Carol S. Dweck Quotes

Complacency is a continuous struggle that we all have to fight.

I'm less Pollyanna now. That's probably healthy.

Not to unlearn what you have learned is the most necessary kind of learning.

For sure, some things have changed with the way I feel about things, like my mindset and everything. But you always learn every year about your mindset and what works for you.

Personal growth is not a matter of learning new information but of unlearning old limits.

Wherever you are, at whatever age, you're only a thought away from changing your life.

We do not want to be beginners. But let us be convinced of the fact that we will never be anything else but beginners, all our life!

It's vital to be growing through your life rather than going through your life. The object is not to change other people or situations; it's to do the inner work they stimulate.

Don't just write a to-do list write a to-be list.

The mind doth shape itself to its own wants, and can bear all things.

You are different from the really great man in only one thing: The great man, at one time, also was a very little man, but he developed one important ability: he learned to see where he was small in his thinking, and actions. Under the pressure of some task which was dear to him he learned better and better to sense the threat that comes from his smallness and pettiness. The great man, then, knows when and in what he is a little man.

We're not really good at knowing what we want, and we are quick to say 'this sucks'. That's where the opportunity lies.

The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.

Rich people constantly learn and grow. Poor people think they already know.

I kept telling myself this word, process. Focus on my process, don't care about the result.

We can't be in survival mode. We have to be in growth mode.

The way to develop inner peace through meditation begins with the recognition that the destroyer of inner peace is not some external foe, but is within us. Therefore, the solution is within us too. However, that inner change does not take place immediately in the way that we switch on a light, but takes weeks, months and years.

Some positive persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so; But you with pleasure own your errors past, And make each day a critique on the last.

If you want to amend your errors, you must begin by amending your philosophy.

The solution is to change from the negative to the positive and one way to do that is to remember that failure is an event - it is not a person. Another way is to understand that your child might make a mistake, but the child is not a mistake

I feel very lucky to be making good work still. The confidence of youth, or that sort of competitiveness you get when you're 22 or 23, the impatience - that's probably been tempered. Hopefully I'm slightly better company.

Every change in human attitude must come through internal understanding and acceptance. Man is the only known creature who can reshape and remould himself by altering his attitude.

Future success is dependent upon and inseparable from the consciousness out of which the actions emanate

The thing that will make the biggest difference to your business, your bank account, your health and your relationships in the next 12 months is your philosophy

Perspective. You start looking at things differently, like everything's not so important. You don't take things so personally. Everyone changes, becomes better people. We all should get that chance.