Keeping the spirits high and remaining optimistic is not always as easy as it seems. Everyone has their challenges and everybody faces setbacks. Even kids are no exception to this. While hardships are inevitable, it is our perception of those hardships that truly matters.
If you are someone who ponders on the problem more than the solutions, it is time that you change your mindset and shift it towards more growth and positivity. A healthy and growth-oriented mindset lets you view the world rationally and set realistic goals to fulfill your dreams. It helps you grow out of your comfort zone and keep you moving throughout the challenging times.
In this article, we have curated an extensive list of some wonderful mindset quotes that will help you develop an enriching perception of the world, necessary for succeeding in life. Before we move to the quotes, let’s first understand what a mindset exactly is and why it is important.
What is a Mindset and why is it important?
First introduced by a professor at Stanford University, Carol S. Dweck gave the concept of growth mindset and fixed mindset in her book “Mindset: The Psychology of Success”. The fixed mindset is the belief that no matter what, the abilities and skills cannot be improved, and a fixed set of beliefs will persist for a lifetime. On the other hand, a Growth mindset is a belief that with constant hard work, persistence, and dedication, failures can be turned into success and the most difficult of tasks can become effortless. According to Dweck, it is the belief that people can expand their intellectual capabilities and that with effort and dedication, they can continually improve.
A growth mindset helps individuals develop intelligence over time, embrace challenges as an opportunity to learn and grow, overcome failures, embrace constructive feedback, be inspired by other’s success, step out of their comfort zone, believe that talent is ever-improving, and so on.
A growth mindset is an asset that can be developed over time to help us move towards a more successful life. It is further important because-
- It builds resilience
- Ensures life-long development
- Helps focus on the progress
- Enhance learning opportunities
- Boost self-confidence and increase self-awareness
- Helps deal with challenges better
And the list goes on. Developing a growth mindset in childhood will not only help you ace your academic years but also prepare you for personal and professional challenges ahead. To help you develop a growth mindset, we have collected some amazing mindset quotes that you can read anytime and get motivated with.
Mindset quotes for children
Here is the list of some amazing life-changing mindset quotes, spoken by some renowned personalities. The list is as follows-
1. Challenges are what make life interesting. Overcoming them is what makes life meaningful. – Joshua Marine
2. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. -Albert Einstein
3. Improve by 1% a day and in just 70 days, you’re twice as good. – Alan Weiss
4. Vision is not enough. It must be combined with ventures. It is not enough to stare up the steps; we must also step up the stairs. – Vaclav Havel
5. Every defeat gives us a new opportunity to try again. – Avijeet Das
6. It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop. -Confictus
7. Don’t worry about failure. Worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try. – Sherman Finesilver
8. Things don’t go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.-Samuel Johnson
9. You don’t have to have a small fortune to achieve your dreams. You simply must overcome the obstacles that get in your way and be willing to triumph over your fear and take a leap of faith. – Alicia Gracia
10. The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work. – Harry Golden
11. The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem. – Captain Jack Sparrow
12. Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it. – Michael Jordan
13. It always seems impossible until it’s done. -Nelson Mandela
14. Challenges are an opportunity to test you and rise to the next level. – Angelica Montrose
15. This is something I know for a fact: You have to work hardest for the things you love most. – Carol S. Dweck
16. If you don’t give anything, don’t expect anything. Success is not coming to you. You must come get it. – Marva Collins
17. Real difficulties can be overcome; it is the imaginary ones that are unconquerable. – Theodore Newton Vail
18. Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed no hope at all. -Dale Carnegie
19. Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. – Truman Capote
20. Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they’re supposed to help you discover who you are. – Bernice Johnson Reagon
21. A winner is someone who recognizes his god-given talents, works his tail-off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals. – Larry Bird
22. The best way to predict your future is to create it. – Abraham Lincoln
23. You can change all things for the better when you change yourself for the better. – Jim Rohn
24. Belief in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers, you cannot be successful or happy. – Norman Vincent Peale
25. A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep. – Vernon Howard
26. We like to think of our champions and idols as superheroes who were born different from us. We don’t like to think of them as relatively ordinary people who made themselves extraordinary. – Carol S. Dweck
27. You have to apply yourself each day to becoming a little better. Be becoming a little better each and every day, over a period of time, you will become a lot better. – John Wooden
28. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not me, who? – Steve Geiger
29. The mind is just like a muscle- the more you exercise it, the stronger it gets and the more it can expand. – Idowu Koyenikan
30. Once your mindset changes, everything on the outside will change along with it. – Steve Maraboli
31. A challenge only becomes an obstacle when you bow to it. – Ray Davis
32. If you are going through a time of discouragement, there is a time of great personal growth ahead. – Oswald Chambers
33. The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it. – J.M.Barrie
34. It is the ability to resist to use the failure that often leads to great success. – J.K. Rowling
35. Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory. – George S. Patton
36. The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done. – Arnold Palmer
37. You can use the stumbling blocks to build your success. -Lailah Gifty Akita
38. Sometimes, instead of climbing over the barricades, you’ve got to walk around them. – Bono
39. Your thoughts don’t make you who you are, your actions do. Be better than your thoughts. – Bucky Buckbinder
40. Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacles. – Christian D. Larson
41. Everything you have ever wanted is on the other side of the fear. – George Addair
42. The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person’s determination. – Tommy Lasorda
43. Look for the good in every situation, seek the valuable lesson in every setback, look for the solution to every problem. Think and talk continually about your goals. – Brian Tracy
44. The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do. – Steve Jobs
45. Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. – Thomas Edison
46. You sort of think anything’s possible if you have got enough nerve. – Joanne Rowling
47. When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor. – Elon Musk
48. The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. – Thomas Paine
49. You don’t have to be great at the start, but you have to start to be great. – Zig Ziglar
50. The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.– Franklin D. Roosevelt
51. Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
52. You can achieve anything you want in life if you have the courage to dream it, the intelligence to make a realistic plan, and the will to see that plan through to the end. – Sidney A. Friedman
53. The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you can control your own destiny. – Albert Ellis
54. The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and starting on the first one. -Mark Twain
55. Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again. – Richard Branson
56. Never limit yourself because of other’s limited imagination, never limit others because of your own limited organizations. – Mae Jemison
57. It is kind of fun to do the impossible. – Walt Disney
58. Just because you haven’t found your talent yet doesn’t mean you don’t have one. -Kermit the Frog
59. I am always doing what I cannot do yet. In order to learn how to do it. – Vincent Van Gogh
60. The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make a mistake. – Elbert Hubbard
Wrapping up
It is the way we perceive the world that shapes our mindset. While there are many ways to incorporate a healthy and growth mindset into our lifestyle, reading some mindset quotes is a sure way to do so. These quotes serve as perfect words of encouragement, and inspiration, and the legends who spoke these quotes are a testament to the importance of having a growth mindset in life. You can combine these quotes with some growth mindset activities or use them as morning journal prompts to get the maximum benefits of these quotes.
We suggest you find some quotes that you can better relate to and implement them in your life. Use them whenever you feel like giving up or the obstacles seem bigger than they actually are. Remember, it’s your resilience and belief in yourself that fosters a healthy mindset.
I am Sehjal Goel, a psychology student, and a writer. I am currently pursuing my Masters’s from Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. Child psychology has always fascinated me and I have a deep interest in learning about disabilities in children and spreading awareness regarding the same. My other areas of interest are neuropsychology and cognitive psychology. Connect me on Linkedin