Quotes about Thoughts

The world in which you live is not primarily determined by outward conditions and circumstances but by the thoughts that habitually occupy your mind.

No man is happy who does not think himself so.

The secret is to fill your mind with thoughts of faith, confidence, and security. This will force out or expel all thoughts of doubt, all lack of confidence. To one man who for a long time had been haunted by insecurities and fears I suggested that he read through the Bible underlining in red pencil every statement it contains relative to courage and confidence. He also committed them to memory, in effect cramming his mind full of the healthiest, happiest, most powerful thoughts in the world.

Whenever a negative thought concerning your personal powers comes to mind, deliberately voice a positive thought to cancel it out.

Every day flush lack thoughts out of your mind and refill with dynamic thoughts of abundance. Expect generous benefits in never failing supply.

The words we speak have a direct and definite effect upon our thoughts. Thoughts create words, for words are the vehicles of ideas. But words also affect thoughts and help to condition if not to create attitudes. In fact, what often passes for thinking starts with talk.

When you change your thoughts, remember to also change your world

It is a fact that negative thought will attract negative thought, and positive thought will attract positive thought.

If in our thoughts we constantly fix attention upon sinister expectations of dire events that might happen, the result will be constantly to feel insecure.

Worry is a habit. It got into your mind because you practiced it, and anything you practice in, you can practice out.

There is no such thing as a good influence. Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtures are not real to him. His sins, if there are such thing as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of someone else's music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him.

The great events of the world take place in the brain...