Quotes about Mindset

The problem with thinking "we go to church" is that it gives us a consumer mindset: I'm looking for a church that meets my needs. I need a good church that will help me.

To train is to commit to developing strategic habits that equip you to do the right thing in the moment.

What science is showing us today is what God told us through Solomon almost three thousand years ago: "For as he thinks in his heart, so is he" (Proverbs 23:7 NKJV). So if both the Bible and modern science teach us that our lives are moving in the direction of our strongest thoughts, then we need to make time for introspection and ask ourselves, "Do I like the direction my thoughts are taking me?

In ten years, we will each look in the mirror, and someone will stare back. That person will be shaped by the thoughts of today.

If you think you're trapped, if you believe there's a lock on the door, you've bought into a lie. And it is the lie, nothing else, that is holding you back. Yet if you identify that lie, then you can remove it. You can replace it with the truth and be free. Your liberation is a simple two-step process: Remove the lie. Replace it with truth.

It's remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent.

Every time you think the problem is 'out there,' that very thought is the problem.

I like to talk to myself ahead of time so when temptation comes, I've already made up my mind that I have the victory.

My mama used to say if you frown on the outside long enough, eventually you'll grow a frown on the inside, too.

Joy, I realized, isn't so much a circumstance you find yourself in but a choice you make.

May comments, "We're always trying to persuade ourselves of things." Are

The spirit of excellence exorcises the demon of mediocrity.