Carol S. Dweck Quotes

Everything is a learning lesson, good and bad, so I am happy with the way things are, and I learned from everything negative. I am in a great space now, so I wouldn't change a thing!

For me, possibility, progress, growth, those things are very.. they feel very good. It doesn't usually come with negativity. I don't really mind sucking at something as long as I'm getting a little bit better at it along the way.

I think it's important for people to know that it's okay to feel like you're not better as long as you keep trying.

Don't waste your time on jealousy; sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. The race is long, and in the end, it's only with yourself. Remember compliments you receive, forget the insults; if you succeed in doing this, tell me how.

I never thought I'd be successful. It seems in my own mind that in everything I've undertaken I've never quite made the mark. But I've always been able to put disappointments aside. Success isn't about the end result; it's about what you learn along the way.

Have an open mind and an open heart. I'm not this bad person. I'm just doing what I have to do.

If you grow yourself to become a successful person, in strength of character and mind, you will naturally be successful in anything and everything you do.

I think I grew up, stopped worrying about what people thought of me, and whether things were going to turn out OK. I'm concentrating on doing the best work I can do and letting it go at that.

You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.

It's taken me a long time to become the person I am, for all the ugliness to fall away. The rotten flesh is gone, and the seed is there. I can touch that now.

I went through the extremes of amazing notoriety and also the dreaded things that you never thought you'd have to live through. Not everything works the way you want it to, but if I sit back and think, 'Am I happy about this?' Yeah. I wouldn't have done anything any better.

I'll never be a non-stumbler. I'll be a forgiven stumbler, but never a non-stumbler.

I'm trying to make myself better. But I don't regret anything that I've gone through, because it makes me who I am.

What you come to discover is, it isn't how you get there, it's that you get there. If that's what it took to get me where I'm at today, so be it.

I wouldn't change anything. I've made mistakes, but thanks to those mistakes, I've learned.

I don't look upon my divorces as mistakes. Those marriages were right for the Bess that made that decision at that time.

I want people to learn from me, see I'm human, and understand that I make mistakes just like they do, but it doesn't have to consume you. You've got to walk through the raindrops, and that's totally what I am trying to do.

My songs are always about overcoming things, whether it's breaking up with a guy or just trying to be happy. They're always about being better.

I learned that you go through things, you deal with them and that's what empowers you and ultimately makes you a happy person.

I had my share of issues, but now, it's something that's made me who I am and no complaints.

Difficulty creates the opportunity for self-reflection and compassion.

It's been hard, but I've finally come to the realization that it's okay to not be perfect.

It's not humanly possible for anyone not to go through changes. Change is a constant in everyone's life, even in mine. I have enjoyed the change at every stage of my life.

Failure is success if we learn from it.