Self Creation Quotes

All you are or ever shall become is the result of the use to which you put your mind.

Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.

Live today. Let go of your attachment to your past as an excuse for your life conditions today. You are the product of the choices you are making right now.

A productive and happy life is not something you find; it is something you make.

Lift up your eyes uponThis day breaking for you.Give birth againTo the dream.Women, children, men,Take it into the palms of your hands.Mold it into the shape of your mostPrivate need. Sculpt it intoThe image of your most public self.Lift up your heartsEach new hour holds new chancesFor a new beginning.

You are the sum total of your dominating or most prominent thoughts.

Every man must form himself as a particular being, seeking, however, to attain that general idea of which all mankind are constituents.

Dazzling and tremendous how quick the sun-rise would kill me, if I could not now and always send sun-rise out of me.

Create yourself. Be yourself your poem.

No one ever finds life worth living - one has to make it worth living.

Active, successful natures act, not according to the maxim, "know thyself," but as if prompted by the commandment: will a self, and so become a self.

We are what our thoughts have made us

We become what we think about all day long. The qustion is, "What do you think about?"

Life isn't about finding yourself; it's about creating yourself. So live the life you imagined.

Instead of killing and dying in order to produce the being that we are not, we have to live and let live in order to create what we are.

Man is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art.

You are now at a crossroads. This is your opportunity to make the most important decision you will ever make. Forget your past. Who are you now? Who have you decided you really are now? Don't think about who you have been. Who are you now? Who have you decided to become? Make this decision consciously. Make it carefully. Make it powerfully.

Creating Your Character is Like an Artist Creating a Sculpture

You have to assemble your life yourself - action by action.

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

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

Every man is what he is, because of the DOMINATING THOUGHTS which he permits to occupy his mind.

Every spirit makes its house, but as afterwards the house confines the spirit, you had better build well.

But, if you have nothing at all to create, then perhaps you create yourself.

As you think, so shall you become.

Man is made or unmade by himself. In the armory 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.

What we speak becomes the house we live in.

We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bone.

I be off the slave ships, building pyramids, writing my own hieroglyphs

A man is literally what he thinks.

We, however, want to become those we are--human beings who are new, unique, incomparable, who give themselves laws, who create themselves. To that end we must become the best learners and discoverers of everything that is lawful and necessary in the world: we must become physicists in order to be able to be creators in this sense--while hitherto all valuations and ideals have been based on ignorance of physics or were constructed so as to contradict it. Therefore: long live physics! And even more so that which compels us to turn to physics--our honesty!

I believe that you tend to create your own blessings. You have to prepare yourself so that when opportunity comes, you're ready.

Who are you now? Who have you decided to become? Make this decision consciously. Make it carefully. Make it powerfully. Then act upon it.

You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself be.

A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.

Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold it's great proportions.

If your thought is a rose, you are a rose garden; and if it is a thistle, you are fuel for the fire.

Our statute is a currency which we stamp with our own portrait.

I have created a life by stepping out of the box of people's limitations. I call it zigging when others are zagging.

I created myself. I have taught myself so much.

What I learned at a very early age was that I was responsible for my life. And as I became more spiritually conscious, I learned that we all are responsible for ourselves, that you create your own reality by the way you think and therefore act. You cannot blame your parents, your circumstances, because you are NOT your circumstances. You are your possibilities. If you know that, you can do anything.

One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art.

As he thinks, so he is; as he continues to think, so he remains.

You are who you are at this moment because of everything that's ever happened to you, everything that you carried forward for yourself.

We are the creators of our own happiness and suffering, for everything originates in the mind.

You become what you think about

Everything you do is based on the choices you make. It's not your parents, your past relationships, your job, the economy, the weather, an argument or your age that is to blame. You and only you are responsible for every decision and choice you make. Period.

Build your own pyramids, write your own hieroglyphs.

Neither your family nor your culture gave you your personality. You created it yourself.

Life is a matter of choices, and every choice you make makes you.

We have to live and let live in order to create what we are.

Mind is the master weaver, both of the inner garment of character and the outer garment of circumstance.