Best quotes from As a Man Thinketh

Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power.

He is the maker of his character, the molder of his life, and the builder of his destiny.

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves.

Man is made or unmade by himself; in the armoury of thought he forges the weapons by which he destroys himself; he also fashions the tools with which he builds for himself heavenly mansions of joy and strength and peace.

Only the wise man, only he whose thoughts are controlled and purified, makes the winds and the storms of the soul obey him.

A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts.

The soul attracts that which it secretly harbours; that which it loves, and also that which it fears.

Let a man radically alter his thoughts, and he will be astonished at the rapid transformation it will effect in the material conditions of his life.

The outer conditions of a person’s life will always be found to be harmoniously related to his inner state…Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are.

When a man makes his thoughts pure, he no longer desires impure food.

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become.

The oak sleeps in the acorn; the bird waits in the egg; and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.

Suffering ceases for him who is pure. A perfectly pure and enlightened being could not suffer.

The outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to be harmoniously related to his inner state...Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are.