33 Amazing Quotes on Mindset

Getting Your Mind Right

Whether you are an experienced leader or just starting your career, your mindset matters.  Often we’re asked to adapt to previously unimaginable changes in our world or our marketplace.  Sometimes we’re challenged by our own self-talk.  

One of my favorite quotes on mindset comes from Henry Ford.  He’s often quoted as saying, “whether you think you can, or you think you can’t, you’re right.”  Brilliant!  

Many great philosophers and leaders, for a while, thought they were the first to observe that our thoughts control our perception of reality.

Eventually, these curious minds found that great thinkers of antiquity made the same observations thousands of years earlier. 

The idea that a great, positive mindset is the basis for human accomplishment is important. What’s more important is that today it’s true, and it’s actionable.

As we move toward the middle of the third decade of the 21st century, we’re faced with myriad challenges.  The quotes in this article serve as a reminder and a pathway to help you control the greatest of all “controllables,” our thoughts.  

When our mindset is right, we become unstoppable, don’t we?

Enjoy these 33 mindset quotes!

1. “Enthusiasm moves the world.”  —  Arthur Balfour

2. “To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.”  —  Dorothea Brande

3. “Don’t let someone else’s opinion become your reality.”  —  Les Brown

4. “Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp. Or what’s a heaven for?”  —  Robert Browning

5. “The mind is everything.  What you think you become.”  —  Buddha

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6. “Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.”  —  Carol Burnett

7. “Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.”   —  Joseph Campbell

8. “When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one, but you won’t come up with a handful of mud either.”  —  Leo Burnett

9. “The trick is in what one emphasizes.  We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong.  The amount of work is the same.”  —  Carlos Castaneda

10. “Don’t worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try.”   —  Jack Canfield

 11. “How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.”  —  G. K. Chesterton

12. “We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.”  —  Marie Curie

13. “And when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you achieve it.”  —  Paul Coelho

14. “A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”  —  Winston Churchill

15. “The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.”  —   Arthur C Clarke

16. “Nothing is hopeless that is right.”  —  Susan B Anthony

17. “I think therefore I am.”   —  Renee Descartes

18. “I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.”  —  Jimmy Dean

19. “I am the greatest.  I said that even before I knew I was.”  —  Muhammad Ali

20. “He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.”  —  Louisa May Alcott

21. “Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand.  The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.”  —  Alexander Graham Bell

22. “The greatest pollution problem we face today is negativity. Eliminate the negative attitude and believe you can do anything.” —  Mary Kay Ash

23. “Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”  —  Ralph Waldo Emerson

24. “A man’s life is what his thoughts make of it.”  —  Marcus Aurelius

25. “Never interrupt someone doing something you said couldn’t be done.” — Amelia Earhart

26. “It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.” —  Epictetus

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27. “Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.”  —  President Thomas Jefferson

28. “There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can.”  —  Henry Ford

29. “The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.”  —  William James

30. “Do your own thinking independently.  Be the chess player, not the chess piece.”  —  Ralph Charell 

31. “We don’t rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training.”  — Archilochos

32. “Know the true value of time; snatch, seize and enjoy every minute of it.” —  Lord Chesterfield

33. “Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”  —  Napoleon Hill

Thanks for reading through this list of mindset quotes! Which one was your favorite? What will you do differently now?

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