Quotes About Mindset

Get comfortable with being uncomfortable!

It's not about perfect. It's about effort. And when you bring that effort every single day, that's where transformation happens. That's how change occurs.

Part of abandoning the all-or-nothing mentality is allowing yourself room for setbacks. We are bound to have lapses on the road to health and wellness, but it is critical that we learn how to handle small failures positively so that we can minimize their long-term destructive effects. One setback is one setback—it is not the end of the world, nor is it the end of your journey toward a better you.

The past does not define, you the present does.

Will is a skill.

At some point you have to stop acting as though life is happening to you and acknowledge the ways you are happening to it. Once you take responsibility for your side of the street, you grant yourself the power to improve every aspect of your life by simply acting and behaving differently.

Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.

Wrong thinking leads to wrong emotions—discouragement and despair—and wrong thinking consequently leads to giving up.

The author emphasizes the importance of self-forgetfulness when his statistics were marred by a bad outing. He forgot all of that outing to such an extent that he quipped, "What was my name?

None of us live happily forever after. But we can choose to be happy today.

you're scorekeeping, and scorekeeping means you're thinking about results over which you have no real control.

Winning isn't everything, but the will to prepare to win is everything.

Your ability to blank slate is directly related to your ability to rid yourself of expectations and assumptions, two very bad words in my system of negotiation.

Stop Trying to Control the Outcome Focus on Your Behavior and Actions Instead

My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh.

You are ready and able to do beautiful things in this world, and as you walk through those doors today, you will only have two choices: love or fear. Choose love, and don't ever let fear turn you against your playful heart.

Life doesn't happen to you. It happens for you.

You are ready and able to do beautiful things in this world and after you walk through those doors...you'll only really ever have two choices: love or fear. Choose love. And don't ever let fear turn you against your playful heart.

when things are really bad the only thing to do is laugh

Nurture your nature.

Think like the person you intend to become.

Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline.

Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice.

What separates people is not the presence or absence of difficulty, but how they deal with the inevitable difficulties of life.