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Growth Mindset Quotes

"It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure."
Bill Gates
"If you’re afraid to fail, then you’re probably going to fail."
Kobe Bryant
"Once you know what failure feels like, determination chases success."
Kobe Bryant
"When we are saying this cannot be accomplished, this cannot be done, then we are short-changing ourselves. My brain, it cannot process failure. It will not process failure. Because if I have to sit there and face myself and tell myself ‘you are a failure,’"
Kobe Bryant
"There’s nothing truly to be afraid of, when you think about it, because I’ve failed before, and I woke up the next morning, and I’m okay."
Kobe Bryant
"If you don’t succeed at first, there’s no need for the F word (Failure). Pick yourself up and try, try again."
Richard Branson
"You never know with these things when you’re trying something new what can happen. This is all experimental."
Richard Branson
"And obviously, from our own personal point of view, the principal challenge is a personal challenge."
Richard Branson
"Recognize how every moment of our journey is an important part of the growth of our soul."
Muhammad Ali
"When life puts you in touchy situations, don’t say “Why Me?” Just say “Try Me.”"
Dwayne Johnson
"You’re always learning. The problem is, sometimes you stop and think you understand the world. This is not correct. The world is always moving. You never reach the point where you can stop making an effort."
Paulo Coelho
"Learning never exhausts the mind."
Leonardo da Vinci
"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."
Michael Jordan
"I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it."
Vincent Van Gogh
"I like the challenge of trying different things and wondering whether it’s going to work or whether I’m going to fall flat on my face."
Johnny Depp
"The first step is you have to say that you can."
Will Smith
"The separation of talent and skill is one of the greatest misunderstood concepts for people who are trying to excel, who have dreams, who want to do things. Talent you have naturally. Skill is only developed by hours and hours and hours of beating on your "
Will Smith
"If you only do things where you know the answer in advance, your company goes away."
Jeff Bezos
"If you decide that you’re going to do only the things you know are going to work, you’re going to leave a lot of opportunity on the table."
Jeff Bezos
"Staying in Day 1 requires you to experiment patiently, accept failures, plant seeds, protect saplings, and double down when you see customer delight."
Jeff Bezos