49 Quotes About Growth Mindset

Having a mindset focused on growth is just one way to achieve your dreams. These quotes about growth mindset will bring you the encouragement you need to be successful.

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

“A mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it is not open.”

“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.”

“Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.”

“Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.”

“Don’t tell me how talented you are. Tell me how hard you work.”

“Don’t worry about failure. Worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try.”

“Dreams don’t work unless you do.”

“Failure is success if we learn from it.”

“Geniuses is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.”

“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.”

“How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.”

“I don’t divide the world into the weak and the strong, or the successes and the failures. . .I divide the world into the learners and the non-learners.”

“If plan A doesn’t work, the alphabet has 25 more letters – 204 if you’re in Japan.”

“If you can dream it, you can do it.”

“If you don’t give anything, don’t expect anything. Success is not coming to you, you must come to it.”

“If you’re making mistakes, it means you’re out there doing something.”

“In criticizing, the teacher is hoping to teach. That’s all.”

“It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.”

“It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.”

“Nothing will work unless you do.”

“Only in the darkness can you see the stars.”

“Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.”

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

“The real fault is to have faults and not to amend them.”

“The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.”

“The very best thing you can do for the whole world is to make the most of yourself.”

“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.”

“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle, or the mirror that reflects it.”

“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.”

“To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you did not do than by the ones you did. So… sail away from the safe harbor. Explore. Dream. Discover.”

“We are all here for some special reason. Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future.”

“We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves.”

“We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.”

“We should open ourselves to the impossible and embrace a psychology of possibility.”

“What you envision in your mind, how you see yourself, and how you envision the world around you is of great importance because those things become your focus.”

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

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

“When people undermine your dreams, predict your doom, or criticize your, remember, they’re telling you their story, not yours.”

“Whether you think you can, or think you can’t — you’re right.”

“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.”

“You have to apply yourself each day to becoming a little better. By becoming a little better each and every day, over a period of time, you will become a lot better.”

There is a power in belief that is the strongest thing you will ever experience.