1. “People with the growth mindset know that it takes time for potential to flower.” – Carol S. Dweck
2. “Instead of letting the experience define him, he took control of it.” – Carol S. Dweck
3. “All of these people had character. None of them thought they were special people, born with the right to win. They were people who worked hard, who learned how to keep their focus under pressure, and who stretched beyond their ordinary abilities when they had to.” – Carol S. Dweck
4. “Now consider the idea that they just used better strategies, taught themselves more, practiced harder, and worked their way through obstacles. You can do that, too, if you want to.” – Carol S. Dweck
5. “Wow, that’s a really good score. You must have worked really hard.” – Carol S. Dweck
6. “We also know that there is a mindset that helps people cope well with setbacks, points them to good strategies, and leads them to act in their best interest.” – Carol S. Dweck
7. “This knowledge that you might have to really reorganize and redefine yourself and build new skills is really important.” – Carol S. Dweck
8. “The great teachers believe in the growth of the intellect and talent, and they are fascinated with the process of learning.” – Carol S. Dweck
9. “When people with the fixed mindset opt for success over growth, what are they really trying to prove? That they’re special. Even superior. ” – Carol S. Dweck
10. “You have to work hardest for the things you love most.” – Carol S. Dweck
11. “The mindset ideas were developed as a counter to the self-esteem movement of blanketing everyone with praise, whether deserved or not.” – Carol S. Dweck
12. “Some of the world’s best athletes didn’t start out being that hot. If you have a passion for a sport, put in the effort and see.” – Carol S. Dweck
13. “They may appreciate endowment, but they admire effort, for no matter what your ability is, effort is what ignites that ability and turns it into accomplishment” – Carol S. Dweck
14. “ Teaching is a wonderful way to learn.” – Carol S. Dweck
15. “The hallmark of successful people is that they are always stretching themselves to learn new things.” – Carol S. Dweck
16. “Unproductive effort is never a good thing.” – Carol S. Dweck
17. “Before we judge, let’s remember that effort isn’t quite everything and that all effort is not created equal.” – Carol S. Dweck
18. “And this is part of the fixed mindset. Effort is for those who don’t have the ability.” – Carol S. Dweck
19. “We can choose partner, make friends, hire people who make us feel faultless. But think about it – do you never want to grow? Next time you’re tempted to surround yourself with worshippers, go to church.” – Carol S. Dweck
20. “I start sentences with ands and buts. I end sentences with prepositions.” – Carol S. Dweck
21. “Your failures and misfortunes don’t threaten other people’s self-esteem. Ego-wise, it’s easy to be sympathetic to someone in need. It’s your assets and your successes that are problems for people who derive their self-esteem from being superior.” – Carol S. Dweck
22. “Character, heart, the mind of a champion. It’s what makes great athletes and it’s what comes from the growth mindset with its focus on self-development, self-motivation, and responsibility.” – Carol S. Dweck
23. “If you’re somebody when you’re successful, what are you when you’re unsuccessful?” – Carol S. Dweck
24. “When people believe their basic qualities can be developed, failures may still hurt, but failures don’t define them. And if abilities can be expanded – if change and growth are possible – then there are still many paths to success.” – Carol S. Dweck
25. “The growth mindset allows people to value what they’re doing regardless of the outcome.” – Carol S. Dweck
26. “Andrew Carnegie once said, “I wish to have as my epitaph: ‘Here lies a man who was wise enough to bring into his service men who knew more than he.” – Carol S. Dweck
27. “Success is about being your best self, not about being better than others; failure is an opportunity, not a condemnation; effort is the key to success.” – Carol S. Dweck
28. “If you don’t give anything, don’t expect anything. Success is not coming to you, you must come to it.” – Carol S. Dweck
29. “Mistakes are so interesting. Here’s a wonderful mistake. Let’s see what we can learn from it.” – Carol S. Dweck
30. “Skills and achievement come through commitment and effort.” – Carol S. Dweck
31. “For them it’s not about immediate perfection. It’s about learning something over time: confronting a challenge and making progress.” – Carol S. Dweck
32. “In fact, studies show that people are terrible at estimating their abilities.” – Carol S. Dweck
33. “Real self-confidence is not reflected in a title, an expensive suit, a fancy car, or a series of acquisitions. It is reflected in your mindset: your readiness to grow.” – Carol S. Dweck
