30+ Mindset Quotes That Changed How I See the World
A curated list of banger quotes.
(psst, don’t forget to pin this for later!)
This is my curated list of the absolute BEST creative, inspiring, deep and powerful growth mindset quotes.
I don’t just use these quotes to stay positive and happy. They literally shift (or recalibrate) my perspectives in life.
They help me stay the course on my goals and maintain my adventurer energy. And that’s all I can ask for really :)
So bookmark this post for later (for anytime you need a fresh lens and a little inspiration).
Right then, let’s get to it!
“Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.”
—Henry Ford
“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
—Anaïs Nin
“Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.”
—Kurt Cobain
“I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.”
—Andy Warhol
“Reality is for people who lack imagination.”
—Hayao Miyazaki
“If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.”
—Thomas J. Watson
“You owe it to all of us to get on with what you're good at.”
—W. H. Auden
“Fear does not prevent death. It prevents life.”
—Naguib Mahfouz
“If I have a side, it's against extremism - of any kind: religious, political, other. There's no conversation when everybody is absolutely certain of the righteousness of their argument.”
—Anthony Bourdain
“The obstacle is the path.”
—Zen proverb
“To be discouraged is a part of training.”
—Unknown
“Maybe happiness is this: not feeling that you should be elsewhere, doing something else, being someone else.”
—Isaac Asimov / Eric Weiner
“Where your fear is, there is your task.”
—Carl Jung
“Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.”
—Leonard Cohen
“By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it.”
—Franz Kafka
“We have one life, one shot at all the glorious things of life, and we walk about constricted, apologetic, afraid. We have so little time; we have so little space upon which to spread our love and our talents and our kindness. Run toward life fulsomely and freely.”
—Tennessee Williams
“Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?”
—Tennessee Williams
“We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination.”
—David Lynch
“When you feel in your gut what you are and then dynamically pursue it - don't back down and don't give up - then you're going to mystify a lot of folks.”
—Bob Dylan
“If you come a little bit foolish, act just a little bit foolish, and let yourself go, better ideas will come.”
—Charlie Parker
“The meaning of life is to give life meaning.”
—Viktor Frankl
“I was the shyest human ever invented, but I had a lion inside me that wouldn’t shut up!”
—Ingrid Bergman
“There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.”
—Freya Stark
“Start copying what you love. Copy copy copy copy. At the end of the copy you will find yourself.”
—Yohji Yamamoto
“I think perfection is ugly. Somewhere in the things humans make, I want to see scars, failure, disorder, distortion.”
—Yohji Yamamoto
“Everything is explained now. We live in an age when you say casually to somebody 'What's the story on that?' and they can run to the computer and tell you within five seconds. That's fine, but sometimes I’d just as soon continue wondering. We have a deficit of wonder right now.”
—Tom Waits
“The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.”
—Mary Oliver
“Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life. Decide how you want to live and then see what you can do to make a living within that way of life.”
—Hunter S. Thompson
“You are way too creative for a 9 to 5.”
“If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.”
—Marc Chagall
That last quote is a reminder to get out of the mind. Ultimately, no matter how fine-tuned you make your mindset, there comes a time to let it all go and find your flow.
Don’t forget about your intuition. The heart. It’s a guide, an internal compass when you have none.
Alright, that’s all I’ve got for this list.
Good luck out there——later ✌️
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