Mindset Quotes
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“A lion doesn't concern himself with the opinion of sheep.”
“The ancestor of every action is thought.”
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
“Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.”
“To think accurately you must separate facts from mere information, and then important facts from the unimportant.”
“The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.”
“Think for yourself and question everything.”
“The reality of life is that your perceptions - right or wrong - influence everything else you do...”
“Don't be a cog in someone else's machine”
“The man who follows the crowd, will never be followed by a crowd.”
“Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.”
“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.”
“Thinking is the hardest work in the world for those who have not formed the habit, but thinking can give pleasure and excitement.”
“When you live for others' opinions, you are dead”
“You must begin to think of yourself as becoming the person you want to be.”
“People only see what they are prepared to see.”
“Stay upbeat by knowing that what you want is on the way. You know something others don't.”
“Never make permanent decisions on temporary feelings.”
“We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.”
“The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind.”
“Rule your mind, or it will rule you.”
“If you don't control your mind, someone else will.”
“Your ability to generate power is directly proportional to your ability to relax.”
“Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.”
“A man is literally what he thinks.”
“What screws us up the most in life is the picture in our head of how it's supposed to be.”
“As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.”
“You want to become aware of your thoughts, you want to choose your thoughts carefully and you want to have fun with this, because you are the masterpiece of your own life.”
“When the voice and vision on the inside become more profound and clear than the opinions on the outside, then you have mastered your life.”
“Every thought is a prayer.”
“If you can't change it, change your attitude.”
“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.”
“There is a criterion by which you can judge whether the thoughts you are thinking and the things you are doing are right for you. The criterion is: Have they brought you inner peace?”
“Happiness is the meaning and purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.”
“Attitude is an outer expression of an inner feeling.”
“Nurture your mind with great thoughts for you will never go higher than you think.”
“Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for, empowers you.”
“You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
“The past has no power over the present moment.”
“When we complain, our lives get worse...”
“Nothing external to you has any power over you.”
“No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.”
“Rule your mind, and you will rule your world.”
“What lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.”
“Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.”
“Heaven on Earth is a choice you must make, not a place you must find.”
“Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.”
“An affirmative thought is 100 times more powerful than a negative one.”
“A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.”
“Self-control is the result of thought control.”
“Change the way you look at things, and the things you look at will change.”
“Those who speak most of illness have illness, those who speak most of prosperity have it... etc.”
“People think about what they don't want and attract more of the same.”
“Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for power equal to your tasks.”
“Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.”
“Nothing was ever created that was not first conceived in the imagination, through desire, and transformed into reality through concentration.”
“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”
“Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.”
“Do not allow negative feelings and emotions to control your mind”
“I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.”
“You not only have the power to think, but the power to control your thoughts and direct them.”
“The best way to overcome undesirable or negative thoughts and feelings is to cultivate the positive ones.”
“Your dominant thoughts create your conditions.”
“Life is like a mirror. If you frown at it, it frowns back. If you smile at it, it returns the greeting.”
“Self-discipline begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don't control what you think, you can't control what you do...”
“Life can and should be phenomenal... and it will be when you consciously apply the Law of Attraction.”
“Success is waking up every morning and consciously deciding that today will be the best day of your life.”
“Your goals minus your doubts equal reality.”
“Be the steamroller, not the pavement. Be the hammer, not the nail.”
“You live longer once you realize that any time spent being unhappy is wasted.”
“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”
“Let peace be the umpire for any decision.”
“Children are happy because they don't have a file in their mind called 'all the things that could go wrong.'”
“Promise yourself to be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind.”
“Let a person radically alter his thoughts, and he will be astonished at the rapid transformation it will effect in the material conditions of his life.”
“Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.”
“We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.”
“You can be pitiful or powerful, but you cannot be both.”
“The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.”
“What you focus on with your thought and feeling is what you attract into your experience.”
“Are your thoughts worthy of you? If not - NOW is the time to change them...”
“Success is something you attract by the person you become.”
“Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.”
“I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.”
“Our attitude towards life determines life's attitude towards us.”
“Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.”
“The world doesn't happen to me. I happen to the world.”
“Life isn't as serious as the mind makes it out to be.”
“For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.”
“A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.”
“You have everything you need for complete peace and total happiness right now.”
“We become what we think about.”
“Change your thoughts and you change your world.”
“Thought = creation. If these thoughts are attached to powerful emotions (good or bad) that speeds the creation.”
“Never forget the three most powerful resources that you always have available to you: love, prayer and forgiveness.”
“I am no longer cursed by poverty because I took possession of my own mind...”
“Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.”
“If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.”
“To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.”
“Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.”
“Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.”
“Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian.”
“Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.”
“The basic difference between an ordinary person and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge, while an ordinary person takes everything as a blessing or a curse.”
“By choosing your thoughts, and by selecting which emotional currents you will release and which you will reinforce, you determine the quality of your Light...”
“A happy person is not a person in a set of circumstances, but rather a person with a set of attitudes.”
“Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples, don't count on harvesting golden delicious.”
“Your thoughts determine your destiny.”
“Happiness is not a destination, it's a method of life.”
“Negative or destructive thoughts are the weeds that will choke out the seed of your definite purpose.”
“The difference between a mountain and a molehill is your perspective.”
“Your success and happiness lie in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.”
“The mind is everything. What you think you become.”
“We are like magnets - like attracts like. You become AND attract what you think.”
“We are disturbed not by what happens to us, but by our thoughts about what happens to us.”
“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.”
“When mental energy is allowed to follow the line of least resistance and to fall into easy channels, it is called weakness.”
“Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.”
“Positive thought develops a dynamic personality. Negative thought develops a personality of the opposite nature.”
“If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.”
“Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more.”
“If you want to turn your life around, try thankfulness. It will change your life mightily.”
“Gratitude is more of a compliment to yourself than someone else.”
“When I started counting my blessings my whole life turned around.”
“It is impossible to feel grateful and depressed in the same moment.”
“Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasures takes joy, even as though it were his own.”
“Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.”
“Contentment is not the fulfillment of what you want, but the realization of how much you already have.”
“Be happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.”
“Whatsoever things are good, lovely, and true, these things I think upon, these thoughts I entertain in my mind. Anything else I turn from.”
“Gratitude is the attitude!”
“Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns. I am thankful that thorns have roses.”
“If a fellow isn't thankful for what he's got, he isn't likely to be thankful for what he's going to get.”
“Gratitude is a currency that we can mint for ourselves, and spend without fear of bankruptcy.”
“In life, one has a choice to take one of two paths: to wait for some special day - or to celebrate each special day.”
“God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.”
“You won't be happy with more until you're happy with what you've got.”
“Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty...”
“Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.”
“As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.”
“Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return...”
“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present.”
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
“Cause and Effect - 'Every action of giving thanks always causes an opposite reaction of receiving.'”
“Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.”
“Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance towards the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point.”
“Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.”
“The grateful mind is constantly fixated upon the best...”
“Too many people miss the silver lining, because they are expecting the gold.”
“Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.”
“If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.”
“Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone.”
“Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.”
“Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.”
“To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have.”
“Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.”
“Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.”
“Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.”
“Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.”
“What you appreciate, appreciates.”
“God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say, 'Thank you?'”
“Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.”
“Feeling gratitude and not giving it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.”
“When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.”
“The essence of life is not in the great victories and grand failures, but in the simple joys.”
“It is not joy that makes us grateful, it is gratitude that makes us joyful.”
“Be thankful for problems. If they were less difficult, someone with less ability might have your job.”
“To me, every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle.”
“Whatever we think about and thank about, we bring about.”
“He is a man of sense who does not grieve for what he has not, but rejoices in what he has.”
“There is no such thing as gratitude unexpressed. If it is unexpressed, it is plain, old-fashioned ingratitude.”
“Every one of our greatest national treasures - our liberty, enterprise, vitality, wealth, military power, global authority - flows from a surprising source: our ability to give thanks.”
“What you have once enjoyed, you cannot lose.”
“Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”
“Many people who order their lives rightly in all other ways, are kept in poverty by their lack of gratitude.”
“Gratitude is an attitude that hooks us up to our source of supply...”
“Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.”
“A thankful heart is always close to the riches of the universe.”
“There's no happier person than a truly thankful, content person.”
“The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.”
“Just remember there is someone out there that is more than happy with less than what you have.”
“Wear gratitude like a cloak, and it will feed every corner of your life.”
“Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions.”
“He who limps is still walking.”
“The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.”
“This is a wonderful day. I've never seen this one before.”
“No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.”
“The secret of having it all is loving it all.”
“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
“A prudent man will think more important what fate has conceded to him, than what it has denied.”
“One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.”
“You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.”
“If you complain, you remain. If you praise, you raise.”
“Gratitude turns what we have into enough.”
“No one who achieves success does so without the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.”
“The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!”
“We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.”
“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.”
“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.”
“Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.”
“If you count all your assets, you'll always show a profit.”
“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive.”
“Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.”
“The subconscious mind accepts and acts on all suggestions that reach it, constructive or destructive...”
“Never criticize anything.”
“Ideas increase as they are cultivated, and the brain must be exercised like any other part of the body.”
“Never act in haste or hurry. Be deliberate.”
“No strength within. No respect without.”
“Discipline is choosing between what you want now and what you want most.”
“True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline.”
“There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.”
“Motivation gets you going, but discipline keeps you growing.”
“Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.”
“No man is free who is not master of himself.”
“Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.”
“Few ever lived to old age, and fewer still ever became distinguished, who were not in the habit of early rising.”
“Discipline brings excellence. Excellence means freedom.”
“Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.”
“Without discipline, there's no life at all.”
“He is most powerful who has power over himself.”
“Suffer the pain of discipline or suffer the pain of regret.”
“We do today what they won't, so tomorrow we can do what they can't.”
“The first and best victory is to conquer self.”
“Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.”
“Will is character in action.”
