John Ortberg Quotes

You are not what you think you are, but WHAT YOU THINK, the thoughts that habitually possess your mind, that is what you are

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.

If you think you're a second-class citizen, you are.

Think! You can think any think that you wish.

Every achiever that I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me'.

How you think about a problem is more important than the problem itself. So always think positively.

I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it's not the answer.

The only thing that's holding you back, is the way you're thinking.

If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.

Never say never, because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion.

You become that which you think you are. Or, it is not that you become it, but that the idea gets very deeply rooted and that's what all conditioning is.

The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is ten percent what happens to me and ninety percent of how I react to it. And so it is with you. we are in charge of our attitudes.

If you think you can't, why think

Our only limitations are those we set up in our own minds

I also like some of Joel Osteen's work. I think he's now doing a book about one of my favorite sermons of his, "The Power of 'I Am.' " I just love that sermon.

You are what you think you are.

Think and wonder, wonder and think.

I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.

Thought is cause: experience is effect. If you don't like the effects in your life, you have to change the nature of your thinking.

Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

It's not what happens to you that determines how far you will go in life; it is how you handle what happens to you.

What you think is impossible in life actually is possible.

The most successful people are mavericks who aren't afraid to ask why, especially when everyone thinks it's obvious.

Reality is not so much what happens to us; rather, it is how we think about those events that create the reality we experience. In a very real sense, this means that we each create the reality in which we live.

Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.