34. “The whole point of marriage is to encourage your partner’s development and have them encourage yours.” – Carol S. Dweck
35. “Groupthink can also happen when a fixed-mindset leader punishes dissent. People may not stop thinking critically, but they stop speaking up.” – Carol S. Dweck
36. “to see failure not as a sign of stupidity but as lack of experience and skill. Your” – Carol S. Dweck
37. “Think about effort as a positive constructive force, not as a big drag.” – Carol S. Dweck
38. “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 S. Dweck
39. “I looked for themes and underlying principles across lectures,” and “I went over mistakes until I was certain I understood them.” They were studying to learn, not just to ace the test. And, actually, this was why they got higher grades – not because they were smarter or had a better background in science.” – Carol S. Dweck
40. “everyone can change and grow through application and experience.” – Carol S. Dweck
41. “it’s not always the people who start out the smartest who end up the smartest.” – Carol S. Dweck
42. “When people are in a growth mindset, the stereotype doesn’t disrupt their performance. The growth mindset takes the teeth out of the stereotype and makes people better able to fight back. They don’t believe in permanent inferiority. And if they are behind – well, then they’ll work harder and try to catch up.” – Carol S. Dweck
43. “You can’t just declare that you have a growth mindset. Growth mindset is hard.” – Carol S. Dweck
44. “In one world, failure is about having a setback. Getting a bad grade. Losing a tournament. Getting fired. Getting rejected. It means you’re not smart or talented. In the other world, failure is about not growing. Not reaching for the things you value. It means you’re not fulfilling your potential.” – Carol S. Dweck
45. “If you had to choose, which would it be? Loads of success and validation or lots of challenge?” – Carol S. Dweck
46. “You’re in charge of your mind. You can help it grow by using it in the right way.” – Carol S. Dweck
47. “People in a growth mindset don’t just seek challenge, they thrive on it. The bigger the challenge, the more they stretch. And nowhere can it be seen more clearly than in the world of sports. You can just watch people stretch and grow.” – Carol S. Dweck
48. “This growth mindset is based on the belief that your basic qualities are things you can cultivate through your efforts. Although people may differ in every which way – in their initial talents and aptitudes, interests, or temperaments – everyone can change and grow through application and experience.” – Carol S. Dweck
49. “People with a fixed mindset were only interested when the feedback reflected on their ability. Their brain waves showed them paying close attention when they were told whether their answers were right or wrong.” – Carol S. Dweck
50. “It’s for you to decide whether change is right for you right now. Maybe it is, maybe it isn’t. But either way, keep the growth mindset in your thoughts. Then, when you bump up against obstacles, you can turn to it. It will always be there for you, showing you a path into the future.” – Carol S. Dweck
51. “Your horse is only as fast as your brain. Every time you learn something, your horse will move ahead.” – Carol S. Dweck
52. “Don’t judge. Teach. It’s a learning process.” – Carol S. Dweck
53. “A no-effort relationship is a doomed relationship, not a great relationship. It takes work to communicate accurately and it takes work to expose and resolve conflicting hopes and beliefs. It doesn’t mean there is no “they lived happily ever after,” but it’s more like “they worked happily ever after.” – Carol S. Dweck
54. “What are the consequences of thinking that your intelligence or personality is something you can develop, as opposed to something that is a fixed, deep-seated trait?” – Carol S. Dweck
55. “Those with the growth mindset found setbacks motivating. They’re informative. They’re a wakeup call. ” – Carol S. Dweck
56. “Think of times other people outdid you and you just assumed that they were smarter or more talented. Now consider the idea that they just used better strategies, taught themselves more, practiced harder, and worked their way through obstacles. You can do that too, if you want to.” – Carol S. Dweck
57. “I derive just as much happiness from the process as from the results.” – Carol S. Dweck
58. “Even in the growth mindset, failure can be a painful experience. But it doesn’t define you. It’s a problem to be faced, dealt with, and learned from.” – Carol S. Dweck
59. “Only people with a growth mindset paid close attention to information that could stretch their knowledge. Only for them was learning a priority.” – Carol S. Dweck
