Carol S. Dweck Quotes

Life and business is like the changing seasons. You cannot change the seasons, but you can change yourself. Therein lies the opportunity to live an extraordinary life, the opportunity to change yourself.

If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we will immediately feel overwhelmed.

I try my best to learn from other people's mistakes. I have a lot of respect for people who can change.

I think what breaks people is not adversity; what breaks people is thinking that tomorrow is going to be just like yesterday. That's what's numbing - if you think you can't change, you can't be better. And I didn't like that.

I always take criticism as a challenge. It's the way I've always looked at it.

When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.

I can only put myself in the process and try to learn through the process. Sometimes it will go well and sometimes it won't.

I learned there are ways to approach life. You can never change the events, but you can change the way you approach them.

It takes facing obstacles to grow strong enough to overcome them.

When you experience difficulty at work or in your life, instead of looking back on it as something that was really challenging, look at it and ask yourself, 'What wisdom did I learn from that?'

I am a person that likes to move on. I am the first to make mistakes in my life.

I feel like what's made me the player I am is always being willing to take the challenge.

If something is going on and you are struggling, embrace it. You are growing.

Win or lose, I always learn something.

You try something, it doesn't work, and maybe people even criticize you. In a fixed mindset, you say, 'I tried this, it's over.' In a growth mindset, you look for what you've learned.

Never assume that you're stuck with the way things are. Life changes, and so can you.

There's always room for improvement. I incorporate the lessons I learned from my mistakes and move forward.

No one rises above who he or she has been without first having fallen down. The best time - in fact, the only time - to make a real change in your life is in the moment of seeing the need for it. He who hesitates always gets lost in the hundred reasons why tomorrow is a better day to get started.

From success, you learn absolutely nothing. From failure and setbacks conclusions can be drawn. That goes for your private life as well as your career.

Leap and grow your wings on the way down

If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?

Nevertheless, the only way we can move from where we are now to where we would like to be is to accept where we are now.

By changing the way you do routine things you allow a new man to grow inside you.

All that I did," she said, "everything I tried to do. All for nothing." Nothing is done entirely for nothing, said the fox of dreams. Nothing is wasted. You are older, and you have made decisions, and you are not the fox you were yesterday. Take what you have learned, and move on.

F-A-I-L-I-N-G [is] Finding An Important Lesson, Inviting Needed Growth. So you don't actually fail, you find a better way to do whatever you're doing, and that's your ability, the truth of your core from past life experiences to where you are now in this life. It gives you the ability to be in your truth, without anything holding you down in a box that will never open.