Category: Mindset Quotes

Perspective Quotes

“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”
― Douglas Adams

“There are no facts, only interpretations.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett


“One person’s craziness is another person’s reality.”
― Tim Burton

“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.”
― Alphonse Karr

“The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.”
― Horace Walpole


“The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.”
― Carl Sagan

“Some people see the glass half full. Others see it half empty.
I see a glass that’s twice as big as it needs to be.”
― George Carlin

“Most misunderstandings in the world could be avoided if people would simply take the time to ask, “What else could this mean?”
― Shannon L. Alder


“If it’s true that our species is alone in the universe, then I’d have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.”
― George Carlin

“A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.”
― Robertson Davies

“Make it dark, make it grim, make it tough, but then, for the love of God, tell a joke.”
― Joss Whedon


“I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.”
― Og Mandino

“One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.”
― Bertrand Russell

“In all affairs it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.”
― Bertrand Russell


“It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.”
― George Eliot

“No two persons ever read the same book.”
― Edmund Wilson

“Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.”
― J.M. Barrie


“What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.”
― Martha Graham

“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.”
― Bill Hicks

“Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.”
― Steven Wright


“There’s a fine line between support and stalking and let’s all stay on the right side of that.”
― Joss Whedon

“There is a huge amount of freedom that comes to you when you take nothing personally.”
― Don Miguel Ruiz


“When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.”
― George Bernard Shaw


“We often need to lose sight of our priorities in order to see them.”
― John Irving

“If someone does not want me it is not the end of the world. But if I do not want me, the world is nothing but endings.”
― Nayyirah Waheed

“The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close up.”
― Chuck Palahniuk

“A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.”
― Criss Jami

“Is someone different at age 18 or 60? I believe one stays the same.”
― Hayao Miyazaki

“Fairy Tales always have a happy ending.’ That depends… on whether you are Rumpelstiltskin or the Queen.”
― Jane Yolen



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MINDSET QUOTES [BLOG#6]

MINDSET QUOTES

“Happiness depends on your mindset and attitude.”
― Roy T. Bennett

“The mind is just like a muscle – the more you exercise it, the stronger it gets and the more it can expand.”
― Idowu Koyenikan


“It’s a funny thing about life, once you begin to take note of the things you are grateful for, you begin to lose sight of the things that you lack.”
― Germany Kent

“The mind has a powerful way of attracting things that are in harmony with it, good and bad.”
― Idowu Koyenikan


“Mind is a flexible mirror, adjust it, to see a better world.”
― Amit Ray,

“Once your mindset changes, everything on the outside will change along with it.”
― Steve Maraboli,


“There is nothing either ‘ good or bad ‘ but ‘ thinking ‘ makes it so. It is the “perception” that makes things what they are. Good and bad is in our mind. It is our mindset, our mental attitude that determines how we will interpret and respond to situations.
Erik pevernagie – (“Is that all there is ?”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Happiness has to do with your mindset, not with outside circumstance.”
― Steve Maraboli,


“When love is roaming in our mind, looping in the deepest fringes of our heart, undreamt spaciousness emerges, repealing the constraints of triviality and letting stifling narrowness fade away. While our mindset is besieged by a revolving burst of emotion, our world is ultimately opening up. (Cape of good hope)”
― Erik Pevernagie

“People who feel imprisoned in a pen of alienation, in a world of misfits, clobbered by unresponsiveness and indifference, may find release by ring-fencing a mental space to reflect on their mindset and to recover their true self. (“Did not expect it would ever happen there” )”
― Erik Pevernagie


“Like most North Americans of his generation, Hal tends to know way less about why he feels certain ways about the objects and pursuits he’s devoted to than he does about the objects and pursuits themselves. It’s hard to say for sure whether this is even exceptionally bad, this tendency.”
― David Foster Wallace,

“As we might be overwhelmed by the dictate of a mindset at odds with reality, and cannot get a grip on our unconsciousness, rather than curling up in the hive of uncomfortable expectations, let us cry out and unshackle our free will. (“Transcendental journey”)”
― Erik Pevernagie


“Open the window of your mind. Allow the fresh air, new lights and new truths to enter.”
― Amit Ray,

“The greatest win is walking away and choosing not to engage in drama and toxic energy at all.”
― Lalah Delia



A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject. –Winston Churchill

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor. –Brian Tracy


Do not be afraid of failure, but learn from it. – John Wooden

It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going. –Brian Tracy


The best way to predict your future is to create it. –Abraham Lincoln

You can change all things for the better when you change yourself for the better. –Jim Rohn


Discipline is the bridge between thought and accomplishment. –Jim Rohn

The view you adopt for yourself profoundly affects the way you lead your life. It can determine whether you become the person you want to be. –Carol Dweck


You are always free to choose what you do first, what you do second, and what you do not at all. –Brian Tracy

You’re in charge of your mind. You can help it grow by using it in the right way. –Carol Dweck


Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations. –Steve Jobs

Become the change you want to see—those are words I live by. –Oprah Winfrey


The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. –Franklin D. Roosevelt

The passion for stretching yourself and sticking to it, even (or especially) when it’s not going well, is the hallmark of the growth mindset. –Carol Dweck


“If the light in our hearts can brighten up the darkness in the mindset of our neighbors, we liberate them from a prison of distrust and prejudice. The healing glow unshackles the frozen atoms of their minds. (“Le ciel c’est l’autre”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

“You push the TRUTH off a cliff, but it will always fly. You can submerge the TRUTH under water, but it will not drown. You can place the TRUTH in the fire, but it will survive. You can bury the TRUTH beneath the ground, but it will arise. TRUTH always prevails!”
― Amaka Imani Nkosazana


“A tornado of thought is unleashed after each new insight. This in turn results in an earthquake of assumptions. These are natural disasters that re-shape the spirit.”
― Vera Nazarian

“There will be times in your life when things simply have to be replaced because they are tired, broken, worn out, harmful, outdated, or irrelevant. Take an inventory of the things that no longer serve your best and highest good so you can replace them with things which do.”
― Susan C. Young


“There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge. Both poverty and riches are the offspring of thought.”
― Napoleon Hill

“Do you know great minds enjoy excellence, average minds love mediocrity and small minds adore comfort zones?”
― Onyi Anyado


The habit of giving up when the present task is half finished and try something else is one of the chief causes of failure. –Christian D. Larson

I don’t mind losing as long as I see improvement or I feel I’ve done as well as I possibly could. –Carol Dweck


Belief in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers, you cannot be successful or happy. –Norman Vincent Peale

In adversity keep motivated, for often the best comes from difficulty. –Norman Vincent Peale


Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. –A.A. Milne

“Convince yourself everyday that you are worthy of a good life. Let go of stress, breathe. Stay positive, all is well.”
― Germany Kent


“If all we had were roses, would the thorns then be beautiful?”
― Kamand Kojouri

“Man is not a circle with a single center; he is an ellipse with two focii. Facts are one, ideas are the other.”
― Victor Hugo


“Quitting is never an option on the road to success. Find the way forward. If you have a positive mindset and are willing to persevere, there is little that is beyond your reach. The attitude of being ready to work even in the face of challenges and despite odds is what will make all the difference in your life.”
― Roopleen

Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do. –Benjamin Spock


Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence. –Hal Borland

It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about. –Dale Carnegie


First and foremost, let us remember that change has never been quick. Change has never been simple, or without controversy. Change depends on persistence. Change requires determination. –Barack Obama

Never has man reached his destination by persistence in deviation from the straight path. –Mahatma Gandhi

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