60. “The idea that one evaluation can measure you forever is what creates the urgency for those with the fixed mindset. That’s why they must succeed perfectly and immediately. Who can afford the luxury of trying to grow when everything is on the line right now?” – Carol S. Dweck
61. “You can always substantially change how intelligent you are.” – Carol S. Dweck
62. “What allowed me to take that first step, to choose growth and risk rejection? In the fixed mindset, I had needed my blame and bitterness. It made me feel more righteous, powerful, and whole than thinking I was at fault. The growth mindset allowed me to give up the blame and move on. The growth mindset gave me a mother.” – Carol S. Dweck
63. “Becoming is better than being.” – Carol S. Dweck
64. “Beware of success. It can knock you into a fixed mindset:” – Carol S. Dweck
65. “Why seek out the tried and true, instead of experiences that will stretch you?” – Carol S. Dweck
66. “when you teach children to measure themselves from their success, they then measure themselves from their failure as well. Finally,” – Carol S. Dweck
67. “Genius is not enough; we need to get the job done.” – Carol S. Dweck
68. “More and more research is suggesting that, far from being simply encoded in the genes, much of personality is a flexible and dynamic thing that changes over the lifespan and is shaped by experience.” – Carol S. Dweck
69. “What did you learn today? What mistake did you make that taught you something? What did you try hard at today?” – Carol S. Dweck
70. “This student takes practice tests and then lies to him about her score. He is supposed to tutor her on what she doesn’t know, but she can’t tell him the truth about what she doesn’t know!” – Carol S. Dweck
71. “A growth mindset is belief you can develop abilities. ” – Carol S. Dweck
72. “Effort is one of those things that gives meaning to life. Effort means you care about something, that something is important to you and you are willing to work for it.” – Carol S. Dweck
73. “The best thing parents can do is to teach their children to love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort, and keep on learning.” – Carol S. Dweck
74. “There were two meanings to ability, not one: a fixed ability that needs to be proven, and a changeable ability that can be developed through learning.” – Carol S. Dweck
75. “Believing that your qualities are carved in stone—the fixed mindset—creates an urgency to prove yourself over and over. ” – Carol S. Dweck
76. “Teaching is a wonderful way to learn.” – Carol S. Dweck
77. “The students with growth mindset completely took charge of their learning and motivation.” – Carol S. Dweck
78. “People may start with different temperaments and different aptitudes, but it is clear that experience, training, and personal effort take them the rest of the way.” – Carol S. Dweck
79. “Salerno-Sonnenberg was terrified of losing DeLay. She finally decided that trying and failing — an honest failure — was better than the course she had been on.” – Carol S. Dweck
80. “No matter what your current ability is, effort is what ignites that ability and turns it into accomplishment. ” – Carol S. Dweck
81. “In the growth mindset, it’s almost inconceivable to want something badly, to think you have a chance to achieve it, and then do nothing about it. When it happens, the I could have been is heartbreaking, not comforting.” – Carol S. Dweck
82. “The other thing exceptional people seem to have is a special talent for converting life’s setbacks into future successes. ” – Carol S. Dweck
83. “Just because some people can do something with little or no training, it doesn’t mean that others can’t do it (and sometimes do it even better) with training.” – Carol S. Dweck
84. “Just because someone can do something with little or no training, it doesn’t mean that others can’t do it (and sometimes do it even better) with training.” – Carol S. Dweck
85. “We like to think of our champions and idols as superheroes who were born different from us. We don’t like to think of them as relatively ordinary people who made themselves extraordinary.” – Carol S. Dweck
86. “Yes, he was depressed, but he was coping the way people in the growth mindset tend to cope – with determination.” – Carol S. Dweck
87. “a genius who constantly wants to upgrade his genius.” – Carol S. Dweck
88. “Character, the sportswriters said. They know it when they see it—it’s the ability to dig down and find the strength even when things are going against you.” – Carol S. Dweck
89. “Create an organization that prizes the development of ability – and watch the leaders emerge.” – Carol S. Dweck
90. “In one world, effort is a bad thing. It, like failure, means you’re not smart or talented. If you were, you wouldn’t need effort. In the other world, effort is what makes you smart or talented.” – Carol S. Dweck
