Quotes about Mindset
The biggest gap between failure and success is the distance between I should and I did.
— John Maxwell
The winner's edge is in the attitude, not aptitude.
— John Maxwell
One of the reasons people don't achieve their dreams is that they desire to change their results without changing their thinking.
— John Maxwell
If you expect to fail, sure enough, you will. If you expect to succeed, sure enough, you will. You will become on the outside what you believe on the inside.
— John Maxwell
Limit the effect of any emotional high or low to the twenty-four-hour period that follows the occurrence.
— John Maxwell
People cannot perform in a way inconsistent with the way they see themselves.
— John Maxwell
Thinking for a Change shares the way that I think on a daily basis. My wife, Margaret, says it has more of my DNA than any of my other books.
— John Maxwell
Don't change your circumstances to improve your life—change yourself to improve your circumstances.
— John Maxwell
Don't see change as something hurtful that must be done—see it as something helpful that can be done.
— John Maxwell
There are two things that are most difficult to get people to do: to think, and to do things in order of importance."
— John Maxwell
People who give with no strings attached almost always have an abundance mentality. They are generous because they believe that if they give, they will not run out of resources. Pastor and former college professor Henri Nouwen states, "When we refrain from giving, with a scarcity mentality, the little we have will become less. When we give generously, with an abundance mentality, what we give away will multiply.
— John Maxwell
I have found this to be true. Someone once asked me why he should adopt an abundance mentality, and he was surprised by my answer. I told him that if you believe in abundance, that's what life gives you. If you believe in scarcity, then that's what you get.
— John Maxwell