75 Quotes to Encourage Growth Mindset

1. “Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” {George Bernard Shaw}
2. “Mindset {noun} a set of beliefs or ways of thinking that determines one’s behavior, outlook and mental attitude.
3. Once your mindset changes, everything on the outside will change along with it {Steve Maraboli}
4. Just because you haven’t found your talent, does not mean you don’t have one. {Kermit the Frog}
5. “Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think! {Albert Einstein}
6. I’m not going to tell you it’s going to be easy, I’m going to tell you it’s going to be worth it.
7. I am always doing what I cannot do yet. In order to learn how to do it. {Vincent Van Gogh}
8. Be so busing improving yourself that you have no time to criticize others. {Chetan Bhagat}
9. Sometimes what we call “failure” is really just that necessary struggle called learning.
10. Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time we fail. {Confucius}
11. Stop being scared of what could go wrong and start looking for what could go right!
12. Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it. {Charles Swindoll}
13. “It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.” {Confucius}
14. It’s not about being the best. It’s about being better than you were yesterday.
15. The one who falls and gets up is much stronger than the one who never falls.
16. “Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it when we use it.” {Ruth Gordon}
17. Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference. {Winston Churchill}
18. The person who does the work is the only one who learns. {Harry Wong}
19. May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears. {Nelson Mandela}
20. You have not failed unless you have quit trying. {Gordon B. Hinckley}
21. “Believe you can and you are half way there.” {Theodore Roosevelt}
22. If “plan a” does not work remember there are still 25 more letters!
23. If you quit once, it becomes a habit. Don’t quit! {Michael Jordan}
24. A comfort zone is a beautiful place but nothing ever grows there.
25. Celebrate every victory no matter how small. All progress counts.
26. “If at first you don’t succeed… you’re normal! {Kid President}
27. You are capable of so much more than you can even imagine.
28. “In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity!” {Albert Einstein}
29. Hard work outperforms talent when talent fails to work hard.
30. All things are difficult before they are easy. {Thomas Fuller}
31. We cannot control the wind, but… we can control the sail.
32. Everything you don’t know is something you can learn!
33. I do not fail, I succeed in finding out what does not work.
34. Learn to be a risk taker because there is more to gain.
35. Failure is not the opposite of success. It’s a part of it.
36. Failure is not the opposite of success it is a part of it!
37. Don’t let a failure be an ending. Make it a beginning.
38. I can keep going until I know it’s my best work!
39. Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.
40. Be the change you want to see in the world!
41. The expert in anything was once a beginner.
42. Going fast does not mean you are smarter!
43. Change your words. Change your mindset.
44. A good attitude is contagious. Pass it on!
45. I made an error so I’m going to try again!
46. There is no failing, only ways to improve.
47. Choose the challenge, not the easy way.
48. We only get stronger when it is difficult.
49. We learn from failure not from success.
50. You have to get in before you can win.
51. Mistakes are proof that you are trying.
52. Every mistake you make is progress.
53. Be better than you were yesterday.
54. Strive for progress, not perfection.
55. I learn. What’s your superpower?
56. Don’t give up until you are proud.
57. Mistakes are portals to discovery.
58. There is no failing, only feedback.
59. Keep trying and never give up!
60. FAIL: first attempt in learning.
61. Mistakes make a difference!
62. Get ready. Get set. Learn!
63. Bring on the challenges!
64. Practice makes perfect.
65. Mistakes help us learn.
66. Mindset is everything.
67. Mistakes are beautiful.
68. I cannot do this yet!
69. Shoot for the stars!
70. Believe in yourself!
71. Believe in yourself!
72. The power of yet…
73. Never stop trying!
74. Just don’t quit.
75. Never give up.

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