Mindset Quotes

Difficulties seldom defeat people; lack of faith in themselves usually does it.

Meet your failure nobly, and it will not differ from success.

There are seldom, if ever, any hopeless situations, but there are many people who lose hope in the face of some situations.

Effective people are not problem minded; they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems. They think preventively.

To become a champion requires a good mental attitude toward preparation. You have to accept the most tedious task with pleasure.

Sometimes when you've had a long series of disappointing things happen, you can get into the very bad habit of just expecting more of what you've already had.

If your thought is a rose, you are a rose garden; and if it is a thistle, you are fuel for the fire.

Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure.

If you're strong enough on the inside, you can handle anything that comes at you on the outside.

When danger is far off we may think of our weakness; when it is near we must not forget our strength.

Belief in limits creates limited people

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Look forward to where you want to be and spend no time complaining about where you are.

Sure, it's easy to be upbeat when everything is going your way. Anyone can do that. It is far more important, however, to take a positive approach in circumstances that most people would view as negative.

Acceptance means no complaining, and happiness means no complaining about the things over which you can do nothing.

Your mental attitude attracts to you everything that makes you what you are.

Why dost thou not pray... to give thee the faculty of not fearing any of the things which thou fearest, or of not desiring any of the things which thou desirest, or not being pained at anything, rather than pray that any of these things should not happen or happen?

All it takes is a simple choice, a simple decision: no matter what happens, I will create no more pain for myself. I will create no more problems.

Our beliefs are like the unquestioned commands, telling us how things are, what's possible and what's impossible, what we can and can not do.

If the truth is told, things are just as bad as you yourself care to make them.

Commitment comes as a result of choice, not conditions.

Difficult is a far cry from impossible. The distance between these two lies hope. Hope and fear cannot occupy the same space at the same time. Invite one to stay.

The secret of the master mind is found wholly in the use of imagination.

The first thing a great person does is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.

Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.

Consider nothing impossible, then treat possiblities as probabilities.

A bad attitude is the only true handicap.

If you believe you are right, or you believe you are wrong, you're right. Whenever you are certain about it, you will support it. Remember that.

To me, good health is more than just exercise and diet. Its really a point of view and a mental attitude you have about yourself.

The "I've tried everything" story ensures failure. You must create an empowering story that recognizes that everyone has failed a lot but successful people have found a way to rebound until they succeed.

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.

Your first encounter of the day has a more direct bearing on your attitude for that day than your next five encounters.

Whatever you focus on is what you get.

You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.

Nothing in life has any meaning except the meaning you give it.

The unhappy person is never present to themself because they always live in the past or the future.

I'm always loading my brain with new ways of looking at something.

My teacher Jim Rohn taught me a simple principle: every day, stand guard at the door of your mind, and you alone decide what thoughts and beliefs you let into your life. For they will shape whether you feel rich or poor, cursed or blessed.

Our attitude at the beginning of a task will affect its outcome more than anything else.

If you keep your mind active, regularly take on mental challenges, and continually think about the right things, you will develop the disciplined thinking that will help you with whatever you endeavor to do.

No man is ever whipped until he quits - in his own mind.

It belongs to small-mindedness to be unable to bear either honor or dishonor, either good fortune or bad, but to be filled with conceit when honored and puffed up by trifling good fortune, and to be unable to bear even the smallest dishonor and to deem any chance failure a great misfortune, and to be distressed and annonyed at everything. Moreover the small-minded man is the sort of person to call all slights an insult and dishonor, even those that are due to ignorance or forgetfulness. Small-mindedness is accompanied by pettiness, querulousness, pessimism and self-abasement.

Focus on the solution, not on the problem.

10% of life is made up of what happens to you. 90% of life is decided by how you react.

You're never beaten until you admit it

Our attitude is the primary force that will determine whether we succeed or fail.

A bad war is fought with a good mind.

I'm scared every time I go into the ring, but it's how you handle it. What you have to do is plant your feet, bite down on your mouthpiece and say, 'Let's go.'

As a man thinketh in his heart, so shall he be

Attitude is your thought life turned inside out

Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions.

The birth of excellence begins with our awareness that our beliefs are a choice. We usually don't think of it that way, but belief can be a conscious choice. You can choose beliefs that limit you, or you can choose beliefs that support you. The trick is to choose the beliefs that are conducive to success and the results you want and to discard the ones that hold you back.

Do not be tense, just be ready, not thinking but not dreaming, not being set but being flexible.

Focus like a laser, not a flashlight

A strong mind is one of the key components that separates the great from the good.

'Why me?' rarely produces a positive result, while 'How can I use this?' usually leads us in the direction of turning our difficulties into a driving force to make ourselves and the world better.

The enemies inside us: Indifference, Indecision, Doubt, Worry, and Over-caution.

That which you think today becomes that which you are tomorrow.

Losers focus on what they are going through; winners focus on what they are going to.

The message is clear. It is not what is happening 'out there.' It is what is happening between your ears. It's your attitude that counts.