108 Growth Mindset Quotes

Obstacles and mistakes aren't a reflection of a permanent problem. They are opportunities for us to work on and take lessons learnt.

The important thing to do is to maintain a positive mindset and fight any negative self-talk that convinces you that you nothing good can come out from you.

This is where a Growth Mindset can benefit you. A growth mindset isn't in denial of the situation; however, it sees a way through, and it is focused on the end goal.

In this article, I have a collection of thought-provoking, inspirational and wise mindset quotes.

Encouraging Quotes on Growth Mindset

1. When you think positive, good things happen. – Matt Kemp
2. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. - William James
3. If you want to conquer fear, don’t sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy. Dale Carnegie
4. Dying is only one thing to be sad over… Living unhappily is something else. Morrie Schwarts
5. Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness. – Oprah Winfrey
6. I write in a journal daily. This extraordinary ritual has revolutionized my mindset. Transformed my heart set, and generally influenced my life exponentially. - Robin S. Sharma
7. An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. – Martin Luther King Jr.
8. My greatest challenge has been to change the mindset of people. Mindsets play strange tricks on us. We see things the way our minds have instructed our eyes to see.  - Muhammad Yunus
9. To be a champion, I think you have to see the big picture. It’s not about winning and losing; it’s about every day hard work and about thriving on a challenge. It’s about embracing the pain that you’ll experience at the end of a race and not being afraid. I think people think too hard and get afraid of a certain challenge. - Summer Sanders
10. Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don;t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don;t let the noise of others' opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. – Steve Jobs

11. My mindset is the same every game.- Kawhi Leonard
12. God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. – Voltaire
13. Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.   Ray Bradbury
14. Beauty has so many forms, and I think the most beautiful thing is confidence and loving yourself. – Kiesza
15. Anyone that goes to battle goes to battle knowing the mindset and tactics of their enemies. – Brad Thor
16. Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you’re living?  - Bob Marley
17. If you go deeper and deeper into your own heart, you’ll be living in a world with less fear, isolation and loneliness. – Sharon Salzberg
18. Now that I’m doing all these big competitions, I’ve learned to control my nerves and control my mindset, and I think that’s where the maturity comes in.  - Laurie Hernandez
19. Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.  Denis Waitley
20. Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don;t wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it’s at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored. – Earl Nigthingale
21. Grinding is a mindset and a willingness and commitment to work at it. - J. B. Bickerstaff
22. People talk about perfect timing, but I think everything is perfect in its moment; you just want to capture that. – Eddie Huang
23. I changed my mindset and figured, why not try to be really entertaining instrumentally? – Brad Paisley
24. We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving. – Friedrich Nietzsche
25. I wake up every day and I think, I’m breathing! It’s a good day.   –   Eve Ensler
26. We male a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.      Winston Churchill
27. Sometimes we fall in love with somebody who will probably never love us, for reasons having nothing to do with us but with their own mindset, their chemistry. - Helen Fisher
28. We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think, Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It’s a death trap. – Anthony Hopkins
29. Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. - Swami Vivekananda
30. I think that nothing is impossible when you want to fulfill a dream. A lot of people will tell you that you can’t do it, that you don;t have what it takes, but if it is in your heart and you feel it, there is nothing that will stop you. It is like the sun – you can’t block it; it will shine regardless, if that is what you want. – Thalia
31. You must do the things you think you cannot do. – Eleanor Roosevelt
32. I hate the fact that people think “compromise” is a dirty word. – Barbara Bush
33. When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise. – William Makepeace Thackeray
34. My dad and I would watch Ray Lewis a lot. His tenacity, and he was everywhere. I wanted that mindset, too. – Malik Jackson
35. Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking. – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
36. When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love. – Marcus Aurelius
37. If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that’s a full day. That’s a heck of a day. You do that seven days a week, you’re going to have something special. – Jim Valvano
38. If you don’t think your anxiety, depression, sadness and stress impact your physical health, think again. All of these emotions trigger chemical reactions in your body, which can lead to inflammation and a weakened immune system. learn how to cope with a sweet friend.  There will always be dark days. – Kris Carr
39. Don’t limit yourself. many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. what you believe, remember, you can achieve. – Mary Kay Ash
40. Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do. – Pope John XXIII

