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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“Self-control is the result of thought control.”
“Self-discipline begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don’t control what you think, you can’t control what you do…”
“You not only have the power to think, but the power to control your thoughts and direct them.”
“If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.”
“Negative or destructive thoughts are the weeds that will choke out the seed of your definite purpose.”
“To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.”
“No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.”
“The best way to overcome undesirable or negative thoughts and feelings is to cultivate the positive ones.”
“Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.”
“The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.”
“Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.”
“What screws us up the most in life is the picture in our head of how it’s supposed to be.”
“Never make permanent decisions on temporary feelings.”
“Do not allow negative feelings and emotions to control your mind”
“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.”
“Learn the power of suggestion and autosuggestion, or it may bring you defeat instead of success.”
“Man is made or unmade by himself. In the armoury of thought he forges the weapons by which he destroys himself.”
“Keep your mind fixed on what you want in life: not on what you don’t want.”
“Your mind is a garden. Your thoughts are the seeds. You can grow flowers or you can grow weeds.”
“The most practical way of controlling the mind is to keep it busy with a purpose, backed by a plan.”
“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.”
“You don’t have to control your thoughts. You just have to stop letting them control you.”
“The most important conversations you’ll ever have are the ones you’ll have with yourself.”
“Don’t be victim of negative self-talk. Remember, you are listening.”
“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.”
“Our greatest battles are those with our own minds.”
“When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.”
“The mind is what the mind is fed.”
“The brain is like Velcro for negative experiences but Teflon for positive ones.”
“You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
“Rule your mind, or it will rule you.”
“Rule your mind, and you will rule your world.”
“Nothing external to you has any power over you.”
“The world doesn’t happen to me. I happen to the world.”
“Be the steamroller, not the pavement. Be the hammer, not the nail.”
“What lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.”
“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.”
“You are not your thoughts; you are the awareness behind them.”
“A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.”
“The past has no power over the present moment.”
“I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.”
“You can be pitiful or powerful, but you cannot be both.”
“You cannot always control what goes on outside, but you can always control what goes on inside.”
“No man is hurt but by himself.”
“Your brain shall be your servant instead of your master; you will rule it instead of allowing it to rule you.”
“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.”
“The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.”
“Control of consciousness determines the quality of life.”
“The last of human freedoms is to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances.”
“Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for, empowers you.”
