Brad Marchand Quotes

My teacher Jim Rohn taught me a simple principle: every day, stand guard at the door of your mind, and you alone decide what thoughts and beliefs you let into your life. For they will shape whether you feel rich or poor, cursed or blessed.

When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.

I'm God because I have the power to control my mind.

Being able to control your mind is a beautiful thing.

When people learn to master their feelings, they can soon learn to master their reflections and thoughts in the degree requisite for attaining the objects they are seeking. But while they yield to a feeling or spirit that distracts their minds from a subject they wish to study and learn, so long they will never gain the mastery of their minds.

For one who is a learner and who has not yet come to master their mind, but who dwells aspiring for peace from that which binds, making it a matter concerning himself, I know of no other thing as helpful as giving close attention to the mind.

Usually, we find it difficult to control our mind. It seems as if our mind is like a balloon in the wind - blown here and there by external circumstances.

You are who you are and what you are because of what has gone into your mind. You can change who you are and what you are by changing what goes into your mind.

In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first.

Once I realized that right thinking is vital to victorious living, I got more serious about thinking about what I was thinking about, and choosing my thoughts carefully.

For me, that's the biggest thing, if something holds me back it's my mental game so I really tried to focus on that and just worked on that.

You have two choices: to control your mind or to let your mind control you.

You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That's the only thing you should be trying to control.

You... and only you choose your thoughts.

You control the doorway to your mind.

The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.

I used to have to force myself to go, okay, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing and then all of a sudden a thought of some where could come in. Now I can just focus and not think about anything. So, yeah, I guess I do that a lot.

My goal is always transformation. I love to watch people transform their lives, which includes their inner world and their outer world.

Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.

Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.

Personal law is simply the thought that controls your mind and your life more than any other thought. Finding that thought is the most valuable knowledge that you can have about yourself. It is like the leverage on personal change. It enables you to change very efficiently.

I have always heard that uber-successful people who write books about how to become uber-successful all have one thing in common: They all meditate every day. I consider yoga my meditation.

It is easier to act yourself into a new way of feeling than to feel yourself into a new way of acting.

Highly functioning self-actualized people simply never imagine what it is that they don't wish to have as their reality.

I understood that the will could not be improved before the mind had been enlightened.