Peter McWilliams Quotes

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

The mind is a wonderful servant, but a terrible master.

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 don't have to control your thoughts; you just have to stop letting them control you.

You control the doorway to your mind.

He who is not master of his own thoughts is not accountable for his own deeds.

I thought a lot and I controlled my thoughts in my work - and I controlled my work through my thoughts.

Understand that thoughts are thoughts. If they are unreasonable, reason with them, even if you have no reason left. You are the observer of your mind, not its victim.

Make a decision that from now on, your thoughts do not run you, you run your thoughts. From now on, your mind is not the captain of your ship, you are the captain of the ship, and your mind works for you.

No one has ever been able to control his thinking, although people may tell the story of how they have. I don't let go of my thoughts-I meet them with understanding. Then they let go of me.

You either control your mind or it controls you.

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.

A mind in control is always better than a mind out of control. For one thing, a controlled mind can learn much better and go much further than a chaotic one. A person with a steady-state mind has the potential to exit this life with a much greater understanding than someone who is continually learning and forgetting, gaining and misplacing knowledge.

You are the driver of your mind, so take charge and keep it busy with your instructions by telling it where you want it to go. Your mind only takes off on its own if you are not telling it what to do.

By far the most difficult skill I learned as a C.E.O. was the ability to manage my own psychology. Organizational design, process design, metrics, hiring and firing were all relatively straightforward skills to master compared with keeping my mind in check.

We are not a victim of our emotions or thoughts. We can understand our triggers and use them as tools to help us respond more objectively.

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

Emotions are products of our mind, and we can actually train ourselves to choose whether we banish or embrace them.

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.

Are we controlled by our thoughts, or are we controlling our thoughts?

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.

The mind is such a powerful thing, and when you learn how to control that it really turns a lot of things around.

Being able to control your mind is a beautiful thing.

The mind has to be gradually and systematically brought under control.

To have the management of the mind is a great art, and it may be attained in a considerable degree by experience and habitual exercise.