50 Quotes that will help change your way of thinking. What do you think about in moments of peace and quiet? How far have you come or how far should you go? About your strengths or weaknesses? About what can happen in the best case, or the worst that can happen? In such moments, alone with yourself, pay attention to your thoughts. Because perhaps the only thing that needs to change in order to experience more happiness, love and vitality is your way of thinking.

Below you can find 50 thought-provoking quotes that will help you organize your thinking.

• You cannot change what you refuse to face.

• Sometimes good things end in failure, but they are replaced by things that are even more important and more successful.

• True love does not oblige you to be inseparable, but to be faithful to each other, even in separation.

While you are busy looking for the perfect person, you are likely to miss out on the imperfect person who could make you absolutely happy.

• You can learn something valuable from your mistakes, as long as you don't deny them, of course.

Thinking that the world will be fair to you just because you are fair is like hoping the lion won't eat you because you don't want to eat him.

No matter how good or bad your life is, wake up every day and be grateful for your life and everything it has provided you with. Someone is now fighting for a piece of bread.

• The smallest act of kindness is far more valuable than the mere intention.

• Many people are very poor because the only thing they have is money.

• Learn to appreciate what you have before time forces you to appreciate the things you once had.

• In life, if you don't risk anything, you're actually risking a lot.

• What you do every day matters more than what you are going to do next.

• You can't start a new chapter in your life if you're still rereading the previous one.

• Things work out best for those people who do their job regardless of what awaits them in the end.

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change anything, change your thinking.

• Sometimes you need to step back to see certain things clearly.

Too many people buy things they don't need with money they don't have to impress people they don't know.

No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow your progress is, you are still ahead of those people who haven't tried anything yet.

If a person wants to be a part of your life, they will make obvious efforts to do so. Think twice before making room in your heart for people who didn't make an effort to stay there.

• Make at least one person smile and maybe you will change the world - not the whole world, but at least the world of this person.

• You won't drown if you fall into the water. You will drown standing in it.

When things are going well for you, your friends know how you are and who you are. When luck is not on your side, then you already know who your friends are.

• Don't look for someone who will solve all your problems for you, look for someone who will help you solve them.

• When you start noticing the good in other people, you eventually stop seeing and looking for the good in yourself.

It's better to find out and be disappointed than to never know and always wonder.

We don't want some things to happen, but we don't have the right to change anything, we don't want to know some things, but we have to learn them, and there are people we can't live without, but one day we'll have to let them go.

• If you tell the truth, it becomes part of your past. If you lie, lying becomes part of your future.

• The only normal people you know are those you don't know much about yet.

• Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to what happens.

• The most painful thing is to lose your head because of strong love for someone and in denial of your individuality.

• It's better to be alone than to be in bad company.

• As we age, we understand that it is not as important to have many friends as to have one, but real one.

Making 100 friends is not difficult. But to have just one friend who will be on your side, even when hundreds of people are against you, is an amazing thing.

Giving up doesn't always mean you are weak; on the contrary, sometimes it means that you are strong and smart enough to put everything out of your head and move on.

Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours in a day as Helena Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresea, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, Albert Einstein, etc. ...

• If you really want to do something, you will find a way. If you don't want to do it, you will always find an excuse.

• Falling in love does not mean making a choice. They choose whether to stay in love.

• Once you stop chasing the wrong things, you can catch up with the right ones.

• Every situation that has ever happened in your life is preparing you for the moment that is yet to come.

There is nothing boastful about being superior to another person. True boasting is about being superior to the person you once were.

• Trying to be someone, you are wasting your time.

• You will never become the person you want to be if you continue to blame everyone else for who you are now.

• People hide more from you than they show.

• Sometimes people don't notice what they do for them until they stop doing it.

• Don't listen to what people say, look at what they do.

• Being alone doesn't mean being lonely, and being lonely doesn't mean you're alone.

Love is not based on sex, showy feelings, or hanging out together. Love is being with a person who makes you happy in a way that no one else can.

Love and appreciate your parents. We are so busy growing up that we forget that our parents also age over time.

If you are forced to compromise and give in to your principles for the sake of the people around you, it is probably time to change the people around you.

• Learn to love yourself first, instead of loving the ideas of those people who love you.

• When someone tells you, “You have changed,” then most likely you have stopped living the way they lived before.

• You don't have to listen to the person who disagrees with you.

Be happy. Be yourself. If others don't like it, ignore them. It's your choice and you don't have to satisfy everyone.

