Command Your Inner World Quotes
Your outer life is built from your inner one. The man who directs his thoughts, instead of being dragged around by them, holds the controls to everything else. This Mindset path holds the greatest quotes ever gathered on mastering your thinking. Scroll through and put them to work.
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“You are what you are because you think as you do.”
“If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.”
“We are God’s Godding on the leading edge of creation.”
“Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.”
“Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence.”
“Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.”
“The Universe is responding to the vibrational attitude that you are emitting. The more joyful you are, the more well-being flows to you.”
“Life is like a mirror. If you frown at it, it frowns back. If you smile at it, it returns the greeting.”
“Your personality creates your personal reality.”
“What you focus on with your thought and feeling is what you attract into your experience.”
“Man is disturbed not by things, but by the views he takes of them.”
“The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire, not things we fear.”
“All that we are is the result of what we have thought.”
“Whatever the hell happens, say, ‘This is what I need.’”
“You live longer once you realize that any time spent being unhappy is wasted.”
“Change your thoughts and you change your world.”
“Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for power equal to your tasks.”
“Our attitude towards life determines life’s attitude towards us.”
“Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.”
“If we want peace, we have to be peace. Peace is a practice and not a hope.”
“How does it help to make troubles heavier by bemoaning them?”
“What screws us up the most in life is the picture in our head of how it’s supposed to be.”
“All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
“No man is hurt but by himself.”
“Every thought is a prayer.”
“The most important conversations you’ll ever have are the ones you’ll have with yourself.”
“Promise yourself to be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind.”
“Your dominant thoughts create your conditions.”
“The thing is, we have to let go of all blame, all attacking, all judging, to free our inner selves to attract what we say we want.”
“Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.”
“What you think, you become. What you feel, you attract. What you imagine, you create.”
“You don’t have to control your thoughts. You just have to stop letting them control you.”
“Most people are thinking about what they don’t want, and they’re wondering why it shows up over and over again.”
“You don’t have to have a reason to feel good. You’re alive! You can feel good for no reason at all!”
“The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.”
“You can be pitiful or powerful, but you cannot be both.”
“The difference between a mountain and a molehill is your perspective.”
“The best way to overcome undesirable or negative thoughts and feelings is to cultivate the positive ones.”
“Do not anticipate trouble or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.”
“You will never do great things in the external world until you do great things in the internal world.”
“Don’t be victim of negative self-talk. Remember, you are listening.”
“That only which we have within can we see without. If we meet no gods, it is because we harbor none.”
“The difference between an optimist and a pessimist is the pessimist might be right, but the optimist enjoyed the ride better.”
“If the facts don’t fit the theory, change the facts.”
“People who fail focus on what they have to go through; people who succeed focus on what it will feel like at the end.”
“You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
“The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at.”
“We are like magnets - like attracts like. You become AND attract what you think.”
“Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.”
“You can’t wait until life isn’t hard anymore before you decide to be happy.”
“Being happy doesn’t mean that everything is perfect. It means that you’ve decided to look beyond the imperfections.”
“Keep your face always toward the sunshine, and shadows will fall behind you.”
“People think about what they don’t want and attract more of the same.”
“When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.”
“You not only have the power to think, but the power to control your thoughts and direct them.”
“Negative or destructive thoughts are the weeds that will choke out the seed of your definite purpose.”
“We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become.”
“Habits of thinking need not be forever. One of the most significant findings in psychology in the last twenty years is that individuals can choose the way they think.”
“If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present.”
“You must begin to think of yourself as becoming the person you want to be.”
“Your whole life is a manifestation of the thoughts that go on in your head.”
“Whatever a monk keeps pursuing with his thinking and pondering, that becomes the inclination of his awareness.”
“As you think, you travel, and as you love, you attract.”
“Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.”
“People only see what they are prepared to see.”
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used to create them.”
“Nothing was ever created that was not first conceived in the imagination, through desire, and transformed into reality through concentration.”
“Keep your thoughts positive, because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive, because your behaviors become your habits. Keep your habits positive, because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive, because your values become your destiny.”
“The most practical way of controlling the mind is to keep it busy with a purpose, backed by a plan.”
“It’s not the problem that causes our suffering; it’s our thinking about the problem.”
“Let peace be the umpire for any decision.”
“The body is the servant of the mind. It obeys the operations of the mind, whether they be deliberately chosen or automatically expressed.”
“To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.”
“You cannot always control what goes on outside, but you can always control what goes on inside.”
“When the voice and vision on the inside become more profound and clear than the opinions on the outside, then you have mastered your life.”
“Everything is energy, and that is all there is to it. Match the frequency of the reality you want, and you cannot help but get that reality.”
“What you radiate outward in your thoughts, feelings, mental pictures and words, you attract into your life.”
“Children are happy because they don’t have a file in their mind called ‘all the things that could go wrong.’”
“When mental energy is allowed to follow the line of least resistance and to fall into easy channels, it is called weakness.”
“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”
“The universe responds to the frequency of your thoughts; manifest positivity, attract positivity.”
“It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.”
“Your body hears everything your mind says.”
“Thought = creation. If these thoughts are attached to powerful emotions (good or bad) that speeds the creation.”
“Your thoughts become things, choose the good ones.”
“There is a criterion by which you can judge whether the thoughts you are thinking and the things you are doing are right for you. The criterion is: Have they brought you inner peace?”
“Perspective drives performance.”
“The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.”
“Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.”
“Thought is the fountain of action, life and manifestation; make the fountain pure, and all will be pure.”
“When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.”
“You must learn a new way to think before you can master a new way to be.”
“Your goals minus your doubts equal reality.”
“Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.”
