Quotes About Mindset

Most people crumble when squeezed, but the champion feeds off it. If I had to pick just one great trait to have in the wild, it would be this: calm in the storm. Develop this trait, even if you don't feel it naturally applies to you. Embrace the dramas whenever you can - in order to practise! Tell yourself: 'I am good in the crisis, I am calm in the storm.' Tell yourself this until it becomes your reality.

You can't always choose your situation, but you can always choose your attitude.

I have never minded risking failure, because I was never punished for failing.

Trying often comes before failure. Endeavour more often leads to success. But they are just words, I hear you say. Why does it matter whether we say 'try' or 'endeavour'? It matters, believe me. Our words become our attitudes and our attitudes become our life.

Profound changes in the way we think and act must take place if we are to create a loving culture.

Hopelessness generates inactivity.

Because we have learned to believe negativity is more realistic, it appears more real than any positive voice. Once we begin to replace negative thinking with positive thinking, it becomes utterly clear that, far from being realistic, negative thinking is absolutely disenabling.

I had a mother who would never allow herself to be a victim no matter what happened… Never made excuses, and she never accepted an excuse from us. And if we ever came up with an excuse, she always said, Do you have a brain? And if the answer was yes, then she said, Then you could have thought your way out of it.

Remaining a victim of circumstance is a state of being that we choose, a choice that — allows us to blame other people — lets us blame circumstances — permits us to avoid responsibility for our lives — encourages us to feel sorry for ourselves, and — guarantees that we will stay victims. No one has to be a victim!

If you want to be relevant only in your household, then you only need to know the things that are important in your house, and if you want to be relevant in your neighborhood, you need to know what's important in your neighborhood. The same thing applies to your city, state, and country. And if you want to be relevant to the entire world, program that computer known as your brain with all kinds of information from everywhere in order to prepare yourself.

We all have choices in the way we react to the words we hear. Our lives and the lives of all those around us will be significantly improved if we choose to react positively rather than negatively.

an individual must believe in himself and in his abilities. To do his best, one needs a confidence that says, "I can do anything, and if I can't do it, I know how to get help.

The important point here is that I had the same brain when I was still at the bottom of the class as I had when I reached the top of the class.

Never consider the bigger picture, because if you do you'll just give up. If you're hanging on a precipice, there's no point worrying that the precipice is in a desert five days from water. Just get out of the precipice, then worry about the water.

Do you ever wake up in the morning and ask yourself ''Do I want to be amazing today?

The bigger you feel things, the more curious you are; and the more problems you want to solve and not actually run from, the better everything is, even the things you already love.

I turned my face to the sky and laughed because the things you enjoy can't hurt you.

With every new wave of optimism or pessimism, we are ready to abandon history and time-tested principles, but we cling tenaciously and unquestioningly to our prejudices.    

The best way to measure your investing success is not by whether you're beating the market but by whether you've put in place a financial plan and a behavioral discipline that are likely to get you where you want to go. In the end, what matters isn't crossing the finish line before anybody else but just making sure that you do cross it.8

intelligence has nothing to do with IQ or SAT scores. It simply means being patient, disciplined, and eager to learn;

The fault, dear investor, is not in our stars- and no in our stocks- but in ourselves...

the readers to buy their stocks as they bought their groceries, not as they bought their perfume

Never mingle your speculative and investment operations in the same account, nor in any part of your thinking.

Blessed is he who expecteth nothing, for he shall not be disappointed." Chesterton's rejoinder? "Blessed is he who expecteth nothing, for he shall enjoy everything.