There are two types of thinking: ambivalent and black and white.

People with black and white thinking know exactly what is good and what is bad. They quickly make their choices and are prone to firm decisions that they do not think about again. Therefore, black and white thinking makes the world simpler.

Ambivalent (gray) thinking is the ability to see a situation from several sides at once. A person who knows how to think ambivalently can accept the opponent's position and look at the problem from his point of view. Despite what ambivalent thinking does to us, it is very useful. After all, only those who learn to move into the “gray zone” will become smarter and wiser.

Gray thinking can be learned. After all, each of us initially possessed the skill of ambivalent thinking when we were small.

Kids do it like this

They love to torment their parents with questions. The chain of “whys” can be endless.

- Why does the dog stick out its tongue and breathe?

- She's hot.

- Why? I'm hot, but I didn't stick my tongue out.

- Yes, but the dog has fur and doesn’t sweat.

- Why does the dog have fur?

- To keep her warm.

- Then why don’t I have wool?

- Well, that's enough!

Parents will probably recognize this dialogue: similar conversations with children happen often. For a child, the world is not black and white, and he easily tries everything on himself. There is still so much unknown. There are no foundations, no unambiguous truths. The worldview has not yet been formed.

How the world becomes black and white

As we grow older, our views become harsher. Certain frameworks are imposed on us from the outside. For example, students are asked to take exams consisting of test questions. This forces us to think in black and white. The correct answer is always A, B, C or D, it cannot be otherwise.

The main symptom of such a worldview is thinking in certain categories:

• War is bad. War is good.
• Capitalism is bad. Capitalism is good.
• Higher education is necessary. Higher education is a waste of time.

As we grow up, we think in slogans. They replace our understanding of the problem, the thinking process itself. After all, in order to think, you need to strain. And when it is clear what is black and what is white, there is no need to think.

Is it bad to have strong beliefs?

No, not bad. But the real world is not black and white. It is very difficult to find a question to which you could give the only correct answer. Our life is a gray area.

This is very difficult to accept: in schools and universities we are taught to believe that there are right and wrong answers. And only when faced with reality do we begin to suspect that the world is not so simple.

Clear answers and slogans are no longer suitable. If you know history well, you will not be able to unequivocally say that war is bad. Most likely, now you will say: “War is bad, but at some stages of the development of the state it was necessary, so it can be considered a complex and ambiguous phenomenon.”

From this answer it becomes clear: you are not inclined to make hasty conclusions. Ambivalent thinking is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, you can spend ages choosing between kefir and fermented baked milk. On the other hand, you have the ability to see the world from multiple perspectives and judge more wisely.

How to learn ambivalent thinking

Learning to think ambivalently is quite difficult, especially if you are prone to radical judgments. But this will help you see the situation from all sides and not rush to conclusions. Therefore, it’s still worth learning gray thinking, and here’s how you can do it.

1. Stop judging the world harshly

2. Think about the event or phenomenon in perspective

Consider phenomena, events and concepts from the point of view of time. Determine their significance, taking into account both the good and the bad.

3. Accept that you are not always right.

Accept your opponent's point of view. Try to believe that he knows the truth and you don’t.

4. Teach yourself that truth is ambiguous.

Look at the problem from all sides. Accept a different opinion. Remember how, and try to take at least a step towards ambivalent thinking.

Brian Tracy

To my wife Barbara, who taught me the value of love and family.

You are my main support and my greatest inspiration.

If you are ready to put in the effort to rise to a new level of spiritual development and achieve great results, then now you have in your hands the road map necessary for this. Here is the DNA of your future. All you need to do to build a great future is read this book, decide how you are going to apply the author's advice to your own life, make and write a plan, and then move forward with enthusiasm and implement everything you have planned.

I have to admit, I'm one of Brian's biggest fans. I know him well, his brilliant work and the extraordinary results he has achieved. Moreover, I am one of his close friends and colleagues. We worked together on many forums, met and talked several times.

Brian is one of the world's most remarkable thinkers on the topic of inner development and personal success. I already know - I have sold more than 82 million books that help people realize their inner reserves.

In the book “Change your thinking and you will change your life” shows you how to unlock your extraordinary spiritual potentials and release the incredible powers hidden within you. You will learn to attract into your life all the people and resources that you need to achieve any goal you set.

Once you start getting amazing new results using these concepts and ideas, you will be amazed at what you can do. These are exactly the principles that all winners, millionaires and self-made leaders adhere to.