Everyday Life Growth Mindset Quotes

41. 41. Success is really about your mindset. – F. Gary Gray
42. In order to understand the mindset of a boxer; I needed to become a boxer myself. – Edgar Ramirez
43. Living with fear stops us taking risks, and if you don’t go out on the branch, you’re never going to get the best fruit. – Sarah Parish
44. Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving. – James E. Faust
45. There is no passion to be found playing small – In settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living. – Nelson Mandela
46. Football is football and talent is talent. But the mindset of your team makes all the difference. – Robert Griffin III
47. Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are. – John Wooden
48. The best design work is really done when you spend more time with people, when you have the opportunity to be of the same mindset and the same incentives as the founder of the business. – Yves Behar
49. I learned that we do anything, but we can’t do everything…. at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything. – Dan Millman
50. One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today. - Dale Carnegie

Gratitude Growth Mindset Quotes 

51. Thank you for life, and all the little ups and downs that make it worth living.  Travis Barker
52. Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. – Jim Rohn
53. When you love and accept yourself, when you know who really cares about you, and when you learn from your mistakes, then you stop caring about what people who don’t know you think. – Beyonce Knowles
54. Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another. – Napoleon Hill
55. I think my mindset and my approach is to hit the ball hard, whether it be first pitch or wok the count. – Andrew Benintendi
56. Success is not a destination, but the road that you’re on. Being successful means that you’re working hard and walking your walk every day. You can only live your dream by working hard towards it. That’s living the dream. – Marlon Wayans
57. Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it. – Oprah Winfrey
58. I have so many friends who just have big dreams, and they work their butts off every day to try to make these things happen, and so long as we keep that mindset and remember others, I think we’ll be good. – Jennette McCurdy
59. I do have that mindset – That most good art comes from some turmoil, from someone trying to come to some equilibrium, or come up and get a breath. - Ben Folds
60. The ego is only an illusion, but a very influential one. Letting the ego-illusion become your identity can prevent you from knowing your true self. Ego, the false idea of believing that you are what you have or what you do, is a backwards way of assessing and living life. – Wayne Dyer

Growth Mindset Quotes from Mindful People

61. I think of myself not as a dreamer, but as a dream chaser. – Sarah Brightman
62. Just be confident. I think confidence is the most attractive part of a person.  Curtis Jackson
63. The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
64. We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts Live; they travel far. – Swami Vivekananda
65. Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty. – Albert Einstein
66. You can teach all the other stuff, you know. You can teach shooting the ball, you can teach having a good touch… passing and what not, but when you get out there on the field. It's just a mindset you need to go into the game with. – Freddy Adu
67. We will be more successful in all our endeavors if we can let go of the habit of running all the time, and take little pauses to relax and re-center ourselves. And we’ll also have a lot more joy in living. – Thich Nhat Hanh
68. I think for me, the thing that gets me in the rights mindset is just watching something funny, something lights, something that makes me feel good. Regardless of what it is – when you feel good, when you feel upbeat, creativity flows! - Derek Hough
69. Everyone is looking for the sure thing. They are looking to hedge their bet. They think the way to do that is to go with a proven quantity, a remake of something you have already seen. That is their mindset. – Leonard Maltin
70. My mindset is of the person who is still unsure whether they have enough money in their ATM to go to another bar. I lived that way when I was unemployed. when I was a snowboard instructor, and when I was at NYU. A lot of personality is stuck in those five years, and I don’t know if that’s ever gonna change. -  Dennis Crowley

