Quotes About Mindset

Luthiel: I cannot change what will happen. I can only change how I act in the face of it.

Wars are won in the will.

A man had to close his eyes to remain an optimist, and there was no honor in that.

Getting older... mostly it entails accepting the unacceptable.

There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."

The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.

Many an optimist has become rich by buying out a pessimist.

Buffett quoted Keynes: "The difficulty lies not in the new ideas but in escaping from the old ones." Buffett

Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.

Belief is not a voluntary thing. A man believes or disbelieves in spite of himself.

Mental slavery is mental death, and every man who has given up his intellectual freedom is the living coffin of his dead soul.

He drank as though his beer was medicine, without pleasure, intent on the result.

She remembers how she 'wanted only to see the good' and the rest she 'simply shoved aside'.

I heard this old country guy say once, "I think you decide pretty early on how happy you're going to be, and then you just go on and be it." But I don't think that's the case for a lot of people. For a lot of people, for a lot of the people I met in the bin, I think personal choice has very little to do with it.

You always give credit where credit is due - to high school coaches, college coaches - but my dad, the foundation that he built with me, is where all of this came from. The speed, the determination, the mindset, just the natural belief that you can do anything you put your mind to, it all comes from my dad.

It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.

Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.

The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.

Problems are never real problems unless they cause you to take your eye off your goals. When a negative reaction threatens you, look over and beyond the problem.

Aspirations can cure headaches

There are some who start their retirement long before they stop working.

Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.

And people would believe it, thought Hartmann, because people believed what they wanted to believe – that was Goebbels's great insight. They no longer had any need to bother themselves with inconvenient truths. He had given them an excuse not to think.

The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.