Quotes About Mindset

What a pleasant life she might have if only she chose! I don' envy her much, in spite of her money, for after all rich people have about as many worries as poor ones, I think.

Rechazar todos los regalos que nos brinda la vida porque no nos da el que queremos es una mezquindad.

She 's to be strong-minded, is she?'–and Fanny's lip curled a little as she uttered the misused words[...]'Yes, strong-minded, strong-hearted, strong-souled, and strong-bodied; that is why I made her larger than the miserable, pinched-up woman of our day. Strength and beauty must go together. Don't you think these broad shoulders can bear burdens without breaking down, these hands work well, these eyes see clearly, and these lips do something besides simper and gossip?

Asema. You're forgetting. A people who see themselves primarily as victims are doomed. And we're not doomed, are we?

You're forgetting. A people who see themselves primarily as victims are doomed. And we're not doomed, are we?

Like Rockefeller, he advocated self-discipline and deferred gratification.

Hamilton believed that revolutions ended in tyranny because they glorified revolution as a permanent state of mind. A spirit of compromise and a concern with order were needed to balance the quest for liberty.

His similarity to his father in thought and outlook is almost weird.

I am still determined to be cheerful and to be happy in whatever situation I may be, for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions and not upon our circumstances.

John D. Rockefeller drew strength by simplifying reality and strongly believed that excessive reflection upon unpleasant but unalterable events only weakened one's resolve in the face of enemies.

When playing checkers or chess, he showed exceptional caution, studying each move at length, working out every possible countermove in his head. "I'll move just as soon as I get it figured out," he told opponents who tried to rush him. "You don't think I'm playing to get beaten, do you?"12 To ensure that he won, he submitted to games only where he could dictate the rules.

Paranoia is sometimes the best way a person can handle situations in life.

Tal vez las rutinas nos cieguen y sólo veamos lo que creemos que debemos ver.

You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you've tried.

As always, when faced with a dilemma, he planned to by by his own set of rules. Act positively, plan negatively, expect nothing.

To cheer herself up, Elfrida looked ahead, in positive fashion, which she had always found a reliable method of dealing with a sense of loss.

We do not stop playing because we are old We are old because we stop playing.

The point is, we're all changing all the time. You once found it hard to tie a shoelace and now you don't even have to look. The change is so subtle; you think that whatever you feel like right now is how you always felt. Our brain can trick us into thinking life stands still. In the end this causes the human race the most heartache. Blinkered

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Now India is a place beyond all others where one must not take things too seriously—the midday sun always excepted.

If you can think–and not make thoughts your aim.

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master; If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same;

Now, don't be angry after you've been afraid. That's the worst kind of cowardice

Al éxito y al fracaso, esos dos impostores, trátalos siempre con la misma indiferencia