You cannot always control your circumstances, but you can always control your own thoughts. - Charles E. Popplestone, adapted
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts. - Marcus Antonius (A.D. 86-161)
We create our fortune, for so the universe was wrought. Thought is another name for fate; choose then your destiny and wait, for love brings love, and hate brings hate. - Henry Van Dyke (1852-1933)
The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts. - Marcus Aurelius (A.D. 121-180)
The game of life is the game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later, with astounding accuracy. - Florence Shinn
Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny. - Frank Outlaw
Watch your core beliefs; they control your thoughts. - Gary Fenchuk
A belief is not merely an idea that the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind. - Robert Bolton
The most powerful thing you can do to change the world is to change your own beliefs about the nature of life, people and reality to something more positive... and begin to act accordingly. - Shakti Gawain
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-82)