Carol Dweck growth mindset quotes inspire millions. They also provide guidance for parents raising children. 

There's a vast contrast between a fixed mindset vs. a growth mindset.

Carol Dweck serves as the Lewis and Virginia Eaton Professor of Psychology at Stanford University. 

Prior to joining Stanford, she’s served at Columbia University, Harvard University and the University of Illinois. She earned her Ph.D. in Psychology from Yale University.

She’s the author of the best-selling book - Mindset: The New Psychology of Success.

We're separated the Carol Dweck mindset quotes into two sets: 

The first set of quotes is to help you take charge of your mind developing the right mindset - not a fixed mindset. It compiles some of her best quotes to help those who want to improve their own growth mindset. Her motivational quotes will inspire you.

The second set of quotes may require a mindset change for parents raising children. These quotes are a terrific starting point regarding how parents view test scores, hard work and how they recognize important achievements to help their children build true self-confidence.

Carol Dweck Growth Mindset Quotes

#1 “Becoming is better than being.”

#2 “The view you adopt for yourself profoundly affects the way you lead your life.”

#3 “In the fixed mindset, everything is about the outcome. If you fail or if you’re not the best, it’s all been wasted. The growth mindset allows people to value what they’re doing regardless of the outcome. They’re tackling problems, charting new courses, working on important issues.”

#4 “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.”

#5 “No matter what your ability is, effort is what ignites that ability and turns it into accomplishment.”

#6 “I don't mind losing as long as I see improvement or I feel I've done as well as I possibly could.”

#7 “If you don't give anything, don't expect anything. Success is not coming to you, you must come to it.”

#8 “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.”

#9 “Don't judge. Teach. It's a learning process.”

#10 “The growth mindset says all of these things can be developed. All - you, your partner, and the relationship are capable of growth and change.”

#11 “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.”

#12 “Every day presents you with ways to grow and to help the people you care about grow.” 

#13 “Those with the growth mindset found setbacks motivating. They're informative. They're a wake-up call”

#14 “Exceptional people convert life's setbacks into future successes.”

#15 “Fixed mindset makes you concerned with how you'll be judged; the growth mindset makes you concerned with improving.”

#16 “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.”

#17 “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.'”

#18 “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.”

#19 “I derive just as much happiness from the process as from the results.”

#20 “Create an organization that prizes the development of ability-and watch the leaders emerge.”

#21 “Most often people believe that the ‘gift’ is the ability itself. Yet what feeds it is that constant, endless curiosity and challenge seeking.”

#22 “Important achievements require a clear focus, all-out effort, and a bottomless trunk full of strategies.”

#23 “John Wooden, the legendary basketball coach, says you aren’t a failure until you start to blame. What he means is that you can still be in the process of learning from your mistakes until you deny them.” 

#24 “Your failures and misfortunes don't threaten other people. It's your assets and your successes that are problems for people who derive their self-esteem from being superior.”

#25 It had to be a person with a fixed mindset who coined the phrase “Revenge is sweet because people with the growth mindset have little taste for it.”

#26 “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. 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 rowing. Not reaching for the things you value. It means you’re not fulfilling your potential. 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. You have a choice. Mindsets are just beliefs. They’re powerful beliefs, but they’re just something in your mind, and you can change your mind.”

#27 ”Chose executives on the basis of "runway," their capacity for growth.”

#28 True self-confidence is “the courage to be open - to welcome change and new ideas regardless of their source.” 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.”

#29 “A company that cannot self-correct cannot thrive.”

#30 “Your horse is only as fast as your brain. Every time you learn something, your horse will move ahead.”

#31 “Teaching is a wonderful way to learn.” 

#32 “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.”

#33 “Believing that your qualities are carved in stone-the fixed mindset-creates an urgency to prove yourself over and over.”

#34 “Skills and achievement come through commitment and effort.”

#35 “A fixed ability that needs to be proven, and a changeable ability that can be developed through learning.”

#36 “People with the growth mindset know that it takes time for potential to flower.”

#37 “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.”

#38 “Choosing a partner is choosing a set of problems. There are no problem-free candidates.”

#39 “Everyone has a role model, someone who pointed the way at a critical moment in their lives.”

#40 “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.”

#41 “Picture your brain forming new connections as you meet the challenge and learn. Keep on going.”

#42 “Change can be tough, but I’ve never heard anyone say it wasn’t worth it.”

#43 “Why seek out the tried and true, instead of experiences that will stretch you?”

#44 “Why waste time proving over and over how great you are, when you could be getting better? Why hide deficiencies instead of overcoming them? Why look for friends or partners who will just shore up your self-esteem instead of ones who will also challenge you to grow? And why seek out the tried and true, instead of experiences that will stretch you? 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. This is the mindset that allows people to thrive during some of the most challenging times in their lives.” 

#45 “The whole point of marriage is to encourage your partner's development and have them encourage yours.” 

Carol Dweck Mindset Quotes Guide Parents Raising Children

#46 “If parents want to give their children a gift, the best thing they can do is to teach their children to love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort, and keep on learning. That way, their children don't have to be slaves of praise. They will have a lifelong way to build and repair their own confidence.”

#47 “Speed and perfection are the enemy of difficult learning.”

#48 “It is not always people who start out the smartest who end up the smartest.”

#49 “Test scores and measures of achievement tell you where a student is, but they don't tell you where a student could end up.”

#50 “There’s a lot of intelligence out there being wasted by underestimating students’ potential to develop.”

#51 “In fact, every word and action can send a message. It tells children-or students, or athletes-how to think about themselves. It can be a fixed-mindset message that says: You have permanent traits and I'm judging them. Or it can be a growth-mindset message that says: You are a developing person and I am interested in your development.”

#52 “Once we know that abilities are capable of such growth, it becomes a basic human right for children, all children, to live in places that create that growth.”

#53 “The problem is when special begins to mean better than others.”

#54. “The wrong kind of praise creates self-defeating behavior. The right kind motivates students to learn.”

#55 “After seven experiments with hundreds of children, we had some of the clearest findings I've ever seen: Praising children's intelligence harms their motivation and it harms their performance. How can that be? Don't children love to be praised? Yes, children love praise. And they especially love to be praised for their intelligence and talent. It really does give them a boost, a special glow-but only for the moment. The minute they hit a snag, their confidence goes out the window and their motivation hits rock bottom. If success means they're smart, then failure means they're dumb. That's the fixed mindset.”

The Close The Deal.com Podcast started as a pilot with the Absolutely Mindset Podcast. The very first Absolutely Mindset Podcast , Julio Melara - Win the battle of the mind! addressed mindset which lays the foundation for this podcast and all we do in life. Enjoy.

Episodes 1- 9 were branded the Absolutely Mindset Podcast. Now the Close The Deal.com Podcast.