Quotes About Mindset

The rush of adrenaline I used to get when someone told me I could stay up past my bedtime has since been replaced with the wave of euphoria I feel whenever I realize I can go to sleep before 9:00 p.m.

From our simplest habits to our most destructive behaviors, our actions are the direct results of our mental programming. Both psychologists and biblical scholars agree that it is almost impossible for individuals to behave inconsistently with what they believe about themselves. Your mind will naturally go in the direction of your most prevalent thoughts.

If you don't like who you are, don't just change your behavior—change your thoughts.

Most of us have heard that it takes 21 days to change a habit. Unfortunately, many experts now believe that it takes 21 days for any change to begin to take place.

Change works only when people believe it is happening for them, not to them.

Make it a good day.

Working on ourselves is very important, but it's also important that we don't get so caught up in analyzing ourselves that we become the one thing standing in our own way.

Belief is just the place of understanding you are at the moment. Without an open mind, you will be standing in that one spot forever.

You dont allways chose what happens to you, but only you can allways chose your attitude. Attitude is your ultimate life tool, sharpen it because you will need it.

Si on attend tout de lui, on se contente finalement de peu. La moindre surprise est accueillie comme un miracle.

She is beginning to understand that completion is not so much about reaching perfection as it is making the choice to look away from the material. What was it Khalil used to say when she couldn't finish a paper in college? Be a completionist, not a perfectionist.

Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

Since Jesus went through everything you're going through and more, learn to think like him. Think of your sufferings as a weaning from that old sinful habit of always expecting to get your own way. Then you'll be able to live out your days free to pursue what God wants instead of being tyrannized by what you want. 1 Peter 4:1–2, THE MESSAGE

Not every circumstance feels good. But we can always determine to be joyful. Yes, oftentimes joy is a choice, an act of the will. That's why grumbling and complaining is so dangerous. Negative thoughts and words take us down a path to where everything feels impossible, too hard, unfair. But positive words and thoughts—as an act of the will and as an expression of our salvation—lead us to joy. Joy

Is it any wonder why church is so important? Some think they can live the Christian life without a strong local fellowship, but I'm not one of them. I know how important it is for me to unite with others to fix my mind on what is right, pure, lovely, and admirable—to think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise. What's on your mind? Is it excellent?

In any field, it's the relaxed interviewee who gets the job.

One thing about pessimism is that it feels sane. Pessimists are those who can't be taken in, people who can't be fooled. I told you so. But it is also a habit of mind. It reconciles us to being powerless. It justifies detachment, indifference. It is even fear of having power....

That's the part of it I [Sam Spade] always liked. He [Flitcraft] adjusted himself to beams falling, and then no more of them fell, and he adjusted himself to their not falling.

Many years ago I resolved never to bother with New Year's resolutions, and I've stuck with it ever since.

pessimists live longer! Good news is much easier to believe than bad.

Después de todo, está bien tener dinero mientras el dinero no le tenga a usted.

I will not wait to love as best as I can. We thought we were young and that there would be time to love well sometime in the future. This is a terrible way to think. It is no way to live, to wait to love.

Epictetus, stated it well when he wrote, "It is not the thing itself, but the view we take of it which distresses us.

Whatever is drilled in during training comes out the other end in combat.