"Why waste time proving over and over how great you are, when you could be getting better? Why hide deficiencies instead of overcoming them?"
— Carol Dweck
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"Why waste time proving over and over how great you are, when you could be getting better? Why hide deficiencies instead of overcoming them?"
— Carol Dweck
"People with the fixed mind-set expect everything good to happen automatically."
— Carol Dweck
"There has never been a statue erected to honour a critic."
— Zig Ziglar
"The remarkable thing is, we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past. we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent of how I react it. And so it'is with you... we are in charge of our Attitudes."
— Charles Swindoll
"The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company, a church, or a home."
— Unknown
"The Attitude of people with fixed mind-set: Success is about establishing their superiority, pure and simple. Being that somebody who is worthier than the nobodies."
— Carol Dweck
"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."
— Helen Keller
"No one can defeat us unless we first defeat ourselves."
— Dwight D Eisenhower
"Troubles, like babies, grow larger by nursing."
— Lady Holland
"Why do you look so sad and forsaken? When one door is closed, don't you know another is open"
— Bob Marley
"Happiness mainly comes from our own attitude, rather than from external factors."
— Dalai Lama
"You are always in charge of the direction of your life, avoid the 'victim' orientation."
— Jeffrey Keller
"Eliminate negative phrases such as 'I can't,' 'It's impossible,' 'This won't work;' these statements 'program' you for negative results."
— Jeffrey Keller
"If we choose to be no more than clods of clay, then we shall be used as clods of clay for braver feet to tread on."
— Marie Corelli
"The world has a way of giving what is demanded of it. If you are frightened and look for failure and poverty, you will get them, no matter how hard you may try to succeed. Lack of faith in yourself, in what life will do for you, cuts you off from the good things of the world. Expect victory and you make victory. Nowhere is this truer than in business that is, where bravery and faith bring both material and spiritual reward."
— Preston Bradley
"The pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; the optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
— L P Jacks
"To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems."
— Sir Walter Scott
"Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are."
— Norman Vincent Peale
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