Quotes About Success

We like to think of our champions and idols as superheroes who were born different from us. We don't like to think of them as relatively ordinary people who made themselves extraordinary. Why not? To me that is so much more amazing.

Did I win? Did I lose? Those are the wrong questions. The correct question is: Did I make my best effort?

The top is where the fixed-mindset people hunger to be, but it's where many growth-minded people arrive as a by-product of their enthusiasm for what they do.

If you work hard at something, you get out what you put in.

For in the world of the fixed mindset, there is no way to become an Eagle. If you were a true Eagle, you would have aced the test and been hailed as an Eagle at once.

Does ability automatically take you where you want to go?

Gran parte de los que tienen mentalidad de crecimiento ni siquiera planean llegar a la cumbre; llegan a ella como resultado de hacer lo que aman. Es irónico: la cima es el lugar donde los que tienen mentalidad fija ansían estar, y sin embargo, es el lugar al que llegan –sin buscarlo– muchos de los que tienen mentalidad de crecimiento, simplemente como consecuencia del entusiasmo que sienten por lo que hacen.

Iacocca, Dunlap, Lay and Skilling, Case and Levin. They show what can happen when people with the fixed mindset are put in charge of companies. In each case, a brilliant man put his company in jeopardy because measuring himself and his legacy outweighed everything else.

understand the kind of mindset that could turn a failure into a gift.

Estas creencias pueden ser conscientes o inconscientes, pero influyen en lo que deseamos y determinan en gran parte si lo conseguimos o no.

Para os de mindset de crescimento, sucesso significava fazer o melhor possível, aprender e se aperfeiçoar.

It's ironic: The top is where the fixed-mindset people hunger to be, but it's where many growth-minded people arrive as a by-product of their enthusiasm for what they do.

Believing that success is about learning, students with the growth mindset seized the chance. But those with the fixed mindset didn't want to expose their deficiencies. Instead, to feel smart in the short run, they were willing to put their college careers at risk. This is how the fixed mindset makes people into nonlearners.

Some might attribute my transformation to the laws of heredity. … But I think it was my reward for all those hours of work on the bridle path, the neighborhood sidewalks and the schoolhouse corridors.

John Wooden, el legendario entrenador de baloncesto, dice que no eres un fracasado hasta que no empiezas a culpar

Y yo no me voy a rendir; no voy a dejar que te rindas. Si te quedas sentado apoyándote contra la pared todo el día, acabarás por apoyarte en algo o en alguien toda tu vida. Y la genialidad que hay en ti se irá a la basura.

We tell them that an ability can be learned and that the task will give them a chance to do that. Or we have them read a scientific article that teaches them the growth mindset. The article describes people who did not have natural ability, but who developed exceptional skills.

El esfuerzo es para aquellos que no tienen la capacidad. La gente con mentalidad fija nos dice: «Si tienes que trabajar mucho, será que no se te da bien», y añade: «Los verdaderos genios no necesitan esforzarse».

Un esfuerzo rico, educado y con contactos funciona mejor.

Como indica un artículo de The New York Times,32el fracaso ha pasado de ser una acción (yo fracaso) a ser una identidad (yo soy un fracasado). Esto es especialmente cierto en la mentalidad fija.

Gran parte de los que tienen mentalidad de crecimiento ni siquiera planean llegar a la cumbre; llegan a ella como resultado de hacer lo que aman.

Sometimes people with the growth mindset stretch themselves so far that they do the impossible.

Por qué es tan aterrador el esfuerzo? Hay dos razones. Una es que en la mentalidad fija se supone que los grandes genios no lo necesitan,

Es irónico: la cima es el lugar donde los que tienen mentalidad fija ansían estar, y sin embargo, es el lugar al que llegan –sin buscarlo– muchos de los que tienen mentalidad de crecimiento, simplemente como consecuencia del entusiasmo que sienten por lo que hacen.