Command Your Inner World Quotes

“There is a power under your control that is greater than poverty, greater than the lack of education, greater than all your fears and superstitions combined. It is the power to take possession of your own mind and direct it to whatever ends you may desire.”

“If you try to get rid of fear and anger without knowing their meaning, they will grow stronger and return.”

“The world ’out there’ won’t change until the world ’in here’ does.”

“The goal is to be the observer of your thoughts and not let your thoughts control you.”

“Fear is the memory of pain. Addiction is the memory of pleasure. Freedom is beyond both.”

“The best use of imagination is creativity. The worst use of imagination is anxiety.”

“A quiet mind is more important than a positive mind.”

“What you pay attention to grows. If your attention is attracted to negative situations and emotions, then they will grow in your awareness.”

“Every cell in your body is eavesdropping on your thoughts.”

“Work on psychological blocks like shame and guilt - they falsely color your reality.”

“The next thing you think, the next action you take, will either create a new possibility for you, or it will repeat the past.”

“The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are the buts you use today.”

“There is nothing more powerful than a changed mind.”

“The only thing that can possibly keep you from going after your dreams is the person standing in your shoes, wearing your clothes, and thinking your negative thoughts.”

“If you want to begin to alter your circumstance and alter your life, it’s very important that you begin to change your attitude about yourself.”

“Don’t let the negativity given to you by the world dis-empower you. Instead give to yourself that which empowers you.”

“Fundamentally we’re all the by-product of not what has happened to us, but how we choose to handle it.”

“Live in accordance with your outside world and you’ll soon find misery. Live in accordance with your inside world and you’ll soon find happiness.”

“When you change the story you tell yourself, everything else changes too.”

“For a healthy mind, burn off grudges, regrets about your past, irrational worries about the future, ingratitude and limiting beliefs that are holding your potential hostage.”

“If your goal is to improve your mental health, start by removing the junk from your mental diet.”

“For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use to be anything else.”

“Every man should ask himself each day whether he is not too readily accepting negative solutions.”

“Man is his own worst enemy.”

“A happy life consists in tranquillity of mind.”

“Negative thoughts compound. The more you think of yourself as worthless, stupid, or ugly, the more you condition yourself to interpret life that way. You get trapped in a thought loop.”

“Master your internal monologue and master your daily attention. Most tips, tricks, and tactics ultimately come back to these two things.”

“The information you consume each day is the soil from which your future thoughts grow.”

“You have two choices, to control your mind or to let your mind control you.”

“What really matters in a pencil is not its wooden exterior, but the graphite inside. So always pay attention to what is happening inside you.”

“Most people see the world as a threatening place, and, because they do, the world turns out, indeed, to be a threatening place.”

“To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.”

“The superior man is satisfied and composed; the mean man is always full of distress.”

“There are three things which the superior man guards against. In youth, when the physical powers are not yet settled, he guards against lust. When he is strong and the physical powers are full of vigor, he guards against quarrelsomeness. When he is old, and the animal powers are decayed, he guards against covetousness.”

“Happiness, like unhappiness, is a proactive choice.”

“We are not our feelings. We are not our moods. We are not even our thoughts. The very fact that we can think about these things separates us from them and from the animal world.”

“In the space between stimulus (what happens) and how we respond, lies our freedom to choose. Ultimately, this power to choose is what defines us as human beings. We may have limited choices but we can always choose. We can choose our thoughts, emotions, moods, our words, our actions; we can choose our values and live by principles. It is the choice of acting or being acted upon.”

“Pain and pleasure occur in consciousness and exist only there.”

“The ultimate test for the ability to control the quality of experience is what a person does in solitude, with no external demands to give structure to attention.”

“A person can make himself happy, or miserable, regardless of what is actually happening ‘outside,’ just by changing the contents of consciousness. We all know individuals who can transform hopeless situations into challenges to be overcome, just through the force of their personalities.”

“How we feel about ourselves, the joy we get from living, ultimately depend directly on how the mind filters and interprets everyday experiences. Whether we are happy depends on inner harmony, not on the controls we are able to exert over the great forces of the universe.”

“Happiness is not something that happens. It is not the result of good fortune or random chance. It is not something that money can buy or power command. It does not depend on outside events, but, rather, on how we interpret them. Happiness, in fact, is a condition that must be prepared for, cultivated, and defended privately by each person.”

“Doesn’t matter what your skill and physical gifts are if you can’t get your head right.”