91. “mindset was more important than talent.” – Carol S. Dweck
92. “Picture your brain forming new connections as you meet the challenge and learn. Keep on going. ” – Carol S. Dweck
93. “It is not always people who start out the smartest who end up the smartest.” – Carol S. Dweck
94. “People in a fixed mindset often run away from their problems. If their life is flawed, then they’re flawed. It’s easier to make believe everything’s all right.” – Carol S. Dweck
95. “True self-confidence is “the courage to be open – to welcome change and new ideas regardless of their source.” – Carol S. Dweck
96. “Is there something in your past that you think measured you? A.” – Carol S. Dweck
97. “Everyone is a mixture of fixed and growth mindsets. You could have a predominant growth mindset in an area, but there can still be things that trigger you into a fixed mindset trait.” – Carol S. Dweck
98. “Failure is information-we label it failure, but it’s more like, ‘This didn’t work, I’m a problem solver, and I’ll try something else.’” – Carol S. Dweck
99. “Is there something you’ve always wanted to do but were afraid you weren’t good at? Make a plan to do it.” – Carol S. Dweck
100. “the view you adopt for yourself profoundly affects the way you lead your life. It can determine whether you become the person you want to be and whether you accomplish the things you value.” – Carol S. Dweck
101. “Actually, people with the fixed mindset expect ability to show up on its own, before any learning takes place.” – Carol S. Dweck
102. “Not only weren’t they discouraged by failure, they didn’t even think they were failing. They thought they were learning” – Carol S. Dweck
103. “To be successful in sports, you need to learn techniques and skills and practice them regularly.” – Carol S. Dweck
104. “More and more research is suggesting that, far from being simply encoded in the genes, much of personality is a flexible and dynamic thing that changes over the life span and is shaped by experience.” – Carol S. Dweck
105. “A company that cannot self-correct cannot thrive.” – Carol S. Dweck
106. “People with the growth mindset hoped for a different kind of partner. They said their ideal mate was someone who would: See their faults and help them to work on them. Challenge them to become a better person.” – Carol S. Dweck
107. “We like to think of our champions and idols as superheroes who were born different from us. We don’t like to think of them as relatively ordinary people who made themselves extraordinary.” – Carol S. Dweck
108. “This is hard. This is fun.” – Carol S. Dweck
109. “Another way people with the fixed mindset try to repair their self-esteem after a failure is by assigning blame or making excuses.” – Carol S. Dweck
110. “What eventually set him apart was his mindset and drive. He never stopped being the curious, tinkering boy looking for new challenges.” – Carol S. Dweck
111. “In a growth mindset, challenges are exciting rather than threatening. So rather than thinking, oh, I’m going to reveal my weaknesses, you say, wow, here’s a chance to grow.” – Carol S. Dweck
112. “With a fixed mindset, you’re so worried about how smart or talented you are, you don’t take on challenges. You don’t try new things.” – Carol S. Dweck
113. “Important achievements require a clear focus, all-out effort, and a bottomless trunk full of strategies. Plus allies in learning.” – Carol S. Dweck
114. “Choosing a partner is choosing a set of problems. There are no problem-free candidates.” – Carol S. Dweck
115. “Why hide deficiencies instead of overcoming them?” – Carol S. Dweck
116. “We don’t care about who you are, what you’re interested in, and what you can become. We don’t care about learning. We will love and respect you only if you go to Harvard.” – Carol S. Dweck
117. “What can I learn from this? What will I do next time I’m in this situation?” – Carol S. Dweck
118. “There’s an assumption,” he said, “that schools are for students’ learning. Well, why aren’t they just as much for teachers’ learning?” – Carol S. Dweck
119. “Many growth-minded people didn’t even plan to go to the top. They got there as a result of doing what they love. It’s ironic: The top is where the fixed-mindset people hunger to be, but it’s where many growth-minded people arrive as a by-product of their enthusiasm for what they do.” – Carol S. Dweck
120. “the mark of a champion is the ability to win when things are not quite right—when you’re not playing well and your emotions are not the right ones.” – Carol S. Dweck
121. “And what’s so heroic, they would say, about having a gift?” – Carol S. Dweck
122. “Why waste time proving over and over how great you are, when you could be getting better?” – Carol S. Dweck
123. “Instead of letting the experience define him, he took control of it.” – Carol S. Dweck