“Our greatest battles are those with our own minds.”
“When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to look elsewhere.”
“The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.”
“Never make permanent decisions on temporary feelings.”
“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”
“I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.”
“Self-control is the result of thought control.”
“Happiness is the meaning and purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.”
“No great action is possible until a great thought has preceded it.”
“A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.”
“Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for, empowers you.”
“Your ability to generate power is directly proportional to your ability to relax.”
“I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.”
“Don’t think you are going to become great. Think and act great now.”
“It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.”
“As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.”
“Keep your mind fixed on what you want in life: not on what you don’t want.”
“Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.”
“Be the steamroller, not the pavement. Be the hammer, not the nail.”
“Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian.”
“Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you’re willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it.”
“The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.”
“Mind is potential energy, while thought is the dynamic force that produces the activity for manifestation.”
“Nothing can be wrong except your own personal attitude. Make that right and you will know that all else is right.”
“Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results.”
“The Law of Attraction states that whatever you focus on, think about, read about, and talk about intensely, you’re going to attract more of into your life.”
“You are today where your thoughts have brought you. You will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.”
“You are searching for the magic key that will unlock the door to the source of power; yet you have the key in your own hands the moment you learn to control your thoughts.”
“The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.”
“A man is literally what he thinks.”
“Never forget the three most powerful resources that you always have available to you: love, prayer and forgiveness.”
“A man is what he thinks about all day long.”
“Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.”
“Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples, don’t count on harvesting golden delicious.”
“What lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.”
“Happiness is not a destination, it’s a method of life.”
“Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.”
“Just as a gardener cultivates his plot, keeping it free from weeds, so may a man tend the garden of his mind, weeding out all the wrong, useless, and impure thoughts, and cultivating toward perfection the flowers and fruits of right, useful, and pure thoughts.”
“Inspiration comes from within yourself. One has to be positive. When you’re positive, good things happen.”
“Heaven on Earth is a choice you must make, not a place you must find.”
“Man is made or unmade by himself. In the armoury of thought he forges the weapons by which he destroys himself.”
“What’s going on inside shows on the outside.”
“Manifestation occurs when you align your mindset, belief system, and actions with your desired reality.”
“Your success and happiness lie in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.”
“A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.”
“The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.”
“A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday.”
“Your brain shall be your servant instead of your master; you will rule it instead of allowing it to rule you.”
“Control of consciousness determines the quality of life.”
“Manifestation is the art of allowing.”
“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”
“Nothing external to you has any power over you.”
“If you can’t change it, change your attitude.”
“The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.”
“You want to become aware of your thoughts, you want to choose your thoughts carefully and you want to have fun with this, because you are the masterpiece of your own life.”
“We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.”
“Your strongest, deepest, and most frequent thoughts influence the physical action of the body.”
“Reality is a projection of your thoughts or the things you habitually think about.”
“Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts.”
“The key to every man is his thought.”
“The world doesn’t happen to me. I happen to the world.”
“You are a living magnet. What you attract into your life is in harmony with your dominant thoughts.”
“Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.”
“A man can only rise, conquer, and achieve by lifting up his thoughts.”
“The brain is like Velcro for negative experiences but Teflon for positive ones.”
“Attitude is an outer expression of an inner feeling.”
“Everything you see happening is the consequence of that which you are.”
“Let a person radically alter his thoughts, and he will be astonished at the rapid transformation it will effect in the material conditions of his life.”
“You do not find the happy life. You make it.”
“Happiness is not the belief that we don’t need to change; it is the realization that we can.”
“The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominating thought habits.”
“Self-discipline begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don’t control what you think, you can’t control what you do…”
“What you habitually think largely determines what you will ultimately become.”
“Stay upbeat by knowing that what you want is on the way. You know something others don’t.”
“Prayer is not an old woman’s idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.”
“The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind.”
“Your mind is a garden. Your thoughts are the seeds. You can grow flowers or you can grow weeds.”
“Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become character. Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.”
“Nurture your mind with great thoughts for you will never go higher than you think.”
“Success is something you attract by the person you become.”
“The past has no power over the present moment.”
“The mind is what the mind is fed.”
“The mind is everything. What you think you become.”
“Two things define you: Your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when you have everything.”
“Positive action combined with positive thinking results in success.”
“Manifesting is the art of co-creating with the universe.”
“No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.”
“For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.”
“The basic difference between an ordinary person and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge, while an ordinary person takes everything as a blessing or a curse.”
“Nothing is, unless our thinking makes it so.”
“Your thoughts determine your destiny.”
“Learn the power of suggestion and autosuggestion, or it may bring you defeat instead of success.”
“Success is waking up every morning and consciously deciding that today will be the best day of your life.”
“Successful people maintain a positive focus in life no matter what is going on around them.”
“We become what we think about.”
“What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.”
“Rule your mind, and you will rule your world.”
“For one who has conquered his mind, a mind is best of friends, but for one who has failed to do so, a mind is the greatest enemy.”
“You have everything you need for complete peace and total happiness right now.”
“The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.”
“The last of human freedoms is to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances.”
“Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.”
“You are not your thoughts; you are the awareness behind them.”
“Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.”
“Rule your mind, or it will rule you.”
“We can only receive in life that which the mind entertains as possible.”
“Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.”
“Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.”
“We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.”
“A happy person is not a person in a set of circumstances, but rather a person with a set of attitudes.”
“Life isn’t as serious as the mind makes it out to be.”
“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.”
“When you radiate love, you attract love.”
“The brain does not make the man. The man makes the brain.”
“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.”
“Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.”
“Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.”
“If you can change your mind, you can change your life.”
“Do not allow negative feelings and emotions to control your mind”
“Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny.”