“You will never always be motivated, so you must learn to be disciplined.”
“Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.”
“Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.”
“Discipline is the bridge between dreams and reality”
“Never get bored with the basics.”
“The ultimate discipline is being still.”
“You learn you can do your best even when it's hard, even when you're tired and maybe hurting a little bit. It feels good to show some courage.”
“A man without self-control is like a city broken into and left without walls.”
“Discipline yourself first or life will do it for you, and you might not like the way life does it.”
“One of the most important keys to success is having the discipline to do what you know you should do, even when you don't feel like doing it.”
“There is no great talent without great will power.”
“The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well.”
“Sometimes it is not enough to do our best; we must do what is required.”
“No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.”
“Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline.”
“Nothing is easy to the unwilling.”
“Do what you have to do until you can do what you want to do.”
“A professional is someone who does his best work even when he doesn't feel like it.”
“The ability to discipline yourself to delay gratification in the short term leads to long-term success.”
“Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.”
“No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, and disciplined.”
“Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values.”
“Sow a thought, and you reap an act. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit, and you reap a character. Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.”
“The freedom to be your best means nothing unless you are willing to do your best.”
“Men's natures are alike. It's their habits that separate them.”
“Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.”
“If we don't discipline ourselves, the world will do it for us.”
“If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.”
“Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.”
“With self-discipline most anything is possible.”
“Amateurs hope, professionals work.”
“He who lives without discipline, dies without honor.”
“Professionalism is knowing how to do it, when to do it... and doing it.”
“Habit is stronger than reason.”
“Confidence and courage come through preparation and practice.”
“The discipline you learn and character you build from setting and achieving a goal can be more valuable than the achievement of the goal itself.”
“Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.”
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.”
“Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.”
“The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.”
“The most successful people I know believe in themselves almost to the point of delusion”
“The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed.”
“I Can is 100 times more important than IQ.”
“You become what you believe.”
“In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.”
“Believe in yourself and you will do unbelievable things.”
“Believe in yourself and believe in your dreams”
“They succeed, because they think they can.”
“One's self-image is very important because if that's in good shape, then you can do anything, or practically anything.”
“You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through”
“Feed your faith and your fears will starve to death.”
“Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy.”
“You are already a success, just allow it to be expressed.”
“You have to have a strong belief in yourself and your product”
“Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.”
“You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot do.”
“You can do anything you wish to do, have anything you wish to have, be anything you wish to be.”
“Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.”
“A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success.”
“You can have anything you want if you are willing to give up the belief that you can't have it.”
“You have powers you never dreamed of. You can do things you never thought you could do...”
“Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.”
“When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.”
“It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not.”
“To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.”
“One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.”
“The only thing that stands between you and your dream is the will to try and the belief that it is actually possible.”
“The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost.”
“They can conquer who believe they can.”
“Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.”
“Popularity is people liking you. Happiness is you liking you.”
“Whether you think you can, or you think you can't - you're right.”
“Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.”
“Believe in yourself, and others will follow”
“Unless you think well of yourself, you can never become great.”
“The winners in life think constantly in terms of 'I can, I will, and I am.' Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.”
“Creativity means believing you have greatness.”
“Men are born to succeed, not fail.”
“Your success depends mainly on what you think of yourself and whether you believe in yourself.”
“Believe you can and you're halfway there.”
“If you believe in yourself and have dedication and pride - and never quit, you'll be a winner...”
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
“Believe that you can whip the enemy and you have won half the battle.”
“Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself.”
“Nobody will believe in you unless you believe in yourself.”
“When you harbor bitterness, happiness will dock elsewhere.”
“Emotion leads to action. Master your emotions and you master your actions.”
“You are as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fears; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.”
“Every time you find some humor in a difficult situation, you win.”
“Reacting in anger or annoyance will give you more problems than it solves.”
“Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.”
“Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.”
“My secret is 'I don't mind what happens.'”
“There is little success where there is little laughter.”
“If things go wrong, don't go with them.”
“Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.”
“Never reply when you are angry. Never make a promise when you are happy.”
“You must learn to let go. Release the stress. You were never in control anyway.”
“Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.”
“Thinking about interior peace destroys interior peace. The patient who constantly feels his pulse is not getting any better.”
“If you can't accept losing, you can't win.”
“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”
“Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power.”
“Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.”
“We have no right to ask when a sorrow comes, 'Why did this happen to me?' unless we ask the same question for every joy that comes our way.”
“When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace.”
“Fear and faith have a lot in common. Both of these emotions require that you believe in something that you can't see.”
“Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.”
“Worry is a misuse of imagination.”
“A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.”
“If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.”
“You can't control the waves, but you can learn to surf.”
“Patience is passion tamed.”
“Calmness is the cradle of power.”
“The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keep out the joy.”
“How people treat you is their Karma. How you react is yours.”
“He who angers you conquers you.”
“Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.”
“Ask yourself this question: Will this matter one year from now?”
“Every single second is an opportunity to change your life, because in any moment you can change the way you feel.”
