Quotes About Mindset

Who ever said, 'It's not whether you win or lose that counts,' probably lost.

Whoever said, It's not whether you win or lose that counts, probably lost.

Whoever said 'It's not whether you win or lose that counts' probably lost.

Our negative ceasing to possess must be accompanied by a positive choosing to be generous.

But there's a big difference between "impossible" and "hard to imagine." The first is about it; the second is about you!

The beach house is a state of mind more than a place.

That's all any of us can do, my dear. We wake up, bolster our resolve, and rise to face the new day. Or else lie in bed and waste our lives.

Negativity could be frighteningly contagious.

There is no such thing as time. There is only our reaction to the inexorable progress of life.

Sometimes, self-pity was so ingrained in people that nothing could persuade them to take joy out of living.

If she allowed herself to wallow in self-pity, she would be in danger of becoming one of those habitual moaners and complainers everyone avoided.

It is the human condition. No one escapes, even those who may appear to others to live charmed lives. But we all have the choice of whether to be defined by the negatives in our lives or to make of our present and future and our very selves what we want them to be.

If you want something, my dearest love, the duke had once told her, you will never get it. Want is a timid, abject word. It implies that you know you will be left wanting, that you know you do not deserve the object of your desire but can only hope for a miracle. You must expect that object instead, and it will be yours. There is no such thing as a miracle.

But why always think the worst of people? What would she be doing to herself if she adopted that attitude to life? It was better to think the best and be wrong than to think the worst and be wrong.

a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it.

To a great mind, nothing is little

Only when she sits before her mirror to apply her makeup with care does she become a geisha. And I don't mean that this is when she begins to look like one. This is when she begins to think like one too.

Eu nunca procuro derrotar o homem que estou a combater - explicou ele - procuro derrotar a confiança que ele tem em si próprio. Uma mente perturbada pela dúvida não se pode concentrar no curso em direcção a vitória. Dois homens são iguais, verdadeiramente iguais, só quando têm ambos uma autoconfiança igual

No intento vencer al hombre con el que estoy enfrentado-explicó-. Intento vencer su confianza. Una mente empañada por la duda no puede enfocar claramente el camino a la victoria. Dos hombres son iguales -verdaderamente iguales- solo cuando tienen el mismo grado de confianza en ellos Yamamoto Isoroku

Ako uvijek imaš na umu svoju sudbinu, na svaki ?eš trenutak u životu gledati kao na priliku da se malo više približiš svome cilju.

The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.

Ordinary people merely think how they shall 'spend' their time; a man of talent tries to 'use' it.

Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.

There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.