120+ Best Growth Mindset Quotes To Make You Greatest

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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

A man who has committed a mistake and doesn’t correct it is committing another mistake. – Confucius

Vision is not enough. It must be combined with venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps; we must also step up the stairs. – Vaclav Havel

A challenge only becomes an obstacle when you bow to it. – Ray Davis

Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance. – Samuel Johnson

It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop. – Confucius

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it. – Margaret Thatcher

If you are facing a new challenge or being asked to do something that you have never done before don’t be afraid to step out. You have more capability than you think you do but you will never see it unless you place a demand on yourself for more. – Joyce Meyer

Dreams don’t work unless you do. – John C. Maxwell

Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. – Thomas Watson

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. – Theodore Roosevelt

Success is not an accident, success is a choice. – Stephen Curry

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. – Albert Einstein

Challenges are what make life interesting. Overcoming them is what makes life meaningful. – Joshua J. Marine

The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work. – Harry Golden

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. – George Bernard Shaw

Nothing is IMPOSSIBLE. THE WORD ITSELF SAYS I’M POSSIBLE! – Audrey Hepburn

Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend’s success. – Oscar Wilde

Try a thing you haven’t done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. – And a third time, to figure out whether you like it or not. – Virgil Garnett Thomson

Live as if you were to die tomorrow; learn as if you were to live forever. – Mahatma Gandhi

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. – Henry Ford

The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss. – Thomas Carlyle

Most people never run far enough on the first wind to find out they’ve got a second. Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you. – William James

Success is not an accident, success is a choice. Stephen Curry

Failure is so important. It is the ability to resist failure or use failure that often leads to greater success. – J.K. Rowling

Don’t tell me how talented you are. Tell me how hard you work. – Artur Rubenstein

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Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

After living with their dysfunctional behavior for so many years, people become invested in defending their dysfunctions rather than changing them. – Marshall Goldsmith

The real fault is to have faults and not to amend them. – Confucius

Nothing is impossible. The word itself says ‘I’m possible!’ – Audrey Hepburn

If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it’s OK. But you’ve got to shoot for something. A lot of people don’t even shoot. – Confucius

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps. – Confucius

Before the beginning of brilliance, there must be great chaos. Before a brilliant person begins something great, they must look foolish in the crowd. – from I Ching written by Fu His

There has to be this pioneer, the individual with the courage, the ambition to overcome the obstacles that always develop when one tries to do something worthwhile that is new and different. – Alfred P. Sloan

When the world says, ‘Give up,’ Hope whispers, ‘Try one more time.’ – Unknown

It is hard to fail but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. Theodore Roosevelt

Challenges are what make life interesting. Overcoming them is what makes life meaningful. – Joshua Marine

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. – George Bernard Shaw

It’s kind of fun to do the impossible. – Walt Disney

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable. – Erich Fromm

Man’s main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. – Erich Fromm

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try. – Unknown

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success. – Napoleon Hill

How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win. – Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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

Security is not the meaning of my life. Great opportunities are worth the risk. – Shirley Hurstedler

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make a mistake. – Elbert Hubbard

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Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could … Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

He who wrestles with us, strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skills. Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. – Winston Churchill

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you did not do than by the ones you did. – Mark Twain

Work hard now. Don’t wait. If you work hard enough, you’ll be given what you deserve. Shaquille O’Neal

The problem human beings face is not that we aim too high and fail, but that we aim too low and succeed. – Michelangelo

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool. – Richard P.Feynman

What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for a worthwhile goal, a freely chosen task. – Viktor E. Frankl

Becoming is better than being. – Carol Dweck

Whenever an individual or business decides that success has been attained, progress stops. – Thomas J. Watson

Improve by 1% a day, and in just 70 days, you’re twice as good. – Alan Weiss

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. – Thomas Edison

We find comfort among those who agree with us, and growth among those who don’t. – Frank A. Clark

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it’s the same problem you had last year. – John Foster Dulles

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

If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful at all.

