Quotes About Mindset

Since I'm a highly self-critical person, I try to become better every day. I don't see the point of competing with anyone.

I hate personal competition, and so each time in my career I came in a field where it was highly competitive, I gave up.

I get quite stroppy if I lose - but I've developed skills with a mind coach to help deal with the highs and lows of tennis at this level.

Once I lose focus that's when I'm going to go tumbling down the hill.

I haven't gone hillbilly rich, where you spend everything you have.

He who can believe himself well, will be well.

Do or do not, there is no try.

No," Yoda said impatiently. "Try not. Do, do. Or do not. There is no try." Luke closed his eyes. He tried to envision the contours

Do. Or do not. There is no try. -Yoda

People are so ready to think themselves changed when it is only their mood that is changed. Those who are good-tempered because it is a fine day will be ill-tempered when it rains: their selves are just the same both days; only in one case the fine weather has got into them, in the other the rainy.

There are thousands willing to do great things for one willing to do a small thing.

There is endless room for rebellion against ourselves.

That which is within a man, not that which lies beyond his vision, is the main factor in what is about to befall him:

35]              Caelum non animum mutant The man who is not content where he is, would never have been content somewhere else, though he might have complained less. Donal Grant, ch. 31

All a man has to do, is to better what he can. And if he will settle it with himself, that even renown and success are in themselves of no great value, and be content to be defeated, if so be that the fault is not his; and so go to his work with a cool brain and a strong will, he will get it done; and fare none the worse in the end, that he was not burdened with provision and precaution.

People are so ready to think themselves changed when it is only their mood that is changed.

She was too much occupied with obedience to trouble her head about opinion, either her own or other people's.

People are so ready to think themselves change when it is only their mood that is changed! Those who are good-tempered because it is a fine day, will be ill-tempered when it rains: their selves are just the same both days; only in one case , the fine weather has got them, in the other the rainy.

I am certain that he both thought and worked better, because he both thought and worked.

No one who wants to enjoy a walk in the rain must carry an umbrella; it is pure folly.

Don't mess with me. Attitudes are more important than facts.

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

If you set yourself to it, you can live the same life, rich or poor. You can keep on with your books and your ideas. You just got to say to yourself, I'm a free man in here - he tapped his forehead - and you're all right.

Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry.