Quotes about Mindset

I wish I had a stone for the knife," the old man said after he had checked the lashing on the oar butt. "I should have brought a stone." You should have brought many things, he thought. But you did not bring them, old man. Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.

Don't think about that either. If you don't think about it, it doesn't exist. The hell it doesn't. But that's the system I'm going on, he thought.

I've had plenty to worry about one time or other. I'm through worrying.

As natural and easy as it has been to be proud, it must become natural for us to be humble.

It's time to stop letting your history control your destiny.

You are where you are because of your thinking. Your thinking dictates your decisions. Decisions are choices.

If you do not want an average life, you must be on guard against, and quietly suspicious of, conclusions made by conventional thinking.

Every single day for the rest of your life, somebody is going to push you in the pool. And you'd better decide now how you're going to act when it happens.

If it is true that your choices determine your destiny, and if the truth is that your thinking determines your choices, then it is, in fact, your thinking that determines your destiny.

If you can understand and believe that you have made choices that took you to a place you don't like, doesn't it make logical sense thatyou can now make choices that will take you to a place you do like?" ..."So now your game becomes one of seeking wisdom and harnessing the power of that wisdom in order to make better choices.

Always remember that you have been created with a will that is stronger than your emotions. You can choose how you act, despite how you feel.

The way a person thinks is the key to everything that follows -- good or bad, success or failure. A person's thinking -- the way he thinks -- is the foundation structure upon which a life is built. Thinking guides decisions. Thinking -- how a person thinks -- determines every choice.