Quotes About Mindset

That what each of us calls our 'necessary expenses' will always grow to equal our incomes unless we protest to the contrary.

los gastos que llamamos obligatorios siempre crecen en proporción a nuestros ingresos si no hacemos algo para evitarlo.

I learned that to attract good luck to oneself, it is necessary to take advantage of opportunities.

My sons think only of spending and give no thought to earning. My

So must every man master his own spirit of procrastination before he can expect to share in the rich treasures of Babylon.

Our acts can be no wiser than our thoughts. Our thoughts can be no wiser than our understanding.

what each of us calls our 'necessary expenses' will always grow to equal our incomes unless we protest to the contrary.

I do see good luck in a different light. I had thought of it as something most desirable that might happen to a man without effort upon his part. Now, I do realize such happenings are not the sort of thing one may attract to himself. From our discussion have I learned that to attract good luck to oneself, it is necessary to take advantage of opportunities. Therefore, in the future, I shall endeavor to make the best of such opportunities as do come to me.

if I were permitted to be well fed and not worried, that alone would enable me to pay faster.

the soul of a free man looks at life as a series of problems to be solved and solves them, while the soul of a slave whines, 'What can I do who am but a slave?

That what each of us calls our 'necessary expenses' will always grow to equal our incomes unless we protest to the contrary.

To be interested in the changing seasons is . . . a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

There is no world save the one we make with our minds, and the mind's predisposition determines the type of world we see.

Although certainly, dwelling on problems doesn't solve them. Although on the other hand, thinking positively about problems also doesn't solve them. But at least then you feel positive, which is, or should be, you know, empowering.

The world, I started to see, was a different world, depending on what you said about it, and how you said it. By honing the sentences you used to describe the world, you changed the inflection of your mind, which changed your perceptions.

He has access to limited outrage. Sooner than we expect him to, he accepts his terrifying new state and goes on living, sad, peeved, but not rebellious; that would be impolite.

I am an intellectual. This does not mean I am intelligent, but that ideas are more important to me than people.

We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely...change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now.

There are those of us who are always about to live. We are waiting until things change, until there is more time, until we are less tired, until we get a promotion, until we settle down / until, until, until. It always seems as if there is some major event that must occur in our lives before we begin living.

The lessons his mother had instilled had taken hold: Do your best. Don't be arrogant. Never complain.

A bad war is fought with a good mind.

It seemed to Kitty a pity that her new friend's mind was set so irrevocably upon marriage, but her suggestion that Olivia might seek an eligible situation as a governess met with no favour at all. Olivia stared at her with dismay in her big eyes, and unequivocally stated her preference for death.

Don't worry. Chivalry has practically no appeal for me whatsoever. -- Neville Fletcher

You can be right or you can be happy.