Quotes About Mindset

The only differnce between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.

What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.

He who demands little gets it.

Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.

Change your mind and consciousness from lack to abundance, and wealth will naturally follow. You will not have to seek it out. It will come to you. This is the promise of being established in nonstealing.

It is not primarily our physical selves that limit us but rather our mindset about our physical limits.

Mindfulness can encourage creativity when the focus is on the process and not the product.

If something is presented as an accepted truth, alternative ways of thinking do not even come up for consideration.

Our life is what our thoughts make it. —Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

Psychologists Michael Scheier and Charles Carver found a correlation between optimism and recovery from coronary artery bypass surgery.15 Others have studied how attitudes affect recovery and found that this improvement is not a function of a patient's tendency to deny that he was ill.

It may be in our best interest to proceed as though these and other abilities might be improved upon, so that at least we will not be deterred by false limits.

As soon as we agree to accept a positive evaluation as reason to feel good about ourselves, however, we open the door for the damaging consequences of perceived failure.

It was his way of gaining some control when life got stormy. He couldn't will the rain clouds from the horizon, but he could control how he would react to them.

Quality … has to do with intention.

We choose our attitudes. When we let little things annoy us, we even choose to be grumpy.

your present is your future.' I choose not to tarnish what may come.

That was just the mindset of the times: that happiness was somehow less important than keeping up appearances.

the mindset of the times: that happiness was somehow less important than keeping up appearances.

I'm not sure that it's safe to be happy. You see, I thought for years that I was happy and then it all vanished. So now I think I'd rather take happiness in small doses, seize them when they come and not try to hang on to them. I'm contented. . . . Contented is safer than happy; there's not as far to fall.

Oh, I used to be disgusted, but now I try to be amused.

Well, I used to be disgusted. Now I try to be amused.

I used to be disgusted, now I try to be amused...

When things go bad, don't go with them.

When things go wrong don't go with them.