Top 32 Growth Mindset Dweck Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. The passion for stretching yourself and sticking to it, even (or especially) when it's not going well, is the hallmark of the growth mindset.
Carol S. Dweck
#4. 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
#5. I've struggled so much, growing up, with just feeling that my life is valid because it's not filled with these hyper-dramatic moments, and I think a lot of people of my generation feel that way. We're so inundated with hyper-drama that people crave everyday life.
Ellar Coltrane
#6. Fixed mindset makes you concerned with how you'll be judged; the growth mindset makes you concerned with improving.
Carol S. Dweck
#7. 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
#8. If you dazzle a man with green eyes, he'll be so hypnotized that he won't notice there is something inside the eyes spying on him.
Diane Setterfield
#9. When you enter a mindset, you enter a new world. In one world
the world of fixed traits
success is about proving you're smart or talented. Validating yourself. In the other
the world of changing qualities
it's about stretching yourself to learn something new. Developing yourself.
Carol S. Dweck
#10. The students with growth mindset completely took charge of their learning and motivation.
Carol S. Dweck
#11. Why seek out the tried and true, instead of experiences that will stretch you?
Carol S. Dweck
#12. There are no disasters, only opportunities. And, indeed, opportunities for fresh disasters.
Boris Johnson
#13. This growth mindset is based on the belief that your basic qualities are things you can cultivate through your efforts.
Carol S. Dweck
#14. The colour books great on her, but she Looks beautiful every day.
J. Lynn
#15. Math and science need to be made more hospitable places for women. And women need all the growth mindset they can get to take their rightful places in these fields.
Carol S. Dweck
#16. I actually got more attention from one episode of 'The Sopranos' than I did from two years of 'The L Word.'
Sarah Shahi
#17. Yes, he was depressed, but he was coping the way people in the growth mindset tend to cope - with determination.
Carol S. Dweck
#18. 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
#19. Finding #2: Those with the growth mindset found setbacks motivating. They're informative. They're a wake-up call.
Carol S. Dweck
#20. People with the growth mindset know that it takes time for potential to flower.
Carol S. Dweck
#22. Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.
Marcus Aurelius
#23. She makes tea by hand. Nettles, slippery elm, turmeric, cinnamon - my mother is a recipe for warm throats and belly laughs. Once she fell off a ladder when I was three. She says all she was worried about was my face as I watched her fall.
Sarah Kay
#24. When I was a child my mother would tell me that people lost soul in two ways: someone could take it from you, or you'd surrender it willingly.
Tarryn Fisher
#25. A society that does not recognise that each individual has values of his own which he is entitled to follow can have no respect for the dignity of the individual and cannot really know freedom.
Friedrich August Von Hayek
#26. 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
#27. When we are self-conscious, we cannot be wholly aware; we must throw ourselves out first. This throwing ourselves away is the act of creativity.
Madeleine L'Engle
#28. The more depressed people with the growth mindset felt, the more they took action to confront their problems, the more they made sure to keep up with their schoolwork, and the more they kept up with their lives. The worse they felt, the more determined they became!
Carol S. Dweck
#29. Are there situations where you get stupid - where you disengage your intelligence? Next time you're in one of those situations, get yourself into a growth mindset - think about learning and improvement, not judgment - and hook it back up.
Carol S. Dweck
#30. The growth mindset also doesn't mean everything that CAN be changed SHOULD be changed. We all need to accept some of our imperfections, especially the ones that don't really harm our lives or the lives of others.
Carol S. Dweck
#31. I couldn't imagine living in a state that didn't reach the ocean. It was a giant reset button. You could go to the edge of the land and see infinity and feel renewed.
Avery Sawyer
#32. For me, personality acting is not that interesting. I don't want to just be myself.
Lesley Manville
