Quotes About Controlling Your Thoughts

#1. 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

#2. 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

#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. bowls of cornflakes,

Maeve Binchy

#6. 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

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

John Harricharan

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

Esther Hicks

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

Kevin J. Donaldson

#10. Where you are now is not where you will always be. There are brighter days up ahead.

Joel Osteen

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

Sabine Baring-Gould

#12. 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

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

Daniel Kahneman

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. I can't watch the news. It's extremely unsettling. Certain people can be a little desensitized because of movies, and I'm totally a part of that world, so I understand. But when you're actually seeing what's happening, you can't help but be a little affected.

Selena Gomez

#17. And taking her friend's hand, she put it on her breast, on that firm round covering of a woman's heart which the male often finds so satisfying that he makes no attempt to find what lies beneath it.

Guy De Maupassant

#18. 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

#19. What would make me happiest is if kids read these books [ Bink & Gollie] and think: there is so much to love in the world; and words are so much fun.

Kate DiCamillo

#20. 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

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

Raymond Holliwell

#22. I took acres of fertile ignorance up to that place. And they started to pour preconceptions all over it. Like forty tons of cement. No thanks. I got out before it hardened. I did a year, passed

William McIlvanney