This book will teach you how to achieve great success little by little, and you will eventually master the process easily and effortlessly. This success strategy is so logical, fun and ultimately so effective and comprehensively useful that it will ultimately improve your performance tremendously.

Since you have to think one way or another, why don't you think big and achieve big results?

Brian is truly a shining figure in the world of speakers and writers. He learned to think big and achieved amazing results both for himself and for many hundreds of thousands of people. Brian's intelligence in this book will inspire you to achieve the same success, or even greater.

Get ready to take one of the greatest exploration expeditions into the last and greatest of the unknown lands - your mind! You are about to experience the most exciting feelings.

It took me many years of work, reading, learning and experience to write this book. Many people have contributed to my intellectual development and have been my invisible guides in helping me assemble the twelve chapters of this book into a coherent whole. First of all, I would like to thank my friend Mark Victor Hansen, who many years ago introduced me to Emmett Fox, perhaps the most remarkable spiritual thinker of the 20th century. Ernest Holmes, founder of the Science of the Mind, opened my eyes and heart to the incredible universal potential that lies within every human being and is revealed when that person decides to change the way they think and live. Great spiritual teachers such as Charles Fillmore, Neville, Eric Butterworth, Wayne Dyer and Roberto Assagioli have had a profound impact on my thinking.

I would also like to thank those great success thinkers who have had such an invaluable influence on me and the world at large: Napoleon Hill, Maxwell Maltz, Claude Bristol, David Schwartz, W. Clement Stone, Earl Nightingale, Jim Rawne, Zig Ziglar, Dennis Wortley and Charlie Jones.

Business thinkers such as Peter Drucker, Andrew Grove, Ken Blanchard, Warren Bennis, Tom Peters, Nido Quibane, and Marshall Goldsmith have greatly enriched me with their ideas and concepts.

I would like to thank my publisher, Matthew Holt of John Wiley and Sons, for his continued support during the creation of my book and his constant encouragement during the many months it took to write and publish it.

I am equally grateful to my wonderful wife, Barbara, and our wonderful children, Christina, Michael, David, and Catherine, for their support and patience during the long hours I took away from them to finish this book.

There is nothing on Earth that is not available to you - once you accept the fact that you can have it.

Robert Collier

The truth about you

You are an amazingly good person. You deserve a wonderful life filled with happiness, success, joy and excitement. You have the right to have fulfilling relationships, good health, meaningful, rewarding work, and be financially independent. These are all your birthrights. Your life should consist of all this.

You were created to achieve success and have high self-esteem, self-esteem and self-respect. You are an extraordinary person; In the entire history of human existence, there has not been and is not a second person exactly like you on Earth. You have amazing untapped talents and abilities that, if properly discovered and applied, can give you everything you could ever want in your life.

You are living in a period of the greatest achievements in human history. There are so many favorable opportunities around you that provide all the advantages to make any of your dreams come true. And the only real limits to what you can become, do, or have are the barriers you create for yourself—through your own thinking. Your future is essentially limitless.

Make it real!

How did you react to the previous three paragraphs? You probably had two reactions. On the one hand, you liked what you read and you really wish it were true for you. But your second reaction was probably partly skeptical and distrustful. But even though you want with all your heart to live your life as a healthy, happy, successful person, when you read these lines, doubts and fears immediately awaken in you, which remind you of the reasons why these dreams and goals may not be impossible for you. Well then, join the crowd!

These are exactly the feelings I experienced many years ago. And although I dreamed of achieving great success in life, I was then ignorant, uneducated and unemployed. I had no idea what could be done to improve my situation. I felt trapped, pressed down on one side by big ideas and limited resources and opportunities. But then I discovered a set of remarkable principles that underlay all the outstanding achievements and achievements throughout the centuries - and my life changed dramatically.

After I tested these laws and principles in my own experience, I began giving lectures and teaching others to apply the same ideas. Since then, I have given more than two thousand talks and four-day seminars in 24 countries, to an audience of more than 2 million listeners. Most of these people were also skeptical when they first heard about the principles of optimism and self-confidence - until they learned and learned what you are about to learn in the following pages. It changed their lives and it will change yours too.

Today we will talk about the 7 most destructive ways of thinking, or rather, we will give advice on how to avoid negativity and bring more joy into life. We will also consider options for exiting the current situation, learn to change our vision of the world and life in general. In this article, I used my own experience, the experience of my friends and good acquaintances, our real actions and actions, which helped to radically change our thoughts and establish a successful life. It is important to understand that it is not possible to achieve success, to become a wealthy and independent person, without developing spiritually, without changing yourself, your thoughts and desires.

