Quotes about Mindset

Joy and resentment cannot coexist.

While visiting the University of Notre Dame, where I had been a teacher for a few years, I met an older experienced professor who had spent most of his life there. And while we strolled over the beautiful campus, he said with a certain melancholy in his voice, "You know,… my whole life I have been complaining that my work was constantly interrupted, until I discovered that my interruptions were my work.

The reward of choosing joy is joy itself.

If you want to be happy, be!

We cannot see anything until we are possessed with the idea of it, take it into our heads, - and then we can hardly see anything else.

It is a very remarkable and significant fact that though no man is quite well or healthy yet every one believes practically that health is the rule & disease the exception.

How can we expect a harvest of thought who have not had a seed-time of character?

Some would find fault with the morning-red, if they ever got up early enough.

Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead. Philippians 3:13

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.