Quotes About Controlling Our Thoughts

#1. Our greatest individual challenge in life is self-discipline. The self-discipline of a healthy diet, daily exercise, controlling our thoughts, selflessly serving others, and living a life of integrity.

Bradford Winters

#2. Are we controlled by our thoughts, or are we controlling our thoughts?

Raymond Holliwell

#3. Education is the strongest weapon available for restricting the questions people ask, controlling what they think, and ensuring that they get their thoughts 'from above'.

John Carroll

#4. Controlling unwanted thoughts is not the problem. Believing, thrusting, and taking direction from them is.

Charles F. Glassman

#5. It was such a relief to realize someone else had a weird vivid inner life like my own!

Jacqueline Wilson

#6. The people have allowed me to - they've respected my choice of wanting to be like, a little, you know, a baby alchemist, and just trying to mix different cultures together and things that I think are interesting.

Pharrell Williams

#7. I am lost! Someone has taken over my mind and is controlling it! Someone is in command of all my actions, movements, and thoughts. I am nothing inside, merely a spectator enslaved and terrified by everything I do.

Guy De Maupassant

#8. A woman in love is her most lovely. A relationship end does not change that unless she lets it.

Suzette R. Hinton

#9. Peace is not achieved by controlling nations, but mastering our thoughts.

John Harricharan

#10. It Is Not about Controlling Thoughts, It Is about Guiding Thoughts

Esther Hicks

#11. It takes something special to realize that the preconceived choices and beliefs that you've always had aren't necessarily the best ones for you. It's not easy.

Joe Schreiber

#12. Remember, NO ONE has the right to control your emotions, thoughts, and actions, unless you let them.

Kevin J. Donaldson

#13. The music is the imperative. It has the upper hand. I think all music, even though it's an abstraction, does motivate a particular meaning. Then it's the job of the musician to honor that meaning and to somehow implement lyrical material that can accommodate that emotional environment.

Sufjan Stevens

#14. Anyone who, for 25 years, has built a career on such tenuous foundations as a high-pitched giggle, a raspberry and a sprinkling of top 'Cs' needs all the friends he can get.

Harry Secombe

#15. Man, double-faced by nature, is placed by Revelation under a sharp, precise external rule, controlling his actions and his thoughts.

Sabine Baring-Gould

#16. If human emotions largely result from thinking, then one may appreciably control one's feelings by controlling one's thoughts - or by changing the internalized sentences, or self-talk, with which one largely created the feeling in the first place.

Albert Ellis

#17. You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration.

James Lane Allen

#18. Controlling thoughts and behaviors is one of the tasks that System 2 performs.

Daniel Kahneman

#19. I don't fix anybody, because I don't think anybody's broken. I think what people have are patterns, and those can be changed. People quickly understand that what's controlling their thoughts and emotions are their values and rules, and they learn how to shift those.

Tony Robbins

#20. What divide us are not our Differences but our prejudicial attitudes towards others.

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#21. Most people assume that meditation is all about stopping thoughts, getting rid of emotions, somehow controlling the mind. But actually it's ... about stepping back, seeing the thought clearly, witnessing it coming and going.

Andy Puddicombe

#22. Changing your attitude, your outlook, your mindset, perspective, disposition, or mood - they all mean controlling where you allow your thoughts to linger.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#23. Planning a brilliant menu and preparing it beautifully doesn't guarantee a recipe for success.

Kathy Lette

#24. Everybody in the world is seeking happiness - and there is one sure way to find it. That is by controlling your thoughts. Happiness doesn't depend on outward conditions. It depends on inner conditions.

Dale Carnegie

#25. Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things right. As soon as you dust, the fact of your next dusting has already been established.

George Carlin