Growth Mindset Quotes
Growth Mindset Quotes are powerful! Discover these 50 growth mindset quotes, sayings and phrases to inspire colleagues, students, teachers and friends.
Why do some people get up after failure and others stay down? That’s a question Prof. Carol Dweck wanted to answer.
The results of her research show it’s al related to our mindset. A growth mindset rather than talent defines future success.
Therefore, to succeed, we need a growth mindset, not a fixed mindset. We need a mindset that sees challenges as opportunities for growth and expansion.
And the good thing is: we can develop a growth mindset. As Carol Dweck says in Mindset, The Psychology of Success: “Picture your brain forming new connections as you meet the challenge and learn. Keep on going.”
To help develop a powerful growth mindset I have collected a list of powerful mindset quotes. Whether you are a teacher looking for growth mindset phrases for students or looking for a bit of inspiration for yourself, I hope you find them motivational and inspirational.
Growth Mindset Quotes
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed no hope at all.
Dale Carnegie
Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance.”-Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson
It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.
Confucius
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
Margaret Thatcher
Dreams don’t work unless you do.
John C. Maxwell
Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure.
Thomas Watson
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
Theodore Roosevelt
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
Albert Einstein
Challenges are what make life interesting. Overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
Joshua J. Marine
Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
George Bernard Shaw
Growth Mindset Quotes 11 – 20
Happiness depends on your mindset and attitude.
Roy T. Bennett
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
I try to work on all aspects of my game, whether it be run, pass. I think you can never stop growing, and I definitely take that mindset. You’ve just got to keep on grinding.
D’Brickashaw Furguson
No matter what, people grow. If you chose not to grow, you’re staying in a small box with a small mindset. People who win go outside of that box. It’s very simple when you look at it.
Kevin Hart
I think anything is possible if you have the mindset and the will and desire to do it and put the time in.
Roger Clemens
My dad encouraged us to fail. Growing up, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn’t have something, he would be disappointed. It changed my mindset at an early age that failure is not the outcome, failure is not trying. Don’t be afraid to fail.
Sara Blakely
It’s sort of a mental attitude about critical thinking and curiosity. It’s about mindset of looking at the world in a playful and curious and creative way.
Adam Savage
Once your mindset changes, everything on the outside will change along with it.
Steve Maraboli
Leadership is a mindset that shifts from being a victim to creating results. Any one of us can demonstrate leadership in our work and within our lives.
Robin S. Sharma
Eliminate the mindset of CAN’T! Because you can do anything!
Tony Horton
Growth Mindset Quotes 21 – 30
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.
Henry Ford
Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Thomas Edison
Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill
Most people never run far enough on the first wind to find out they’ve got a second. Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
William James
Before the beginning of brilliance, there must be great chaos. Before a brilliant person begins something great, they must look foolish in the crowd.
Fu His
Man’s main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is.
Erich Fromm
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could … Tomorrow is a new day; begin itwell and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The problem human beings face is not that we aim too high and fail, but that we aim too low and succeed.
Michelangelo
We must get our hearts broken sometimes. This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So sail away from the safe harbor. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Mark Twain
Growth Mindset Quotes 31 – 40
We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced.
Malala Yousafzai
Other women who are killing it should motivate you, thrill you, challenge you and inspire you.
Taylor Swift
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
Mae Jemison
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
Amelia Earhart
How you gone win when you ain’t right within.
Lauryn Hill
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
Eleanor Roosevelt
You’ve always had the power my dear, you just had to learn it for yourself.
The Wizard of Oz
Don’t be the girl who fell. Be the girl who got back up.
Janette Stanley
If you don’t like something change it; if you can’t change it, change the way you think about it.
Mary Engelbreit
I know for sure that what we dwell on is what we become.
Oprah Winfrey
Growth Mindset Quotes 41 – 50
Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it.
Andy Rooney
The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.
Justin von Goethe
I do not know the word ‘quit.’ Either I never did, or I have abolished it.
Susan Butcher
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Gandhi
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
Albert Einstein
Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
George Orwell
Passion is the genesis of genius.
Tony Robbins
It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
J. K. Rowling
Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on.
Maxwell Maltz
Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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