Quotes About Mindset

it's not what happens to you, but how you handle what happens that makes a difference.

When it comes to making money, said Barbara Blair, one of my interviewees, "attitude is everything." And that holds truest when life is toughest.

But if we focus on the barriers, we're more likely to encounter them. We achieve what we focus on.

Just saying I'm prosperous makes my shoulders go up a little straighter.

Pessimism is a primary source of passivity,

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

The dog has an enviable mind; it remembers the nice things in life and quickly blots out the nasty.

The world is what you believe it is," was the only reply I could make to her. If you think in the back of your mind, "I don't deserve this," then it won't work. And, if on top of that, you are afraid of "bills," or even "punishment," then you will create exactly that yourself. Because, "the world is what you believe it is!

You've got to be responsible for your own happiness -- you can't expect it to come flopping through the door like a parcel.

Ballplayers do not argue with the umpire so that he'll change the decision in question. They want to be on his mind when he makes the next one.

When you focus on the problems, you get more of the same. What you focus on you create.

Principle I: We Are Either Now Here or Nowhere

just remember that doing anything that begins to shift the pattern and lessen the gravity of suffering or frustration is a breakthrough.

I faked PMS. I even added an extra day for the heck of it.

Frederick Catherwood rightly says "The teaching ofthe bible would appear to be that it is not the amount of a man's wealth which matters. What matters is the method by which he acquires it, how he uses it, and his attitude of mind toward it.

It was like playing checkers, only to learn that your opponent was playing chess all along.

All I have to do is wake up in the morning and go to bed at night, Jazz. Everything else is optional.

It's amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive.

Sometimes, being optimistic is the only thing you can do in the moment.

The secret to happiness is low expectations.

The alternative to maximizing is to be a satisficer. To satisfice is to settle for something that is good enough and not worry about the possibility that there might be something better.

Happiness as a goal is a recipe for disaster.

What we don't realize is that the very option of being allowed to change our minds seems to increase the chances that we will change our minds.

What you can control are your attitudes about the things in your life. And so it is your inner self, your attitudes, that you should be concerned about.