Quotes About Mindset

I am convinced after more than 50 years in the field of motivation that anyone who wants to learn to look at life and/or their circumstances in a positive light can do so.

I think life is far too short to concentrate on your past. I rather look into the future.

You are the grim, goal-oriented ones who will not believe that the joy is in the journey rather than the destination no matter how many times it has been proven to you.

If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you'll die a lot of times.

Our actions, habits, character, and future are most definitely affected by our thoughts.

I think if you just look at life in a positive way, positive things will happen.

We cannot always control or avoid what happens to us, but we can control what it does to our spirit.

Negative self-criticism is an iron chain that will never let you ascend to real greatness.

Happiness does not rely on what you have or who you are. It relies on what you think.

We cannot always control or avoid what happens to us, but we can control what it does to our spirit. And the quality of our spirit becomes the filter through which we see life. And as the philosophers say, reality is our perception of it. I believe those words. Our reality is what we believe it to be. What we believe informs our thoughts. Our thoughts inform our actions. Our actions build our lives.

I was so lucky to be raised believing in some part of myself—believing that if I put my mind to something, I should be able to figure it out.

It is better to laugh about your problems than to cry about them.

As he thinks in his heart, so he is.

She has the gift of accepting her life.

Tradition, long conditioned thinking, can bring about a fixation, a concept that one readily accepts, perhaps not with a great deal of thought.

Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

I may not be in total control of what happens in my life, but I certainly am in charge of how I choose to perceive my experience.

For many of us, once we have made a decision, then we are attached to that decision forever. I have found that often the last thing a really dominating left hemisphere wants is to share its limited cranial space with an open-minded right counterpart!

Rich old people are more attractive than poor old people, so by all means, try to get rich before age sets in. Otherwise, you'll just be playing catch-up for the rest of your life and that will just wear you out, let me tell you.

In a study of new hire agents at MetLife, the optimists outsold the pessimists by 31 percent.

All the top sellers I know possess a unique balance of positivity and negativity. They're always optimistic about the ultimate outcomes, but they sometimes seem paranoid about everything that could possibly go wrong. That's why they succeed.

Don't take life too seriously. After all none of us are getting out alive anyway.

Sometimes you have to say, 'Today's just not my day.

We all have to work for happiness. And you cannot listen to other people. That is the worst mistake you can make.