Many of us are driven into clear and completely meaningless frameworks. We are told what we can do and what not, how we should think and what is wrong, how to act in a certain situation, and even how to think. But it is important to understand that life is millions of opportunities, millions of options for building your life. No one has the right to dictate rules to you, to indicate what you should do today, tomorrow or in a year. Learn to make decisions on your own, because you are the architect of your own happiness. Believe me, a decision made on your own, meaningful and deliberate, will be ten times more pleasant and useful than any imposed advice.

Learning to make the right choice is not an easy task, but it is quite surmountable for each of you. Every day we face dozens of problems and situations, and to solve them we must make a certain choice. Whenever you decide to make a choice, ask yourself a few simple questions: “What consequences will come as a result of my choice?”, “Will this choice bring joy, satisfaction and happiness to me and those it affects?” And as soon as I received two affirmative answers “yes” to these questions, you can confidently make your choice.
What is it for?
The right to choose was given to us by nature. Man is a free being who must decide for himself who, how and why he should be. By making an independent and conscious choice, we bring into our lives a piece of freedom and independence, happiness and joy for the fact that we are able to choose the path of life on our own, without any pressure from the outside.

Many people have a very negative character trait. Either they lack adrenaline, or their vision of the world has already become so distorted that if nothing bad happened during the day, then we become wary. Previously, I repeatedly caught myself thinking that I was constantly looking for a problem where, in principle, there shouldn’t be one, trying to start a conflict out of the blue, instead of peacefully and quickly resolving the situation, often swearing, stirring up a scandal and a storm of negative emotions. It is clear that each such situation leaves its mark, makes an imprint on the rest of the day. Then you walk around, replay the past in your head, and argue with yourself. What positive things are we talking about here? A terrible state that many create for themselves.
Now, when the worldview and vision of everything that is happening has begun to change, I often remember the Chinese wisdom: “If you cannot solve a problem, then you should not focus on it, and if you can, then don’t worry.”

How to deal with such a situation?
Personally, I have used many methods. If I saw that a conflict was brewing, that they were exaggerating the problem out of the blue, then I tried not to be a participant, I simply correctly diverted the conversation to the side or ignored the conversation.
If I felt that I was starting to inflate the problem, I asked myself the question: “What will this change? Who will benefit from a spoiled mood? The understanding that nothing good would come from a quarrel, that the mood and desire to do something would disappear for half a day, stopped me from doing stupid things.
There is another very interesting and instructive proverb: “When you argue with an idiot, are you sure that he is not doing the same thing?” Believe that in an emotional argument or quarrel you will not prove anything. Everyone has their own ego and it is not going to give one iota. The best solution is to save your nerves and protect yourself from negativity.
Tip No. 2 is that you should not be a conflict person, you should not create and maintain a quarrel, perceive everything as it is, and at the same time approach everything with understanding and positivity.

Another piece of advice that will help you achieve success faster is that you should not be afraid of changes and changes in your own life. As they say, a long journey begins with a small step, and if you are afraid to take this step, then it will be impossible to change anything.
You often hear: “I want to change my life, earn more, travel and develop, but at the same time I’m afraid to leave my job, because then I will lose stability and income.” This kind of thinking drags you down into a quagmire of uncertainty and fear, and the longer you feed on such a thought, the more difficult it will be to get out of such a swamp. If you decide to do something, decide to change your life, then don’t be afraid to give up everything, start life from scratch, turn the page of history and confidently, with big steps, enter a new life.
I once read a brilliant statement by Mark Twain, which was very strongly engraved in my memory: “In 20 years, you will regret more the things you didn’t do than the things you did do. Therefore, raise the anchors and sail away from the quiet harbor. Catch the fair wind in your sails. Use it. Dream. Make discoveries."
I realized that everything is in our hands, that we really shouldn’t be afraid to leave our comfort zone, we need to be confident in what we are doing and what we are striving for

Another piece of advice that will bring great positivity into your life and give you many joyful moments is that you should learn to think more broadly. I used to think that what I feel at the moment, what I have, and what I know is something that has become something that will not change in the near future. But there is no end to delusions. What you have now, thoughts, feelings, material and spiritual world, exists only now. It’s hard to even say what will happen in a day, week, month, not to mention years. Everything in the world is changing, and so are you. Therefore, understand one truth: if something goes wrong today, then tomorrow everything can change dramatically, and be a hundred times better and more successful. Comfort yourself with this thought, bring joy, hope and positivity into your life.

