482 Mindset Quotes

A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones.

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

I've always believed in experiencing everything in life. When you walk out with blinders on, you cut yourself off from the angels and the fairies.

I don't take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache.

I've been lucky. I'll be lucky again.

The turning point in my career came with the realization that Black should play to win instead of just steering for equality.

Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.

Faith is a state of mind that can be conditioned through self-discipline. Faith will accomplish.

The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominating thought habits.

Life is wide, limitless. There is no border, no frontier.

Know the difference between a catastrophe and an inconvenience. - To realize that it's just an inconvenience, that it is not a catastrophe, but just an unpleasantness, is part of coming into your own, part of waking up.

In combat, spontaneity rules; rote performance of technique perishes.

It is true that the mental aspect of kung-fu is the desired end; however, to achieve this end, technical skill must come first.

The idea is that flowing water never goes stale, so just keep on flowing.

The mind is like a fertile garden in which anything that is planted, flowers or weeds, will grow.

The possession of anything begins in the mind.

If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.

There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.

An unbending and absolute acceptance of any idea is a sure sign of a small mind, no matter the greatness of intellect possesed by the one accepting that idea.

An individual's self-concept is the core of his personality. It affects every aspect of human behavior: the ability to learn, the capacity to grow and change. A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success in life.

Freedom begins between the ears.

The things we hate about ourselves aren't more real than things we like about ourselves.

An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.

The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.

To some, freedom means the opportunity to do what they want to do; to most it means not to do what they do not want to do. It is perhaps true that those who can grow will feel free under any condition.

You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy anyplace.

Mortal danger is an effective antidote for fixed ideas.

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Rather than continuing to seek the truth, simply let go of your views.

Life is too short to have anything but delusional notions about yourself.

Man is free; but not unless he believes he is[.]

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.

In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be a gainer; to forget oneself is to be happy.

To be overwise is to ossify; and the scruple-monger ends by standing stockstill.

The truth knocks on the door and you say, 'Go away, I'm looking for the truth,' and so it goes away. Puzzling.

In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's there are few.

Our tendency is to be interested in something that is growing in the garden, not in the bare soil itself. But if you want to have a good harvest, the most important thing is to make the soil rich and cultivate it well.

You are the grim, goal-oriented ones who will not believe that the joy is in the journey rather than the destination no matter how many times it has been proven to you.

You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind.

A genuinely fundamental and hopeful improvement in 'systems' cannot happen without a significant shift in human consciousness.

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

In order to bring about the transition from the condition of the present to another newly resolved on, every reform should be allowed to proceed as much as possible from men's minds and thoughts.

Les grandes pensees viennent du coeur.

Translated: Great thoughts come from the heart.

Thoughts are things.

Face facts.

Point of view is worth 80 IQ points

The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. -zen & motorcycle maintenance

Dare to be naive.

Do - don't stew.

Be grateful