Quotes About Mindset

You must never assume or accept blame for being alive.

Don't take life as a ADVANTAGE take it SERIOUSLY because it's not a game)

We've got to think positive thoughts.

If you're reading these words, perhaps it's because something has kicked open the door for you, and you're ready to embrace change. It isn't enough to appreciate change from afar, or only in the abstract, or as something that can happen to other people but not to you. We need to create change for ourselves, in a workable way, as part of our everyday lives.

You must welcome bounty whenever it comes, hunti man. It is often inconvenient. But if you insist on accepting it only when it suits your schedule, you will find yourself very poor.

Only by underrating yourself can you keep on improve

Only by underrating yourself will you find the will to improve

the biggest obstacle I had to overcome that day was not the aura of Pipeline, the coral reef, or the local crew. It was myself. As soon as I convinced myself that I belonged, nothing could stop me.

If you do a trick and it doesn't work out, that can stick with you. I like to go back, nail the trick, and, 'OK, I'm cool, it's all good.'

Protecting what we have makes us stingy and closed. When we don't have much or hold what we have loosely, we discover the self-perpetuating joy of being content—and generous—with very little.

our thinking leads our feelings (not the other way around)...

We can't buy into the lie that we are powerless over our feelings.

[It's] the lens through which your brain views the world that shapes your reality. And if we can change the lens, not only can we change your happiness, we can change every single educational and business outcome at the same time.

If we study what is merely average, we will remain merely average.

I'm not a businessman. I'm a business, man.

A leader with a growth mindset believes that:   Skills come from hard work and can always be improved.   Human potential is unlimited.   Effort is required to expand knowledge and accomplish goals.   Challenges are growth opportunities.   Feedback from the team and peers is necessary for your growth.   Setbacks should be anticipated and used to help make decisions in the future; one should be adaptable to change.15

In particularly trying times, Crosby would look to a handful of motivational sayings and poems he had collected over the years. They helped him focus his goals. Some of them hung on his bedroom wall at the Lemieux house, given to him by family and close friends. He modelled himself after his favourite, from Paul "Bear" Bryant: It's not the will to win that matters, everyone has that. It's the will to prepare to win that matters.

Your self-esteem is a double-edged sword. It all depends on the 'self' of self-esteem whether it'll pull you up from the nadir or push you down from the pinnacle.

For there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it

How many slams in an old screen door? Depends how loud you shut it. How many slices in a bread? Depends how thin you cut it. How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live 'em. How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give 'em.

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It's amazing how otherwise rational people can turn into jerks when emotions run amok.

Do you feel bad enough now to make some changes or would you rather wait until you feel even worse?

By deleting, distorting and generalizing, we inhabit our perceptions and interpretations of Reality