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Mindset.

Shape your thoughts, shape your world.

“The high minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.”

“Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.”

Cormac McCarthy

“It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.”

“What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.”

Alexander Graham Bell

“Ideologies are substitutes for true knowledge, and ideologues are always dangerous when they come to power, because a simple-minded I-know-it-all approach is no match for the complexity of existence.”

Jordan Peterson

“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.”

Abraham Lincoln

“Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.”

“Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.”

Otto von Bismarck

“The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.”

“Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.”

“You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.”

“You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”

Alan Alexander Milne

“If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.”

“When the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.”

“For the highest, most varied and lasting pleasures are those of the mind, however much our youth may deceive us on this point; and the pleasures of the mind turn chiefly on the powers of the mind.”

Arthur Schopenhauer

“The single most powerful asset we all have is our mind. If it is trained well, it can create enormous wealth.”

Robert Kiyosaki

“Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.”

“You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.”

“Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something's wrong. He's not right in the brain.”

“My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.”

Albert Einstein

“Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.”

Benjamin Franklin

“I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.”

“I hope the millions of people I've touched have the optimism and desire to share their goals and hard work and persevere with a positive attitude.”

“Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.”

Eleanor Roosevelt

“I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about?”

“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”

Marcus Aurelius

“No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.”

“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.”

Eleanor Roosevelt

“Whenever you find a man who says he doesn't believe in a real right and wrong, you will find the same man going back on this a moment later.”

“When you possess great treasures within you, and try to tell others of them, seldom are you believed.”

“Happiness cannot come from without, it must come from within. It is not what we see and touch or that which others do for us which makes us happy; it is that which we think and feel and do, first for the other fellow and then for ourselves.”

“You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth of falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.”

“The story of the golden calf also reminds us that without rules we quickly become slaves to our passions—and there’s nothing freeing about that.”

Jordan Peterson

“Nurture your minds with great thoughts, to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”

Benjamin Disraeli

“No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.”

Arthur Conan Doyle

“It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day.”

“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.”

“Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.”

“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.”

Albert Einstein

“I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.”

Galileo Galilei

“Everybody is a political person, whether you say something or you are silent. A political attitude is not whether you go to parliament; it's how you deal with your life, with your surroundings.”

“The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.”

“Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.”

“If you want people to think you are wise, agree with them.”

Yiddish proverbs

“Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.”

“When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, you think it's only a minute. But when you sit on a hot stove for a minute, you think it's two hours. That's relativity.”

Albert Einstein

“I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.”

“If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.”

“It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing, and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.”

G.K. Chesterton