No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking. – Voltaire

Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible. – Miguel Unamuno

I am not afraid of storms for I am learning to sail my ship. – Louisa May Alcott

We must get our hearts broken sometimes. This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something. – Elizabeth Gilbert

There is no failure. Only feedback. – Robert Allen

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things. – Winston Churchill

We find comfort among those who agree with us, and growth among those who don’t. – Frank A. Clark

The only true failure lies in the failure to start. – Harold Blake Walker

Many of life’s failures are people who did not realise how close they were to success when they gave up. – Thomas Edison

Vision is not enough. It must be combined with venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps; we must also step up the stairs. – Vaclac Havel

By amending our mistakes, we get wisdom. By defending our faults, we betray an unsound mind. – Hui Neng

In criticizing, the teacher is hoping to teach. That’s all. – Bankei

When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir? – John Maynard Keynes

Always do what you are afraid of doing. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

A genius! For 37 years I’ve practiced fourteen hours a day, and now they call me a genius! – Pablo Sarasate

Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger. – Franklin P. Jones

The very best thing you can do for the whole world is to make the most of yourself. – Wallace Wattles

There’s no such thing as failure, only results. – Tony Robbins

It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer. – Albert Einstein

Don’t worry about the level of individual prominence you have achieved; worry about the individuals you have helped become better people. – Clayton Christensen

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing. – Unknown

Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be. – J. – W. Goethe

Everybody dies, but not everybody lives. – A. Sachs

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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

Failure is success if we learn from it. – Malcolm Forbes

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. – Walter Gagehot

Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree long time ago. Warren Buffett

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heart-breaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats. – B.C. Forbes

Don’t worry about failure. Worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try. – Sherman Finesilver

Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. – Thomas Edison

It’s not that I’m so smart. It’s just that I stay with problems longer. – Albert Einstein

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. – Winston Churchill

It takes 20 years to make an overnight success. – Eddie Cantor

Unless you’re willing to have a go, fail miserably, and have another go, success won’t happen. – Phillip Adams

Few men have the natural strength to honor a friend’s success without envy. – Aeschylus

The worst bankrupt in the world is the man who has lost his enthusiasm. – Let a man lose everything else in the world but his enthusiasm and he will come through again to success. – H.W. Arnold

The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work. Harry Golden

What you get by reaching your destination is not nearly as important as what you will become by reaching your destination. – Unknown

Everybody dies, but not everybody lives. – A Sachs

There are three musts that hold us back: I must do well. You must treat me well. And the world must be easy. – Albert Ellis

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 control your own destiny. – Albert Ellis

My dad encouraged us to fail. Growing up, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn’t have something, he would be disappointed. It changed my mindset at an early age that failure is not the outcome, failure is not trying. Don’t be afraid to fail. – Sara Blakely

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So sail away from the safe harbour. Explore, Dream, Discover. – Mark Twain

I think the future of psychotherapy and psychology is in the school system. We need to teach every child how to rarely seriously disturb himself or herself and how to overcome disturbance when it occurs. – Albert Ellis

It is never too late to be what you might have been. – George Elliot

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. – Maya Angelou

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. – E.E. Cummings

Knowing what is and knowing what can be are not the same thing. – Ellen Langer

We should open ourselves to the impossible and embrace a psychology of possibility. – Ellen Langer

Certainty is a cruel mindset. It hardens our minds against possibility. – Ellen Langer

Dreams don’t work unless you do. – John C. Maxwell

There is always a step small enough from where we are to get us to where we want to be. If we take that small step, there’s always another we can take, and eventually a goal thought to be too far to reach becomes achievable. – Ellen Langer

Failure is not fatal, but failing to change might be. – John Wooden

Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of being. – John Wooden

Nothing will work unless you do. – John Wooden

At God’s footstool to confess,
A poor soul knelt and bowed his head.
“I failed,” he cried, the Master said,
“Thou didst thy best, that is success.”

It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop. Confucius

The team that makes the most mistakes usually wins. – Piggy Lambert

Test scores and measures of achievement tell you where a student is, but they don’t tell you where a student could end up. Carol Dweck

There isn’t a person anywhere who isn’t capable of doing more than he thinks he can. – Henry Ford