mindset shift quotes

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

I’m going to change the way martial arts is viewed. I’m going to change the game. I’m going to change the way people approach fighting.

The rich don’t work for money – the rich invent money.

Real life is the life that’s in you, not your circumstances, like where you live or what job you have or who you’re in relationship with.

I used to have a real problem with self-pity. Every time the devil would throw a pity party, I would attend.

You have to be able to accept failure to get better.

Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.

I was becoming post-ideological.

You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, ‚I release the need for this in my life‘.

People change because of kids. They change how they eat. They change the way they think. They change the way they see one another.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

Always fall in with what you’re asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever’s going. Not against: with.

Don’t grow accustomed to living with less, doing less, and being less to the point that you eventually sit back and accept it.

None but ourselves can free our minds.

Know that any and all thoughts that you have regarding your own skills, interests, and inclinations are valid. To reinforce the validity of your thoughts, keep them private. Tell yourself that they’re between you and God.

You don’t have the same mentality as you did five years ago – even one year. People are always changing, and I believe that everyone deserves the space to change and for people to recognize their change.

If you’ve lost your spirit, even living in the richest country in the world can’t help you become rich.

Learning to live for others isn’t something that just comes naturally to anybody. You have to train yourself to do it.

The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.

The great epochs of our life are the occasions when we gain the courage to rebaptize our evil qualities as our best qualities.

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.

‚Worry‘ is a word that I don’t allow myself to use.

I’ll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there’s evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

Ambition has become a dirty word, and I believe it is a great evolutionary force for the positive. If people fail or go astray in their ambition I can live with it but not with people lowering their expectations, wasting time, slacking off and glorifying failure and stupidity.

You can live your life angry, bitter, mad at somebody or even guilty, not letting go of your own mistakes, but you won’t receive the good things God has in store.

Words are powerful; if you change your words, you can change your life.

At 155, I will be the same animal, an even better animal.

To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.

I think how you start the day many times determines what kind of day you’re going to have.

A lot of the problems I had with fame I was bringing on myself. A lot of self-loathing, a lot of woe-is-me. Now I’m learning to see the positive side of things, instead of, like, ‚I can’t go to Kmart. I can’t take my kids to the haunted house.‘

If you sit there and have that mentality of ‚triple down on what you’re good at,‘ you’re never going to grow. You’re always going to stay the same.

My whole thing now is I know how to think properly to be successful in all aspects of my life. It’s not about ultra running or being a SEAL or pull-up records: it’s about if you want to be better you, have to change your perceived limitations and take the barriers down.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

I want to rethink ‚surrender‘ as an active verb.

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

Instead of blaming everyone and everything else for your problems, pray for God to help you take an inventory of what’s been on your mind so you can think about what you’ve been thinking about.

Learn to think continentally.

The mind is everything. What you think you become.

Being seventy is not a sin.

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don’t suffer anymore.

The possession of anything begins in the mind.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

I just have always felt that people don’t change, circumstances change.