Often, when they tell us something, share knowledge or useful information, we say that we know this, there is no need to listen to this and waste our time. I used to be like that too, I thought that I had already seen so much, that I had read enough books, that I could tell myself whatever you wanted.
But there is no need to build such barriers. Back in ancient Greece, Socrates said: “The more I know, the more I realize that I know nothing.”
Be open to new knowledge, joyfully accept it, get help from other people. Remember that new knowledge is new opportunities that you must use to achieve your goal as effectively as possible.

Envy is a terrible character quality that eats you away from the inside. She is like a little devil who sits on your shoulder and whispers all sorts of nasty things into your ear. The more you envy, the more negativity comes into your life. Learn to perceive the successes of others differently, as an incentive, as a goal, as an example to follow. Stop judging and envying. Even if you know that a person has achieved something through dishonest methods, you should not focus your attention on this. Believe me, the fact that you envy, complain, and condemn will only be worse for you, and not for the person in whose direction you are directing the negativity.
How to deal with envy?
Envy comes from the ego. It is not satisfied with what you have, it wants more, while comparing you with someone else. Stop it. The only person you can compare with is with yourself in the past. Look at what you have achieved, what you have learned, thank you for all the experience and opportunities that have come into your life. Remember that you create your own life, build the path to success, and the very first brick is positive thinking.

At first this may seem like strange, even absurd advice. What is it like to think less? This phrase should not be taken literally. I also used to think a lot, analyze, calculate, try to write down all the steps, predict the consequences. This all took a lot of time. The more we think, the more different obstacles appear in our heads. The question arises: “What will happen if I choose this option?”, and instead of taking it and trying it, we begin to build schemes in our heads, think up various situations, most of which incredibly frighten us and stop us from taking decisive action.
How to deal with this?
It is important to realize that you control your thoughts, and they do not control you. Try to think less, especially where you can get everything done in a few minutes. Be decisive and confident in your actions. It’s better to do it once and be convinced of your conjectures than to spend months wondering how everything will turn out.

Positive thinking as a path to success: my personal conclusions

So, I have already said more than once in the article that everything starts with a thought, and it must be positive. Learn to control your emotions, try to protect yourself and all your loved ones from negativity, do not create conflicts and do not be participants in them. Believe me, when you begin to change your thinking, your consciousness will change along with it, and then the whole world around you. Many people don’t believe it until they try it, and then they say with an open mind that positive thinking works wonders.

Instructions

A person’s thinking influences the circumstances around him. If the associations formed in your head are negative, then everything around you is also negative. If someone is sure that the world is cruel, then it will be so, because everything is embodied. The “boomerang rule” is triggered, which states that everything that is broadcast into the world is returned to the person without distortion. Accordingly, if events are not going well now, it is because of the thoughts that existed earlier.

To change your life, start by transforming yourself. First you need to understand what is in the subconscious, what is reflected outside. Conscious thoughts are only 5% of all existing thoughts. And what's in that hidden part? To understand, you will have to perform several exercises. Start by dividing your life into areas, such as work, money, personal life, relationships with children, communication with parents, friendships, etc. Everyone has their own list, but it’s better to make a more detailed one.

Take one of the written areas and start writing down everything you think about it, all the thoughts that appear in your head. There is no need to evaluate them, they can be beautiful, evil, and even offensive. Just write down all the associations that come to your mind. For example, about work: “work doesn’t bring in income”, “I always work for others”, “work is literally slavery”, “I don’t like my job”, etc. You will have phrases that you often repeat, about which sometimes you think. They are the ones who are embodied around, they are the ones who work and shape reality. You need to do this for each area in order to understand what exactly is stored inside you.

When you have a list, study it carefully. Some phrases suit you, these thoughts are positive and useful. But there are also those that I want to fix. We need to work with them. Come up with their opposites. It’s better to take 5-6 statements at first, no more, but gradually you will work through everything. Replace these phrases with positive ones. For example, instead of “I don’t like my job,” write down “I enjoy going to work,” and instead of “I don’t earn much,” write “my earnings suit me, there’s enough money for everything.”

Combine the resulting statements into one phrase that is easy to remember. Write it down somewhere you can see it and read it every time you see it. These are affirmations that need to be repeated constantly to replace old attitudes in the head. Remember them every day and, when you have a moment, say them to yourself or out loud. You need to do this at least 3 times a day to get results. The new principles will begin to work in 40 days, and you will immediately notice how your life is changing.