As a Man Thinketh /
Thought
Control - Quotes 1
"Thought is action in
rehearsal."
~ Freud ~
Sign over an arch
leading
to a university campus:
"You are not what you think
you
are; but what you think, you are."
"I realize that I will
be,
when my life's labor is complete, the product of my thoughts."
George Albert Smith
"The thought in your mind at this moment is contributing, however
infinitesimally,
almost imperceptibly, to the shaping of your soul."
Spencer W. Kimball
"You are the one who must decide whose thoughts you will
entertain.
You are free to choose--but you are not free to alter the consequences
of those choices. You will be what you think about--what you
consistently
allow to occupy the stage of your mind."
Ezra Taft Benson
Arnold Bennett described
concentration
as:
"...the power to dictate to
the
brain its task and insure its obedience."
"For every worry under the
sun,
There is a remedy or there is
none.
If there be one, hurry and
find
it.
If there be none, then never
mind it."
--LeGrand Richards
"I do not intend to read (or watch or listen to) anything I do not wish
to remember through eternity."
"If you think you are
beaten--you
are.
If you think that you dare
not--you
don't.
If you'd like to win, but
fear
you can't
It's fifty to one you won't."
"Instead of dismissing temptations as Jesus did, it is giving heed to
them
which gets so many in trouble."
Neal A. Maxwell
"The life of self-control is not grievous but joyous when we become
accustomed
to it. It clears the mind; it strengthens the judgement; it
elevates the character. It is the true freedom."
Benjamin Jowett
"The older I grow, the more I enjoy the words of thoughtful writers,
ancient
and modern, and the savoring of that which they have written."
Gordon B. Hinckley
"Ultimate human power is not
in
our possessions, but in our minds."
"If you don't believe in
yourself,
neither will anyone else."
Anne L. Horton, Ph.D.
"If I am not happy with me,
other
people suffer."
Neal A. Maxwell
"It must
be
the aim of education to teach the citizen that he must first of all
rule
himself."
Winthrop A.
Aldrich
"If you can control your thoughts, you can overcome habits--even
degrading,
personal habits. If you can learn to master them, you will have a
happy life."
Boyd K. Packer
"Just how much impact does
music
have? In 1703 Andrew Fletcher, a great Scottish patriot,
made
this observation (and I paraphrase him):
"You write the laws,
let
me write the music, and I will rule your country."
Zig Ziglar
"Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for
your
habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the
latter."
English Clergyman Edwin
Paxton
Hood, The New Dictionary of Thoughts
"Discipline what you allow your eyes to see, your ears to hear, your
mouth
to speak, and your hands to touch."
Elder Rulon G. Craven,
CR
April, 1996, p. 106
End of first 20
Quotes.
For More Quotes, see Quotes 2