Self-awareness Growth Mindset Quotes

71. Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.
72. I’ve always been of the mindset that you will be defined by the things you say “no” to because it’s so easy to say “yes”. – Paul Sparks
73. Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations. – Samuel Ullman
74. If you want to have a life that is worth living, a life that expresses your deepest feelings and emotions and cares and dreams, you have to fight for it. – Alice Walker
75. People gossip. People are insecure, so they talk about other people so that they won’t be talked about. They point out flaws in other people to make them feel good about themselves. I think at any age or any social class, that’s present. – Blake Lively
76. I realized that if my thoughts immediately affect my body, I should be careful about what I think. Now if I get angry, I ask myself why I feel that way. If I can find the source of my anger, I can turn that negative energy into something positive. 
77. Culture is about the mindset of people, and we are very happy to have a strong combined mindset of people. – Uday Kotak
78. It takes a different mindset to be successful in anything; that’s why there’s not a lot of super duper successful people, because it’s guys I know who may be ten times more talented than me, but they don’t work as hard. – Rico Love
79. Fear and its accompanying emotional reactions have become part of the public mindset. Such reactions, while often legitimate, are also being exploited with increasing frequency for political ends. – Tariq Ramadan
80. I think it’s important to find the little things in everyday life that make you happy. – Paula Cole

Overcome Obstacles Growth Mindset Quotes 

81. Don’t worry what people say or what people think. Be yourself. – Brett Hull
82. Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success. – David Joseph Schwartz
83. We go into the studio with the mindset of simply wanting to make something great. – Rozonda Thomas
84. I think that we all do heroic things, but hero is not a noun, it’s a verb. - Robert Downey Jr.
85. Each game we play, every game is a championship-game mindset. – Dan Quinn
86. Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. – A. A. Milne
87. I’ve always wanted to be the best in the world as a baseball player, so when I started to think about opening a business, it was with that mindset. – Curt Schilling
88. Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is. People lose their capacity to walk, run, travel, think, and experience life. I realized how important it is to use the time I have. – Viggo Mortensen
89. I think it’s important to get your surroundings as well as yourself into a positive state – Meaning surround yourself with positive people, not the kind who are negative and jealous of everything you do. – Heidi Klum

90. There is something about the mindset of scientists that is different – an awareness of uncertainty, modeling, proof. – Joseph Stiglitz
91. My whole mindset in training is to be explosive and fast, and I try not to get too big and bulky. – Kris Humphries
92. If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought. – Peace Pilgrim
93. You have to enjoy life. Always be surrounded by people who have a nice conversation. There are so many positive things to think about.  – Sophia Loren
94. I think you need to go through some stuff to really appreciate life and understand what it means to persevere, overcome and have faith. I think those tough times make you a stronger person. – Judith Hill
95. Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy. - Dale Carnegie
96. You just don’t luck into things as much as you’d like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it’s friendships or opportunities. – Barbara Bush
97. I think the most important thing in life is self-love, because if you don’t have self-love, and respect for everything about your own body, your own soul, your own capsule, then how can you have an authentic relationship with anyone else? - Shailene Woodley
98. You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work his own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful. – Marie Curie

Motivational Quotes to Encourage Growth Mindset

99. My mindset is the same every game.- Kawhi Leonard
100. Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.   Ray Bradbury
101. God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. – Voltaire
102. Beauty has so many forms, and I think the most beautiful thing is confidence and loving yourself. – Kiesza
103. If you go deeper and deeper into your own heart, you’ll be living in a world with less fear, isolation and loneliness. – Sharon Salzberg
104. Anyone that goes to battle goes to battle knowing the mindset and tactics of their enemies. – Brad Thor
105. Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you’re living?  - Bob Marley
106. Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.  Denis Waitley
107. Now that I’m doing all these big competitions, I’ve learned to control my nerves and control my mindset, and I think that’s where the maturity comes in. - Laurie Hernandez
108. Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don;t wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it’s at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored. – Earl Nigthingale