The growth mindset is a miraculous concept.
Albeit, an obscure one…
On the surface, it’s straightforward enough to understand that a growth mindset liberates us and a fixed mindset holds us back.
If only it were that simple to put into practice.
What’s easier to practice is taking in the thoughts and words of those who seem to have mastered the art of the growth mindset.
Growth Mindset Quotes That Will Help Fulfill Your Potential
Choose your favourite quotes from below to help you break free from the fixed mindset and start to develop a mindset of growth in everything you do.
“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.” – Henry Ford
“Knowing what is and knowing what can be are not the same thing.” – Ellen Langer
“There is always a step small enough from where we are to get us to where we want to be. If we take that small step, there’s always another we can take, and eventually a goal thought to be too far to reach becomes achievable.” – Ellen Langer
“Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.” – Charles Swindoll
“Believe you can and you are half way there.” – Theodore Roosevelt
“What you get by reaching your destination is not nearly as important as what you will become by reaching your destination.” – Unknown
“The very best thing you can do for the whole world is to make the most of yourself.” – Wallace Wattles
“Be so busy improving yourself that you have no time to criticize others.” – Chetan Bhagat
“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.” – Samuel Johnson
“Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m Possible!’.” – Audrey Hepburn
“The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.” – Albert Ellis
“Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill
“If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it’s OK. But you’ve got to shoot for something. A lot of people don’t even shoot.” – Confucius
“Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think!” – Albert Einstein
“Always do what you are afraid of doing.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.” – Confucius
“Challenges are what make life interesting. Overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” – Joshua J. Marine
“All things are difficult before they are easy.” – Thomas Fuller
“Certainty is a cruel mindset. It hardens our minds against possibility.” – Ellen Langer
“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity!” – Albert Einstein
“Improve by 1% a day, and in just 70 days, you’re twice as good.” – Alan Weiss
“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.” – Benjamin Barber
“Don’t worry about failure. Worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try.” – Sherman Finesilver
“The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem.” – Jack Sparrow
“Vision is not enough. It must be combined with venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps; we must also step up the stairs.” – Vaclac Havel
“Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make a mistake.” – Elbert Hubbard
“Test scores and measures of achievement tell you where a student is, but they don’t tell you where a student could end up.” – Carol Dweck
“Unless you’re willing to have a go, fail miserably, and have another go, success won’t happen.” – Phillip Adams
“It is hard to fail but it is worse never have tried to succeed.” – Theodore Roosevelt
“Just because you haven’t found your talent yet doesn’t mean you don’t have one.” – Kermit the Frog
“If parents want to give their children a gift, the best thing they can do is to teach their children to love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort, and keep on learning.” – Carol Dweck
“Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.” – Winston Churchill
“If you don’t give anything, don’t expect anything. Success is not coming to you, you must come to it.” – Marva Collins
“The problem human beings face is not that we aim too high and fail, but that we aim too low and succeed.” – Michelangelo
“History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.” – B.C. Forbes
“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.” – J. W. Goethe
“I am always doing what I cannot do yet. In order to learn how to do it.” – Vincent Van Gogh
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you did not do than by the ones you did.” – Mark Twain
“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning to sail my ship.” – Little Women
“If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere.” – Frank A. Clark
“There are three musts that hold us back: I must do well. You must treat me well. And the world must be easy.” – Albert Ellis
“You have not failed unless you have quit trying.” – Gordon B. Hinckley
“We find comfort among those who agree with us, and growth among those who don’t.” – Frank A. Clark
“May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.” – Nelson Mandela
“Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.” – Henry Ford
“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.” – Sidney A. Friedman
“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.” – H.W. Arnold
“Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure.” – Thomas Watson
“The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it’s the same problem you had last year.” – John Foster Dulles
“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.” – John Wooden