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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“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.”
“Attitude is an outer expression of an inner feeling.”
“Our attitude towards life determines life’s attitude towards us.”
“People only see what they are prepared to see.”
“The difference between a mountain and a molehill is your perspective.”
“Life is like a mirror. If you frown at it, it frowns back. If you smile at it, it returns the greeting.”
“If you can’t change it, change your attitude.”
“If the facts don’t fit the theory, change the facts.”
“Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.”
“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.”
“The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.”
“The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.”
“Life isn’t as serious as the mind makes it out to be.”
“A happy person is not a person in a set of circumstances, but rather a person with a set of attitudes.”
“For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.”
“The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.”
“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.”
“It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.”
“If you can change your mind, you can change your life.”
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used to create them.”
“Nothing can be wrong except your own personal attitude. Make that right and you will know that all else is right.”
“Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.”
“Two things define you: Your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when you have everything.”
“It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.”
“You must learn a new way to think before you can master a new way to be.”
“Whatever the hell happens, say, ‘This is what I need.’”
“Man is disturbed not by things, but by the views he takes of them.”
“How does it help to make troubles heavier by bemoaning them?”
“It’s not the problem that causes our suffering; it’s our thinking about the problem.”
“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.”
“Perspective drives performance.”
“Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.”
“Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.”
“Success is waking up every morning and consciously deciding that today will be the best day of your life.”
“Heaven on Earth is a choice you must make, not a place you must find.”
“Happiness is the meaning and purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.”
“Your success and happiness lie in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.”
“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.”
“Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.”
“Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.”
“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”
“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.”
“Being happy doesn’t mean that everything is perfect. It means that you’ve decided to look beyond the imperfections.”
“Children are happy because they don’t have a file in their mind called ‘all the things that could go wrong.’”
“You live longer once you realize that any time spent being unhappy is wasted.”
“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”
“Happiness is not a destination, it’s a method of life.”
“Successful people maintain a positive focus in life no matter what is going on around them.”
“Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results.”
“Do not anticipate trouble or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.”
