Quotes

Timeless wisdom on how affirmations – thoughts repeated – create our destiny:

• We are what we think we are. The habitual inclination of our thoughts determines our talents and abilities, and our personality. Thus, some think they are writers or artists, industrious or lazy, and so on. What if you want to be other than what you presently think you are? You may argue that others have been born with the special talent you lack but desire to have. This is true. But they had to cultivate the habit of that ability some time — if not in this life, then in a previous one.  So whatever you want to be, start to develop that pattern now. You can instill any trend in your consciousness right now, provided you inject a strong thought in your mind; then your actions and whole being will obey that thought. – Paramahansa Yogananda

• We learn from these great sources of wisdom throughout the ages that our Thoughts build our lives and in a very real sense our Thoughts are our lives. Thoughts are the building blocks of our lives and thoughts build upon themselves. – Marion Rudy Kopmeyer

• By repeating an affirmation over and over again, it becomes embedded in the subconscious mind, and eventually becomes your reality. That is why you need to be careful what you think and believe, because that is exactly what you will get! Anthony Robbins

• Affirmations have long been recognized as a powerful tool in manifesting desires. That’s because the subconscious mind cannot differentiate between actual reality and suggestions. Therefore, it processes suggestions (or affirmations) as being real — and goes about using its powerful creative ability — and that of the nervous system — to actualize those affirmations.- Jeff Staniforth

• Autosuggestion, is quite a new subject, and yet at the same time it is as old as the world. It is new in the sense that until now it has been wrongly studied and in consequence wrongly understood; it is old because it dates from the appearance of man on the earth. In fact autosuggestion is an instrument that we possess at birth, and in this instrument, or rather in this force, resides a marvelous and incalculable power, which according to circumstances produces the best or the worst results. Knowledge of this force is useful to each one of us, but it is peculiarly indispensable to doctors, magistrates, lawyers, and to those engaged in the work of education. -  Emile Coue, the physician who formulated the Laws of Suggestion.

• The quality of your life will never exceed the quality of your thoughts.  Change one and you’ll change the other. Vic Johnson

• As a man thinketh in his heart, so he is.” – The Bible

• The soul attracts that which it secretly harbors, that which it loves, and also that which it fears. It reaches the height of its cherished aspirations. It falls to the level of its unchastened desires – and circumstances are the means by which the soul receives its own. – James Allen

• Keep your mind on the things you want and off the things you don’t want. Remember the old proverb: “Be very careful what you set your heart on, for you will surely achieve it.  – Napoleon Hill

• Yad Bhavam, Tad Bhavati – The Vedas

• What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind. – The Buddha

• To find yourself, think for yourself. -Socrates

• Man’s greatness lies in his power of thought. -Blaise Pascal

• We are what we think. All that we are arises With our thoughts. With our thoughts, We make our world. – The Buddha

• Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think. – Benjamin Disraeli

• Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be. – Henry David Thoreau

• Words saturated with sincerity, conviction, faith, and intuition are like highly explosive vibration bombs, which, when set off, shatter the rocks of difficulties and create the change desired. – Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda

• Man’s word is his wand filled with magic and power. – Florence Scovel Shinn

• Our Life is what our thoughts make it. – Marcus Aurelius

• Belief creates the actual fact. – William James

• Thought means Life, since those who do not think do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man. – Amos Bronson Alcott

• Thought engenders thought..the more you think the better you will express yourself. – George Sala

• Thoughts rule the world.- Emerson

• Secret study, silent thought, is the mightiest agent in, human affairs.  What a man does outwardly is but the expression and completion of his inward Thought. – William Ellery Channing

• The men of action are, after all only the unconscious instruments of the men of thought. – Henrich Heine

• There is no Thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into a power. – Emerson

• The ideas and images in men’s mind are the invisible powers that constantly govern them. – Jonathan Edwards

• Think success, visualize success, and you will set in motion the power force of the realizable wish. When the mental picture attitude is, strongly enough held, it actually seems to control, conditions and circumstances. – Dr. Norman Vincent Peale

• Success or failure in business is caused more by mental attitudes than by mental capacities. – Dr.Walter Scott

• Nurture your mind with great Thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.- Disraeli

• It is the habitual Thought which frames itself into our life. Our confidential friends have not so much, to do in shaping our lives as Thoughts have which we harbor. – John William Teal

• Thinking, not growth, makes manhood.- Isaac Taylor

• Man, by Thinking only becomes truly mar. Take away Thought from man’s life, and what remains? – Johann Pestalozzi

• Learning without Thought, is labor lost.- Confucius

• Whether you Think you can or think you can’t-you are right.- Henry Ford

• Thoughts, even more than overt acts, reveal character.- William Plumer

• The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your Thoughts.- Marcus Antoninus

• They are never alone who are accompanied by pleasant Thoughts. – Sir Sidney

• Garner up pleasant Thoughts in your mind, for pleasant Thoughts make, pleasant lives.- Bishop John Williams

• Good Thoughts are blessed guests and should be heartily welcomed.- Charles Hadden

• Nothing is comparable to the pleasure of an active and prevailing Thought.- Robert South

• The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant Thoughts, and the greatest art in life is to have as many of them as possible.- John Foster

• With our thoughts we build our personalities, our characters, our lives. Our thoughts determine what we are and what we will be throughout the future. All great religions, all great philosophies, all great thinkers all great achievers, affirm that we actually are the materialization of our thoughts. – Marion Rudy Kopmeyer

• Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. - Nelson Mandela

• By the thoughts we habitually entertain and act upon, we create the circumstances in which our life unfolds. - Paramahansa Yogananda