was there first.

I think we all want to successfully push back the aging process, to deny the aging process. Who among us says, 'Yippee, I'm getting older'?

I don't succumb to the pressure of expectations. I try to convert it into excitement.

I don't deal with writer's block, I don't allow myself to believe that there is such a thing. I think that there are good days and a lot more less good days.

There's such a thing as good stress and bad stress. Bad stress is when somebody else stresses you out, and good stress is when you stress yourself out over something you want to accomplish, which makes you want to perfect it.

I try, in the present, to not exalt the past because I think that's such a way of diminishing the present. And it's hard to live like that.

I was very lucky. My parents raised me in such a way that it never occurred to me that I wasn't equal.

You're not just top-10 UFC because you suck.

People always want to grab the negative, but that's not my reality. It comes from my dad. He cracks me up the way he always says, 'Suck it up and be a big girl,' to my sister, or 'Suck it up and be a man,' to us guys. That's what I'm about.

It's so easy to get the joy sucked out of you.

It's a pretty heavy thing that happens to me when I'm at competitions. I get so sucked in, I can't really turn it off.

Getting or not getting the job isn't an indicator of your abilities. You're going to get jobs when you think you sucked, and you're not going to get jobs when you think you rocked.

Negativity just sucks the life out of somebody.

We are always manifesting. Each thought we have creates an energy flow within and around our physical being. This energy attracts its likeness. So if you're thinking, 'I suck,' then your energy kinda, well, sucks - and you attract sucky experiences.

If you hang out with a bunch of sad sacks who think the world sucks and there's no possibility, you'll start to believe that. But if you hang out with people who think everything is possible and actually do the impossible on a regular basis, you will believe that, and you will be able to achieve that.

Sometimes, I have to beat myself first in order to beat the other guy. And that sucks. I'm not gonna lie. But that's me.

You've got to want to play defence. Nobody really wants to play defence. It's boring. It sucks. You don't get the flashiness, the scores, the dunks. But you've got to have it.

I hate the fact that, all of a sudden now, it's not cool to go to the Gator Bowl. Are you kidding me? I don't like that mindset.

It's amazing, the mentality shift that occurs in pregnancy. All of a sudden you want to be good to yourself.