Quotes about Mindset

The very moment that you make the shift to finding your purpose, growing to your potential, and helping others, successful is something you are right now, not something you vaguely hope one day to be.

What you believe identifies who you are.

Only when you make the right changes to your thinking do other things begin to turn out right.

A belief is not just an idea that you possess; it is an idea that possesses you.

Ben Franklin quipped, Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall receive it. Negative expectations are a quick route to dead-end thinking.

make the most of the difficult situation of working for a bad boss, learn to think like a leader yourself. Think people, think progress, and think intangibles.

Psychologist William James said, That which holds our attention determines our action. In other words, your behavior follows your attitude. The two cannot be separated. As author LeRoy Eims says, How can you know what is in your heart? Look at your behavior.

People who blame others for their failures never overcome them. They simply move from problem to problem.

People approach any task with one of two mindsets: what I call the "Be-Good" mindset, where your focus is on proving that you have a lot of ability and already know what you're doing, and the "Get-Better" mindset, where your focus is on developing ability. You can think of it as the difference between wanting to prove that you are smart, and wanting to get smarter.

Do you know how to die victoriously? Quit keeping score of the injustices that have happened to you.

People who make growth their goal—instead of a title, position, salary, or other external target—always have a future.

Who you are determines the way you see everything. You cannot separate your identity from your perspective.